BELMONT, Calif.--Like in Groundhog Day or 50 First Dates, the Hawai`i Hilo women's soccer team is waking up to a new day but experiencing the same result over and over and over.
For the third time in three matches of a northern California swing, the Vulcans went 110 minutes (regulation and two overtimes) before settling for a 1-1 tie. Today, the opponent was Notre Dame de Namur in front of 120 fans at Koret Field.
The Vulcans will now fly home with a 2-1-3 overall record and they are 0-0-3 in Pacific West Conference action. The Argonauts leave the field with a 3-2-2 record in 2016 and a 1-0-1 record in conference play.
Alexis Prieto put the home team up first just 6:17 into the match, but UHH countered right before halftime on score from
Rose Nakamura. The Hilo High School product scored on a breakaway, placing the ball just past NDNU keeper Abigail Cebrero to tie the match in the 43rd minute. Nakamura, a junior academically but playing her first season of college soccer, notched her first collegiate goal.
But that would be all of the scoring for the day. The Argonauts pressured the Vulcans all afternoon with 23 shots, although only nine of them were on goal. In overtime alone, NDNU had seven shots, keeping UHH goalkeeper
Jenna Hufford busy. The Vulcan senior had one save in the first overtime, two in the second and eight overall. It was the third consecutive match in which she recorded eight saves.
The Vuls had just five shots on the day, four of them on goal. They didn't have any shots in either of the overtime periods. The home team had ten corner kicks to Hilo's one.
Hawai`i Hilo returns home for a five-match home stand that begins with a Saturday (Oct. 1) square off against Hawai`i Pacific. Start time is 3:30 p.m. at Kamehameha School.
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