Tulane University
Memphis
Women's Soccer Drops Heartbreaker to Memphis
Sep 29, 2000 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 29, 2000
NEW ORLEANS, La. - - Memphis' Tori Winslett scored with just under three minutes remaining to lift the Lady Tigers to a 3-2 win over the Tulane women's soccer team at the McWilliams Athletic Complex on Friday.
Winslett's winner came off a cross from Cadice Spinolas after ball had grazed off the head of a Green Wave defender. Spinolas picked up the loose ball on the left flank and whipped in a cross that Winslett headed home from six-yards out.
The goal came less than three minutes after Tulane (5-6-0, 2-3-0 C-USA) had stormed back from a 2-0 deficit to even the score at 2-2.
After a scoreless first half, Memphis (6-5-0, 2-3-0 C-USA) took a 1-0 lead in the 52nd minute. Against the run of play, Memphis got a shot that was saved by Tulane goalkeeper Jaclyn Urso. But the ball slipped just out of her grasp at the top of the 18-yard box, where UM's Jessica Gjertsen deflected the rebound off Urso and into the goal. Memphis added a second goal 18 minutes later, with the strike once again coming against the run of play. Gjertsen picked up a loose ball, took a touch and blasted a 25-yard shot from the left flank over Urso's head and into the goal.
Tulane's sustained pressure finally paid off in the 75th minute. Jacque Gruber's initial shot hit the post before sophomore Megan Stack scored the rebound. The Green Wave nearly evened the score just one minute later, but Gruber's 30-yard rocket of a shot hit the cross bar at the 75:58 mark. Tulane finally pulled level in the 87th minute, with Stack scoring her second goal of the night. Tiffany Lawson started the play with a flip throw-in. Kelley Tinsley's header struck the cross bar and dropped straight to Stack, who again finished the rebound for her seventh goal of the season.
Tulane returns to action on Sunday, Oct. 1, as the Green Wave play host to Conference USA rival UAB at the McWilliams Athletic Complex.
