Sept. 29, 2000

Box Score

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas toughed out its third-straight Big 12 victory, beating the Baylor soccer team Friday night 2-1.

Baylor dropped to 4-5-1 with the loss, 1-2 in conference. Texas improved to 7-3, 3-0 in the Big 12.

Texas took the lead in the 15th minute. Junior Abby Gutowski took a pass from freshman Kylee Wosnuk on the right side and knocked it past Baylor goalkeeper Dawn Greathouse to give the Longhorns a 1-0 lead.

Nine minutes later, Wosnuk cut through the Baylor defense, had her shot blocked by Greathouse, but scored on the rebound for Texas' second score.

Baylor's goal came three minutes later. Sophomore Tamura Crawley cleared the ball ahead to junior Rachel Kacsmaryk, who overtook the Texas defense and nudged the ball past Texas goalkeeper Shay Wilkerson to cut the Texas lead to 2-1. The goal was Kacsmaryk's first of the season.

Baylor had several opportunities to score in the second half, but the Texas defense proved too strong. An apparent goal in the 71st minute by senior Molly Cameron was waived off when Cameron was called offsides. With 30 seconds to go in the game, Cameron caught the Texas goalie pulled out 15 feet in front of the goal, but was unable to score as the Longhorn defense swarmed in to block her shot.

The game was played in front of 1,670 fans, the fourth largest crowd in Texas' history and the second largest crowd the Bears have ever played in front of in any arena.

The loss for Baylor was the Bears' first to an unranked team this season, Baylor was 4-0-1 against unranked teams prior to the game.

The Bears return home to host Texas A&M on Sunday. Game time is set for 1 p.m.