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Owls are offensive with loss against Südflorida

Temple Lacosse fell 15: 9 on Südflorida to fall his first conference game of the season. | Kayla McMonagle / The Temple News

Temple (2-6, 0-1 American Athletic Conference) fell to Südflorida (7-2, 1: 0 AAC) in the Corbett Stadium in Tampa, Florida on Saturday afternoon. Temple has only scored double -digit goals since the attacker Amelia Wright suffered an injury to St. Joseph on February 19.

The owls remained nearby in the first quarter, but fell apart in the second. Temple's offensive made it only one goal and his defense went worse and allowed six in the 15-minute range. The owls seem to solve their problems in defense and only allowed a goal in the third quarter, but that quickly dissolved in the last quarter.

The Bulls scored five goals in the fourth quarter, three of which came in the last five and a half minutes of the game. Tempel goalkeeper Taylor Grollman recorded 19 parades with career height, but it wasn't enough because the crime could not achieve the same performance.

Key moments

  • Midfielder temple Emily Liberio Found the back of the network to start the rating, but USF attacker Sofia Chepenik And Juliana George reacted with two goals to take over a 2-1 lead.
  • The OWLs used successive opportunities as midfielder Lily Caravela And Sarah Gowman Stolen the lead just two minutes later.
  • Bullen middle field players Bailey Morris In the late phases of the first quarter, the game was bound at the age of three. Cheppenik used the momentum to start the second quarter by scoring two goals to take up a hat trick and expand the USF lead to 5-3.
  • Midfielder temple Kaitlyn Stankkavage Use the bull run with a gate, but the defense of the owls could not keep up and allowed four more goals and they scored 9: 4 in half.
  • Midfielder temple Sabrina Martin I was looking for a comeback to start the second half by scoring the first goal of the third quarter. However, Chepenik replied only 30 seconds later to keep the temple in chess.
  • In the last four minutes of the third quarter, Temple attacker Laura Conner and midfielder Erin King Everyone hit USF goalkeeper Paige Pagano to reduce the deficit to three to the last quarter.
  • USF middle field player Claire Natoli And Jena Binkis The owl dynamics with two goals to open the fourth quarter, stunted and increased the lead of the bulls to 12: 7. King refused to let Temple go down without a fight when she scored her second goal of the game to keep it in a striking distance.
  • Chenik and attacker AVA tasks and midfielder Kaitlyn Tartaglione Each added a goal to give the game of the game. King made one final effort to play the game with 15: 9, but it was too late for the owls and their hope to achieve two successive victories.

The numbers

  • USF was relentless in the offensive end of the offensive, 34 of his 48 shots reached Grollman.
  • Grollman ended the excursion, which saved 19 of the bulls shots of career height. This breaks her former career height of 18 parades, which she put in Temple's 11: 9 against UMBC on March 1 two weeks ago.
  • The owls collected 19 floor balls, but turned the ball over 26 times.
  • Six owls were on the score leaf, with King heading the way.
  • King ended the afternoon with her third hat trick in the last four games and added an assist.
  • Chepenik ended the excursion with six goals and eight other bulls, which received the best from Grollman.

From the barrel

Temple will complete his road trip when it faces Rutgers (5: 3, 0: 0 Big Ten) at 6 p.m. on March 20 at 6 p.m.