No. 19 SMU and Tulsa both picked up Sunday victories in American Athletic Conference women's soccer action on Sept. 18.

Sunday, September 18
No. 19 SMU 1, Baylor 0 - Box Score
Tulsa 1, Oral Roberts 0 - Box Score
UCF 2, No. 20 Texas 2 - Box Score
Kansas 3, South Florida 1 - Box Score
William & Mary 1, East Carolina 0 - Box Score

No. 19 SMU 1, Baylor 0 - Box Score
DALLAS – No. 19 SMU improved to 5-1-3 on the season with a 1-0 victory over Baylor at Washburne Stadium on Sunday.
 
Mackenzie Rudden scored her first goal of the season, heading the ball into the left side of the net in the 24th minute. She redirected a feed from Courtney Sebazco, the third assist of the season for the Hermann Trophy Watch List member. Before Rudden found the net, her, Sebazco and Peyton Annen each had a shot on target saved by Baylor's Lauren Traywick.
 
SMU is 5-1 at Washburne Stadium this season and 13-2-1 at home the past two years.
 
The SMU defense held Baylor to just six shots and only two were on goal. Baylor's best chance was a shot by Kylie Finney in the 77th minute as Tatum Sutherland made her second save in the game. This is the first solo shutout of the season for Sutherland and the 11th of her career. She had combined with Samantha Estrada for two other shutouts this season.

Tulsa 1, Oral Roberts 0 - Box Score
The Tulsa women's soccer team put together a 1-0 shutout over crosstown riavl Oral Roberts on Sunday night at the Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium.  The Golden Hurricane moved to 6-3-1 on the season, while the Golden Eagles fell to 5-4-1 overall.

Jordan Frederick put Tulsa on the board at the 27:34 mark as she picked up a cross from Madison Tokarchik on the left side and shot into the lower right corner from six yards out.

UCF 2, No. 20 Texas 2 - Box Score
AUSTIN, Texas – The UCF women's soccer team earned a hard-fought 2-2 draw on the road against No. 20 Texas at Mike Myers Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

The first 41 minutes of the first half were filled with both teams trading possession back and forth. Then in the 41st minute, Texas opened the scoring on a goal from Lexi Missimo. Thirty-nine seconds later, Dayana Martin broke free and knotted things at one apiece when she put the ball in the bottom right corner of the net.

In the 66th minute, UCF took the lead on an own goal from Texas. That score held until the 86th minute when Texas tied the game on a goal from Trinity Byars.

Four draws in a single season match the UCF program record. The Knights had four draws in 2019 when they finished 11-4-4.

Kansas 3, South Florida 1 - Box Score
TAMPA (Sept. 18, 2022) – The University of South Florida women's soccer team closed out its nonconference schedule on Sunday with a 3-1 loss to Kansas at Corbett Stadium despite outshooting the Jayhawks 20-10 on the day with five shots on goal. South Florida falls to 3-6 (0-1-0 AAC) on the year while Kansas improves to 7-3.

Despite the Bulls' threats, it was the Jayhawks that got on the board first when Lexi Watts served up a chip shot over the head of South Florida keeper Sydney Martinez in the 32'. The 1-0 margin would stand as both teams headed to the break.    

Kansas came out in the second half and struck quickly to give themselves a cushion when Rylan Childers took a pass from her sister Raena and fired a shot to the low left corner past a diving Martinez, to give the Jayhawks a 2-0 lead in the 48'.

Kansas added a final goal in the 71' when Avery Smith was sent a pass from Emma Beltz who saw a wide-open goal in front of her and connected to make the score 3-0.

The Bulls looked to make one final push to get back into the match when Emilie Lajmiri beat Pasar from three yards out for her first career goal, off an assist from Lucy Roberts in the 83'. That was the only marker of the match for South Florida.

William & Mary 1, East Carolina 0 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina soccer team lost to traditional women's soccer power William & Mary 1-0 on Sunday at Johnson Stadium. Elaina Longjohn scored the lone goal of the match, assisted by Jillian O'Toole.

The goal came on a countering chance when O'Toole caught the Pirates out of position and made an easy pass to Longjohn for the wide-open finish. Shooting from the left side of the box to the right of the goal, the shot was virtually unsavable.

The Pirates did have chances on the day with three shots on target on 11 total shots but were unable to put any of them away.