Ninth-ranked TCU beat UTSA 1-0 on Sunday night at Park West Athletics Complex.
The Frogs’ Cameron Patton scored the only goal of the night in the 81st minute, coming off assists from Grace Vest and Allyson Brown.
Goaltenders Jasmine Kessler of UTSA and Olivia Geller of TCU made four saves each to keep things tied 0-0 going into the final 10 minutes of the game.
UTSA’s Zoe May, Michelle Polo and Leah Varela all had shots on goal in the first 23 minutes of the first half. Izzy Lane had a shot on goal in the second half, coming in the 58th minute.
UTSA is now 0-1-1 on the season including a 0-0 tie against Houston in the Roadrunners’ season opener. UTSA plays at home again on Thursday at 7 p.m. against St. Mary’s.
TCU, the defending Big 12 regular-season champion, beat Pepperdine 6-1 in its season opener and is now 2-0.
From UTSA coach Derek Pittman
“Against Pepperdine on Thursday night (TCU) completed 88 percent of their passes. We had a choice as a coaching staff. We could sit deep let them have the ball and park the bus. Or we could press them. Our DNA, our mentality is to press. I thought our players did a phenomenal job. We had pretty much 36 hours to work on that coming out of the Houston game. We needed to recover physically and mentally from that game, which was exhausting.
“I thought our players took on the game plan extremely well. I thought we disrupted TCU and made their life as difficult and miserable as possible. We were unfortunate to not pull away with a draw tonight.
“But again, when you have a good team like that, when you make one little error at the back post the team is going to punish you for it.”
On UTSA’s scoring chances:
“We know against a top 10 team in the country, we’re going to get only two, maybe three chances. We know we’re not going to get 15 shots. We’re not going to get seven, eight, nine good chances for goals. We’re going to get two or three.
“Most of all I’m extremely proud of our team for limiting TCU. To limit that team to 13 shots,
I think they had five on target. To be fair they scored six goals against (Pepperdine) the team that’s predicted to win the WCC – hats off to our team in how they went out and executed our plan.”
