Sept. 12, 2003
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The 14th-ranked Kentucky women’s soccer team scored in the first minute of the game but could muster nothing further, as 12th-ranked BYU scored the equalizer in the first half and the game-winner late in the second half to win, 2-1. The Cats drop to 2-2-1 while BYU improves to 4-0-1.
Kentucky wasted little time getting on the board as Jen Weakley booted a loose ball into the goal only 30 seconds into the game. The Cougars answered in the 24th minute when Aleisha Rose drilled a line drive from 17 yards out into the upper left corner of the goal to knot the tally at one.
The Cats and Cougars exchanged near misses throughout the second half, but Lydia Ojuka’s 85th-minute header from six yards out beat UK goalkeeper Liz Butler to secure the Cougar victory.
Kentucky returns to action in the finale of the UK Invitational when the Cats take on Rutgers, who fell to Iowa in the first-half of the doubleheader, also by a 2-1 count. The Wildcats and Scarlet Knights will do battle at 7:30 p.m. at the UK Soccer Complex. BYU and Iowa will precede the UK-Rutgers match at 5 p.m.
