UAB Women’s Soccer Defeats FIU 1-0

Thursday, September 22

Miami, Fla.

6:00 PM

UAB

-522, 20 CUSA

FIU

-251, 021 CUSA

UAB

FIU

UAB Women’s Soccer Defeats FIU 1-0

9/22/2022 8:42:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Zuniga's goal in 65th minute wins it for the Blazers

MIAMI –For the first time since 2017, the UAB women's soccer team has started the Conference USA season 2-0-0 after its 1-0 victory over FIU on Thursday evening. Overall, the Blazers improve to 5-2-2.

Asha Zuniga's header off a Claire Rea free kick in the 65^th minute was the only goal of the match.

The UAB backline held the Panthers to three shots helping Eve Beyer earn her fourth victory of the season and second clean sheet of the year.

Six of the Blazers eight shots were on target and UAB had nine corners to FIU's two.

"Our girls battled tonight against a newlook FIU I think," said head coach Eric Demers. "FIU has really come along in the past year under their new coaching staff, and we enjoyed the challenge of testing ourselves against another team who tries to control games in possession. We give them credit and that's a great three points for us on the road."
"We're looking forward to another great challenge on Sunday now back in Birmingham."

The next home match is Sept. 25 versus Florida Atlantic at noon. The Owls (5-3-3, 1-0-1 C-USA) tied UTSA earlier tonight, 1-1.

NOTES

Beyer recorded her ninth career shutout, surpassing Lisa Nowoslawski (1998-02) for fifth all-time in program history
The game was delayed at halftime for 30 minutes due to lightning
This was Zuniga's third career game-winning goal

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