PBP: Washington State 2018

68' 0-1 ASU cross from ~3m wide right to 2m 6-right, Dahline dives out to catch as another ASU player hops to flick. Dahline takes laces to the face? Momentary pause, Dahline adjusts to the pain but waves off treatment and resumes.

68' 0-1 Drop ball at circle top mid-right, #12 Jones gets shielded off and body-bumps, called for a foul. Both sides appreciate this ref

69' 0-1 ASU fk driven to arc top, deflects off WSU and over endline left.

69' 0-1 ASU left ck, bounces high a few times in box, Dahline punches out twice. ASU regain at ~27m arc right, ground pass to 9m mid-right. Douglas beats her defender outside-in, touches to 8m 6-right, Dahline comes out to 6m and sprawl-blocks with strong abs.

70' | Huge play by @m_uh_d to come off her line and take away a golden scoring opportunity by the Sun Devils | 1-0 WSU#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/myCqMIaO4p

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 18, 2018

 

72' 0-1 Off the restart, Bennett collides with #_, plants wrong, goes down holding left shin. Stoppage, trainer does a stability test As she departs, yellow card on Bennett.

73' 1-1 ASU fk at 24m ~center, #27 Schimmer shoots right instep chip over/past wall, beyond Dahline's dive, just inside left post.

74' 1-1 Double yellow card to ASU #27 Schimmer and WSU #20 McLyn.

 

78' 2-1 #12 Jones collects at midfield circle left, sloppy touch lets Delgado challenge and poke ball through feet. Douglas counters through 30m center, diagonal pass down wide left to Purfield outrunning (fr.) Hernandez-Repreza caught way up -- meanwhile, #14 Van Deursen runs unmarked up left post lane. Purfield crosses one-touch from box top left to 7m 1/3 left, Van Deursen one-touch right outstep flick across mouth past Dahline, into back right edge high. We've been not-sharp and out-touched in midfield for much of the day, not disrupting their possessions and letting ourselves get disrupted. Also, ASU are just flat out-running us in our own box

🚨GOOOOOAAAAALLL🚨

Sun Devils take the lead off a goal by @EvavanDeursen_ in the 78th minute! #TeamFirst pic.twitter.com/fusYK09kza

— Sun Devil Soccer (@SunDevilSoccer) October 18, 2018

79' 2-1 ASU cross from 5m wide right to 2m 1/6 left, hop-lean header into back left high. Offside, no goal.

 

79' 2-1 WSU attack misses behind goal. RB(?) McLyn is down at ~30m right touch. Trainer, she limps off.

80' 2-1 Delgado runs at ~30m arc left, O'Neill fouls her down hard. No card.

80' 3-1 #34 Boyle fk at 30m arc left, off crossbar center and bounces straight up high -- and #9 Douglas and #26 Stephens are the only players strolling past spot Douglas chests ball down at 4m 3-right, swings right roundhouse half-volley at 1m 3-right, Dahline blocks, ball skitters to 0.1m center, Stephens volleys into roof. Lackadaisical effort on this one play, Dahline did her part twice and got no help.

🚨GOOOOOAAAAALLL🚨

Sun Devils extend the the lead with a goal from @NinjaNat97! #TeamFirst pic.twitter.com/GZ5jUBzYuA

— Sun Devil Soccer (@SunDevilSoccer) October 18, 2018

 

86' 3-1 Heavy collision just past midfield circle right. Haro stays down on back, has difficulty breathing?

Long stoppage, trainers stabilize her head HC Shulenberger comes over, EMT brings the backpack. Police officer kneels next to her Seven staff, two with walkie-talkies, huddle around Haro, who still has not gotten up. Her feet are moving, so there's that.

Almost 10' into stoppage: the cart drives up behind bench, somebody carries out the backboard. Family member is on-field, getting a group hug. This is way beyond a typical injury ...

 

87' 3-1 20' into stoppage, still a huddle around Haro not moving. Camera pans out to show ... three EMTs walking slowly from ASU's end zone to join the treatment huddle.

Two more join, carrying another backboard. ASU start up a circle passing drill.

WSU group-kneel in a ring at their sideline. This could take a while.

 

Haro's (sr.) roommate O'Neill has been in the huddle throughout.

Neck brace ASU walks diagonally across the field to WSU's left corner ... and exits field. They ceased their circle drill, out of respect.

Backboard. Haro folds her arms, so she has motor control. The huddle seems to be protocol: not stressed, not rushed, everybody is calm. Nonetheless, we'll do the full protocol.

 

~30' into stoppage. The ambulance drives directly onto the field, does a U-turn around center circle. OK, that's just part of the full protocol.

From replay (not shown), #3 Miniefield stuck a foot in to challenge Haro's ball, Haro tripped over it and drove own head into ground.

Haro is loaded into ambulance. ASU returns to field, all line up across ASU's arc top for ... a WSU free kick. Shift brains back into game mode.

Ambulance departs through ASU's right corner.

 

87' 3-1 Yellow card on #3 Miniefield, and a brief chat.

87' 3-1 WSU fk at circle top box right, to 16m center, Purfield heads away. WSU dumps back into box top center, headed away again. ASU dump down wide left, Dahline goes all the way to (her) right touch to stop ball.

89' 3-1 Hancock serves to box top center, ASU clears and lumps it down right touch.

89' 3-1 WSU chip to 14m center, Panas comes out and hops to catch. #29 Overland, looking up at ball, tuck-hops recklessly, delivers an air-to-air head-on chest bump, knocks Panas down flat. Foul, yellow card on Overland.

 

FT 3-1. WSU looked below-par in midfield all day, couldn't make clean touches to beat/avoid pressure, lost many possessions to basic close pressure, and lost track of runners in our 1/3. We haven't scored a teamwork ping goal all year like ASU's 2nd goal: somehow they have more combination threats than we do. Or maybe we just blew coverage on that play from a mental lapse, and they're not really that much better than our defense should be.

Our offense remains a work in progress (which is why I never took #7 seriously). We made numerous wistful crosses with heads down, hoping for a bounce, instead of crossing to a target already there (c.f. USC, and ASU's disallowed goal). That's been the next hurdle for our offense to gain some reliability, and always was.

 

2018/10/21 Sun 12:00 PDT:
(+9=2-4, +2=2-3 = 7th) Arizona - Washington State #22 (+10=0-4, +3=0-4 = 6th)
Stream: Arizona live stream (because ... wvb on Pac-12)
Stats: StatBroadcast #3647
Tweets: ArizonaSoccer | WSUCougarSoccer

Back to work where popcorn is eaten one cluster at a time

This match runs simultaneously with wvb at home vs. UCLA, which I shall attend live, so no pbp today. In general, Pac-12 wvb and woso collide every Sunday this year, and today the Pac-12 channels have booked 4/4 wvb (not counting 1 on ESPN2) and 2/6 woso, not including ours.

WSU's other social media (Fb? Ig?) reports that Haro is OK. We picked up other leg dings on Thursday, which may cause further line-up juggling.

For those fans wondering, Maddy is doing well. Thanks for your concerns and thoughts. #GoCougs

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 20, 2018

 

Two weeks behind, catching up!
WSU played at Arizona without FW #13 Elyse Bennett, LB #19 Haro, and RB #20 Aaqila McLyn -- all dinged during the ASU match. The midfield looked almost usual, but ... Igor, bring us a backline! Yes, master, yes!

12' 0-0 Weaver does her cut-right-to-right-foot-shot pattern again. Note how empty their box is: we have no runners up, so this was probably already the result of a long forward pass to Weaver that created a quick 3-v-4. In that light, it's not a bad idea.

12' | @morgan_weaver8 decides to give it a go from distance, just missing over the top | 0-0#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/mQa1wOxWqe

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 21, 2018

61' 1-0 Arizona FW #13 Hannah Clifford(?) sprints past RB Gomera-Stevens(?) caught way up, already 3m behind her at 33m box left. RCB Hancock tries an early slide-tackle, Clifford mini-chips ball over her shins, chases in stride, now she's clean behind both of them. Meanwhile, Arizona have two 1-v-1s sprinting through arc left and arc top right post lanes -- they cleverly run a weave (criss-cross), both gaining lateral separation behind their unsuspecting defenders. Clifford rolls a ground cross from 4m box left to 2m 1-left, #_ stretch-pokes as GK Thompson slides out and blocks ball off her hamstrings. Ball leaks out to #7 Brynn Moga unmarked at 5m left post, she settles and pokes through legs into 1/4 left back low. I like Arizona's weave in our box because it first requires that there be two persons weaving

Last game's hero does it again! Cats up by a goal! pic.twitter.com/h2SOpsRgxT

— Arizona Soccer (@ArizonaSoccer) October 21, 2018

 

69' 1-1 WSU left ck (kicker not shown; I wonder who takes them with Haro out), to 8m 3-left, headed out through box top right post. #24 O'Neill chases it left-to-right, touches past 1 to 13m box right, shoots 2nd touch right foot to right post low, and it somehow skips in past GK Burdett. Possibly she wrong-footed herself because she was already leaning away from the much tinier window?

HIGHLIGHT | GOOOAAAALLL Maegen O'Neill with the equalizer in the 69', turning a broken play into GoalD | 1-1#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/Ujc3GUfsNx

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 21, 2018

72' 2-1 MF #2 Amanda Porter touches to arc top mid-left, RCB Hancock fronts her 3m off to stop ball, Arizona make 3 cuts toward box. Porter shoots left foot from arc top mid-left, golaaaaaaaazo into left 90 over GK Thompson's dive. Welp, can't stop that, just do unto others first and more often.

Amanda Porter with an absolute rocket to put the Cats back on top! pic.twitter.com/twlwi7qwbh

— Arizona Soccer (@ArizonaSoccer) October 21, 2018

FT 2-1. WSU's patchwork defense gave up some runs and soft spots.

 

2018/10/25 Thu 19:00 PDT:
(+10=0-5, +3=0-5) Washington State - California (+5=2-9, +1=1-6)
WSU slips out of all 3 rankings. It was fun while it lasted, and now we know what it takes. LB #19 Maddy Haro returns! FW #13 Bennett and RB #20 McLyn are still out.

13' 0-1 #32 Paige Metayer dribbles on a counter(?) to arc top right, as WSU's back line are backpedaling into own box. #_ runs a cross left-to-right in front of Metayer, opens lateral separation from CB #16 Hancock to 16m 6-right -- Hancock lets her go and fronts Metayer until Minniss slides across, then Hancock leaves to cover #_. Metayer jukes left past Minniss not fully in front of her, shields her off to 16m center, shoots left instep pull across mouth under Thompson's left hand, into 1/4 right back low. Good decisive finish off a team-wide speed attack.

What. A. Goal. 😳

@paigemetayer puts @CalWSoc on the board.

Watch more on our app: https://t.co/UMF5hUwp7c pic.twitter.com/dqrUhbAIqT

— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) October 26, 2018

15' 1-1 #10 Alger settles at circle top right, pokes left outstep into Weaver's stride, 1 step behind #23 Clark. Weaver touches twice to 15m 6-right, shoots right instep off crossbar 1/6 right. Ball bounces down to Haro at 12m left post, she touches right around 2 defenders, passes ball just inside left post low, past a lunging foot and GK Zodikoff's dive.

HIGHLIGHT | The Cougs top offensive threats do it again as @morgan_weaver8 gets the ball rolling and @maddyharo finishes it off #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/pcXNuK0NFZ

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 26, 2018

 

37' 2-1 Weaver sprint-presses the LB, she turns and rushes a backpass to own box top left -- and Weaver continues her own pursuit run centerward. #4 Smith taps one-touch toward #32 Metayer -- #14 Myers lunges and intercepts at arc top mid-right. Quick turn and dink pass to box top mid-right, Weaver settles with zero rebound, rearranges feet, 2nd touch left instep shot dives just inside right post low, past Zodikoff's dive. Wow, that was four perfect touches in a row.

HIGHLIGHT | A calm finish to the near post for @morgan_weaver8 after @Lysha_Nicole09 steals the clearance #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/oftaRdv3BO

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 26, 2018

43' 2-2 #_ taps square left to #7 Maggie Bell unmarked at 30m box left -- meanwhile, #17 Abigail Kim posts up at 17m center, 1-v-1 with inside position on LCB #23 Minniss, with RCB #16 Hancock playing zone at arc tangent left. Bell and Kim recognize this pattern from training, instant chip to 10m 2/5 left for Kim cutting alongside Minniss. Thompson charges out to 6m, Kim slides down and volley-pokes under Thompson's right hand, into 1/4 left back low. Perfect connection into space -- maybe front Kim and change that lob, or play a straight double-team on the sole central striker.

.@abi_kim17 with the equalizer. 😤👊

Watch more on our app: https://t.co/UMF5hUwp7c pic.twitter.com/LMUKs3Qkhp

— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) October 26, 2018

HT 2-2.

 

46' 3-2 #19 Haro fk at circle top wide left, sailed low over the jumping scrum to 8m center. #10 Alger(?), facing away, misses a leaning header-down try, ball reflects off her chest down to 10m. #9 Pulver taps ball rightward, Alger leans back and screens off a defender. Pulver touches to 9m right post, kicks right instep across mouth through a maze of defenders, just inside left post low. Haro's 12th assist is WSU's all-time record!

HIGHLIGHT | 1st goal of the season for @SydneyPulver who cleans up the mess in front of goal #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/tM8BbvDNyh

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 26, 2018

82' 4-2 Weaver does a dragback-reverse past box top right to arc top mid-right -- meanwhile, WSU have two 1-v-1s posted up inside 10m. Weaver plants to shoot left instep -- but plant foot slips out? Bullet ground pass deflects off a defender's foot near spot, off #10 Alger's torso at 8m 1/4 left, sits perfectly in her wheelhouse. Alger instantly spin-scythes right foot across mouth, under Zodikoff's dive into back right low. She didn't use her right foot to stop the ball, so it was already up and ready to swing.

HIGHLIGHT | Alger finishes off her 2nd goal of the year, picking up the "pass" from @morgan_weaver8 #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/9Ijs8HK7uw

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 26, 2018

FT 4-2.

 

2018/10/28 Sun 14:00 PDT
(+11=0-5, +4=0-5) Washington State - Stanford #1 (+15=1-0, +8=1-0)
Attd. 921 (including me on the hill). It rained earlier in the morning, but the field and hilltop were only slightly damp. Senior Day! Both teams were missing starters:

Stanford: DF/MF #10 Tierna Davidson (ankle), FW #3 Sophia Smith (leg)
WSU: MF #24 Maegan O'Neill (during the Cal match?), RB #20 Aaqila McLyn, FW #13 Elise Bennett, +1 too long ago to even rehash by now

Summary: Stanford ran amok, but but didn't score on passes. WSU defended valiantly and got forward infrequently, but didn't score on passes. So ... they scored on a solo shot, and we scored on their pass

02' 0-0 #20 Macario chips from 27m box left to 9m right post, three Cardinal stroll past the high trap line onside. Harber chests ball down to 6m 2-right, half-volley blocked by GK Thompson's chest. Kuhlmann collects at 7m right post, shot blocked off Haro's inside knee. Ball skitters out to Harber at 2m 6-right, tight shot kick-saved by Thompson falling forward away from goal, shielded over endline right for an early ck.

2' | @JojoHarber is denied by a fantastic save after @catarinamacario picked her out from the left.
🌲: 0
🐾: 0#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/4tU45UJWif

— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) October 28, 2018

41' 0-1 Macario crosses from 15m box right to 1m 2-left, Xiao back-cuts #_ and golf-volleys across mouth not goalward. Minniss follows to 0.5m 3-right, mis-hits her clearance low, Haro donkey-flicks it off Madison Haley's head, ball pops up and drops to 18m mid-right. Macario thigh-juggles ball twice, juggle-volleys right outstep bend across mouth past Haro ducking aside, perfect lob over Thompson's dive, dropping into left side netting low. I don't mind that one too much because Macario evidently spent her formative years learning ball-control tricks like that, and she has to be in school somewhere in the world Even Ratcliffe was amazed because it's nothing he taught. Somewhere, Heath nods while juggling a ball through downtown traffic. (N.B. I'm sitting just above the C-O gap on the hill)

41' | Speechless. It's the @catarinamacario show on @Pac12Network with Stanford in the lead. #SCtop10
🌲: 1
🐾: 0#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/iBFeDDtRkk

— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) October 28, 2018

HT 0-1. WSU 6(1)-(7)19 shots(sog), 2-4 corners, 1-2 fouls.

Clouds blot out the sun's meager warmth, and the wind picks up, so I go from on the half-tarp to tarp burrito.

 

45' 0-1 Addendum: Stanford overload down box left, Xiao rounds Thompson to ~2m 2-left, pulls her shot too far with net empty, off left post and bounces away. Haley collects, shot blocked, HT.

48' 0-1 Macario creeps to 30m arc right, fires a vertical ground pass through two lines to 14m arc right for #16 Goad timing her cut past #23 Minniss playing the high line. Goad follows to 10m arc right as Thompson slides out through 6m, stretch one-touch left outstep flick blocked by Thompson sliding. Ball rebounds to 12m 1/4 right, DiBiasi trails unmarked and shoots one-touch right instep past Thompson to 1/3 right. Sub RB #7 Elaily Hernandez-Repreza, tracking back from box (our) right, hops and volleys clear over right 90. Her 1st goalline save, of many we teach at WSU

48' | What a defensive effort by the Cougs on the scramble | 0-0#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/jeRjcHMQQI

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 28, 2018

73' 0-1 #3 Gomera-Stevens counters to 27m center, pauses, passes inside-out toward #14 Myers at 17m mid-left -- meanwhile, Weaver spins past 2 to box top right post, momentarily unnoticed. Myers wins a 55-45 challenge, gets to 17m left post -- Weaver starts her lean-and-cut up right post lane, Myers flicks left outstep ground pass through spot to 7m right post. GK Jahansouz charges out and dives, Weaver chases and lunges, Weaver pokes ball into Jahansouz's chest (shin to ball first), then Jahansouz impales own chest upon Weaver's cleats. Weaver comes up limping with jammed right foot, Jahansouz stays down with -- left knee pain? Stoppage, trainers, yellow card on Weaver. Jahansouz resumes.

73' | A game of inches, the connections were there the finish just out of reach | 1-0 STAN#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/CT6ksLXtCU

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 28, 2018

 

77' 1-1 RCB #15 Cook follows a long bouncing ball up centerline with Weaver in pursuit, Jahansouz steps way above own arc top to 25m(!!) and calls her off -- so Cook veers left to make self available for a pass. Jahansouz telegraphs a one-touch pass (her) left toward #2 Girma -- from the hilltop endzone view (and the tweetcap), we all see Weaver anticipate that pass and veer right early. Jahansouz underhits the pass a bit, Weaver blocks ball into own stride and chases it to arc top mid-right, it's a race to get back in time. Weaver shoots one-touch right instep, just beyond Jahansouz's left hand diving to 7m 3-right, rolls into back right low. That's Stanford's 1st goal conceded in 628'01" and over 1 month, since 09/27 vs. UCLA.

HIGHLIGHT | What a play by the junior. @morgan_weaver8 creating the mistake and depositing it in the back of the net #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/G4WAkSrd39

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) October 28, 2018

88'28" 1-1 Haro right(?) ck, eventually cleared over.
89'30" 1-1 WSU right ck. All wait as Haro runs 40m diagonally from midfield (our) left (her LB spot) to the right corner flag. Upon arrival, she then deliberately delays, showing the play hand signal, probably to ensure no time left for any Stanford counter.
89'50" 1-1 Haro left ck, Stanford heads over, "knowing" there won't be a 3rd.

AER 1-1. I guess that's a decent call: you expect to (have a tiny chance to) win the game outright on 1 scripted ck play, so we left about 4 seconds for pinball action, but not 10 seconds for even Stanford to go 100m. Then you're not planning to need 2 cks, and so on any block, clearance, save, or header over own crossbar, you shrug and accept that the defense held. The fans were howling for us to hurry up and take it with ~30 seconds left, just so we'd have multiple chances to win. If you do essay the only-5-seconds option, you might as well bring GK Thompson up and aim for her unmarked head

 

098' 1-1 Weaver receives at 10m box left, cuts inside between 2 and does her right-foot shot, but Cook knew she would and slide-blocks.

98' | Cougars threaten with a counter, but @whatz_Cookin is there to put a stop to it.
🌲: 1
🐾: 1#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/Yi5rxaMjnR

— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) October 28, 2018

In 2OT, WSU conceded a bit of possession, 0-3 shots (none on frame). With ~1 minute left, we had a throw-in deep in our own box left, and we played conservative and didn't even try to hoof long for a chance at winning.

FT 1-1. WSU 16(5)-(13)34 shots, 5-6 corners, 4-7 fouls. We actually caught up to almost 50% of Stanford's shots. Our younger players were ecstatic with the result. On reflection, even a draw grows in magnitude, because Stanford just doesn't drop points:

- ends Stanford's Pac-12 win streak at 26 matches since 2016/10/06: their first 2 points dropped in >2 years
- WSU's 1st-ever result (W or D) against #1, in 9 tries (6 of those vs. a #1 Stanford)

MF #10 Brianna Alger also got her 1st career save, and some field player (Hancock or Minniss?) got a 3rd, probably on blocked shots. The 3 non-GK saves are a WSU record -- really? We've never blocked 3 shots before? There must be more to that stat than just a routine blocked shot.

 

2018/10/30 Tue:
- Morgan Weaver gets Pac-12 Offensive PotW for scoring vs. Stanford.

Career-high 9️⃣ goals this season. Morgan Weaver helped @WSUCougarSoccer to a win over California and a draw against No. 1 Stanford.

She is this week's #Pac12Soccer Offensive Player of the Week: https://t.co/VWmMJiUfaa pic.twitter.com/cW2jgIxSQS

— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) October 30, 2018

- Rachel Thompson gets Pac-12 Goalkeeper otW for 9 saves vs. Stanford.

Tied a career-high with 9️⃣ saves in the draw against No. 1 Stanford. 💪🏼@WSUCougarSoccer's Rachel Thompson is the #Pac12Soccer Goalkeeper of the Week: https://t.co/VWmMJjbQyK pic.twitter.com/x2g9yWifn5

— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) October 30, 2018

2018/11/02 Fri 19:00 PDT:
(+11=1-5, +4=1-5) Washington State - Washington (+8=1-9, +3=0-7)
Apple Cup! Attd. 1,327, on a pleasantly mild evening. Alas, home wvb was simultaneous , and I have season tickets with family, so I couldn't attend both. I watched a bit on neighboring fans' cell phones

WSU is still without MF O'Neill, FW Bennett, and RB McLyn. Next players up!

11' 1-0 #21 Goff passes to Weaver at 27m mid-left. Weaver backs down #2 Sekyra, cuts inside to 24m arc left, has two runners through arc right and arc top -- shoots right instep hard knuckler to center high, swerving left. GK #0 Ruelas gets hands up late, ball bends her fingers back and continues into center back high.

HIGHLIGHT | What a shot by @morgan_weaver8, set up by Goff with the quick feed up the field #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/HP6zMzre0a

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) November 3, 2018

 

55' 1-0 Yellow card on UW MF #21 Olivia Van der Jagt.

62' 2-0 WSU hoof over midfield mid-left, #2 Seykra chases with Weaver 2m behind. Weaver pulls self alongside at 30m just as Seykra gets a backpass away, hot bouncer to 3m mid-left -- and Weaver continues her sprint-chase. GK Ruelas goes to ball and tries a one-touch tap-back into wheelhouse, but clangs it catastrophically away from her momentum, ball trickles to 5m 6-left. Weaver wins race, one-touch toe-poke under Ruelas's diving fingers, across mouth into back right edge 1/2 high. Awful luck for Ruelas: maybe just settle it rightward and try to hook it up right line, or pass it away into right touch.

HIGHLIGHT | @morgan_weaver8 with her 2nd goal of the game, making things happen #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/6YxBPQ2lBv

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) November 3, 2018

63' 2-1 #13 Pascale Dumesnil faces #7 Hernandez-Repreza at circle top mid-left, veers right to 27m center into #9 Pulver's zone, rounds her to arc top right in a seam between 3 defenders -- all content to play soft cushion. Dumesmil snaps right foot shot, perfect low frozen rope beats Thompson's dive, bounces just inside right post low.

63' | Dumesnil carries it all the way into a dangerous area and finds her shot, beating the keeper to make it a 2-1 game!

📺 @Pac12Network#GoHuskies pic.twitter.com/46D4HdLgdF

— Washington Women's Soccer (@UW_WSoccer) November 3, 2018

 

From the recaps:
(UW) "Tempers flared in a contentious Boeing Apple Cup Series battle, ..."
(WSU) "With the game getting out of hand and tempers flaring, ..."

72' 2-1 Yellow card on UW DF #3 Kaylene Pang.
73' 2-1 Yellow card on WSU DF #7 Elaily Hernandez-Repreza, for "a foul"
73' 2-1 Red card on WSU MF #3 Makamae Gomera-Stevens: "and a scuffle"

74' | A red card against WSU after a foul and a scuffle there. The Huskies will be a player up for the rest of the game.

📺 @Pac12Network#GoHuskies

— Washington Women's Soccer (@UW_WSoccer) November 3, 2018

76' 2-1 #16 Hancock runs step-for-step to own 12m right post, wraparound tackle clears ball away cleanly.

76' | @G_Race60 with the brilliant tackle to keep the Cougs' lead intact | 2-1 WSU#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/JStIoMZeNq

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) November 3, 2018

88' 3-1 "... the Coug' star put the match away for good ..." Haro clears long from own box top center to circle half-front left. Weaver starts from own 27m center, turns on jets and outraces Seykra coming from the left -- Seykra realizes it around circle right, speeds up but not enough. Weaver pokes past her cleanly, keeps going with a 3m lead, slows down through arc left. Ruelas comes out to 12m left post, lunges down to 14m, Weaver touches right outstep around her past spot, follows and finishes right foot into 1/4 right 1/3 high. We haven't seen speed like this, either

HIGHLIGHT | The speed, the finish, the hat trick, @morgan_weaver8 is on fire #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/2rjm6SnsRF

— Washington State Soccer (@WSUCougarSoccer) November 3, 2018

 

89'30" 3-1 Yellow card on WSU MF #12 Katie Jones.

FT 3-1. WSU 18(9)-(2)8 shots(sog), 11-2 corners, 12-9 fouls. The red card means Gomera-Stevens misses our R1 match, so ... next player up.

Haro's assist on Weaver's 3rd goal is her 13th of the year, already WSU's single-season record, 3T-4th in the nation (3 have 14), and T-10th Pac-12 all-time single-season. Her 20th career assist is T-2nd WSU all-time (with Kourtney Guetlein), behind Beth Childs' 23.

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WSU finishes the regular season +12=1-5, +5=1-5 = T-7th Pac-12 (with Arizona State), and a final RPI of 32. As the Stanford draw sufficed to clinch(!?) an at-large bid for WSU, it was deemed not necessary to replay our "postponed" 08/24 match vs. Iowa (at neutral-site Minneota, rained out), so that match is officially "cancelled", and both of us simply end on 18 matches played.

Iowa finished +8=3-7 with RPI ~ 100, so even a win over us would not lift them into the bubble. We're not that much of a prize any more

 

I finally caught up to real-time! Since we're pretty sure we're not getting left out, WSU hosts a public Selection Show Watch Party:

2018/11/05 Mon 13:30 PST
2018 NCAA D1 woso Tournament Selection Show
Live stream: NCAA.com (should be on front page)
Interactive Bracket
WSU site: Bohler Gym, Camp Room (2nd floor)

In certain previous years, parts of the bracket were leaked early, in case you want to play the browser refresh lottery