Soccer tops Detroit, 3-1, to pull ahead of .500 mark

By Steve Lansdale

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas soccer team got goals from sophomores Katie Glenn and Alexa Adams, but it was a measure of good fortune that gave the Longhorns the decisive score in a 3-1 victory over Detroit at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.

Glenn put Texas ahead, 1-0, when she headed in an assist from Julia Dyche in the final second of the first half.

“We had 10 or so seconds left, and there’s never really too little time to score,” Glenn said. “She (Dyche) just served it up, and I just tried to get something on it.”

Texas head coach Angela Kelly said Glenn’s goal [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level2)]at the end of the first half was critical to the Longhorns’ ability to get the victory.

“Well, you know, I’m really proud of the fact that we were able to score that first goal in the last 10 seconds of the half — it’s something that we really, really highlight and talk about is closing out a half and every half, the beginning and the closing of each half,” Kelly said. “The ball was in our end with 20 seconds left and Katie makes a 50-yard sprinting run. Julia has the capacity to receive the ball and get it into the danger area and then Katie was there to challenge, and there you have it. What a different feeling, to take a goal into the half. And then, you know I thought we had moments of doing some good things. Some good individual performances, we strung together a couple of good series. I would have loved to have had a couple of more finishes in the back of the net, but overall it’s two wins on a weekend, and that’s becoming increasingly difficult to do in our league and the NCAA.”

The Longhorns got what proved to be the decisive goal in the 57^th minute when Emma Jett drove a low free kick toward the goal from the right corner. The ball struck Detroit’s Kaitlan Vossan, who was attempting to clear the ball for the Titans but instead deposited it into her team’s net.

Texas got what proved to be an insurance goal in the 73 minute when Adams buried her second goal of the season off assists from Nakia Graham and Tecora Turner with a header off the goalpost. Detroit got on the scoreboard on a goal by Anna Mindling in the 87^th minute, but it was too little, too late.

Adams said that after the Longhorns (2-1-0) got shut out in a season-opening loss to Seattle, they didn’t stray from their approach in the offensive end, and the results have showed over the last two games.

“I think we worked really hard this week at practice, and I think we came out with a better mentality this week, so that’s why we were able to perform well in the offensive third,” she said. “I think the whole team played really well and were able to get the ball to us so we were able to score.”
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