The UK women’s soccer team (9-6-2, 3-4-2 SEC) exploded for a 5-1 victory over SEC foe Mississippi State (7-12-0, 0-10-0) on Sunday.
Kentucky managed to get off 25 shots en route to a season-high 5 goals.
With the win, the Wildcats are still in the hunt for an SEC Tournament appearance. UK must defeat Vanderbilt on Friday to guarantee a spot int he tournament while a tie or loss would end the season.
Here is an excerpt from UKAthletics.com:
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“We talked about speeding up the play,” UK head coach[COLOR=black] Jon Lipsitz said. “How fast can we play with balance? How fast can we move the ball? And how fast can we throw the ball in and keep play moving? We also talked about how scoring fast sometimes to players means they have to score fast, and that’s not the case. We talked about having to take ten, 20, maybe even 30 passes to break them down defensively and try to score.” [/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]The Cats were extremely successful off set pieces today, netting three goals. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]”We as a team work very hard on our set pieces, and to be honest, we weren’t really happy with the way that we had played on set pieces both offensively and defensively,” UK head coach Jon Lipsitz said. “We have been writing on a boar[/COLOR]d the number of goals we have scored and given up on set pieces. To be honest, I purposefully put it up there on the board to get under their skin a little bit and finally today, we are in the positive on that.”
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The Wildcats close out the regular season on Friday night, celebrating Senior Night against the Vanderbilt Commodores. The game will be televised live on FS South at 7:00 p.m. ET.
