BRUINS WIN FAMILIAR REFRAIN WOMEN'S SOCCER: UCLA 2, USC 1 (OT).Byline: SCOTT FRENCH Staff Writer It's the same story year after year: USC's and UCLA's women's soccer teams wage battle for 90 minutes, head to overtime and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX comes out on top. Stacy Lindstrom provided the heroics this time, heading a cross from Bristyn Davis off the crossbar and into the net to lift the fourth-ranked Bruins to a 2-1 victory Sunday in front of a McAlister Field-record 1,199, the third successive UCLA overtime triumph in the series. ``I've told my kids, there's no real keys to this game,'' said UCLA coach Jillian Ellis, whose team improved to 3-0-0 in the Pacific-10 Conference, second to Oregon (3-0-1). ``It's about emotion. And every year it's the same thing. It's uncanny how it's always overtime.'' And it's almost always a Bruins win. UCLA, seeking its fourth successive NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association final four appearance, is 15-2-1 against its archrival arch·ri·val n. A principal rival. , Nine of those games have been decided by a goal or less. ``It's kind of weird,'' Ellis said, ``because every year it gets harder, because we have more to lose, and at this point, (USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. has) nothing to lose. ... They gave us all we could handle. A lot of it is about gutting it out. I think this team is starting to deal with pressure as the season goes on." The pressure has been immense. After three straight NCAA final four appearances, UCLA (12-2-0) came into this season as a near-unanimous No. 1. But the Bruins are without Canadian star Kara Lang (torn knee ligament), five starters missed the first three weekends while at the FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f Under-20 Women's World Championship in Russia, and senior left back Mary Castelanelli, the most experienced defender, tore a knee ligament three weeks ago. That led Ellis to move Davis, a who had been playing forward but is a former defender, back onto the backline backline the upper outline of the body's silhouette viewed from the side. . Davis gave a galvanizing galvanizing, process of coating a metal, usually iron or steel, with a protective covering of zinc. Galvanized iron is prepared either by dipping iron, from which rust has been removed by the action of sulfuric acid, into molten zinc so that a thin layer of the zinc performance on the right, denying USC's attackers space to work and providing expert support to the attack, capped by her cross to Lindstrom nearly nine minutes into the extra period. ``I go where my team needs me,'' said Davis, who says she's more comfortable as a defender than up front. ``If they need me in the back, that's where I'll play for them." scott.french@dailynews.com (818) 713-3627 |
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