With one match day remaining in the regular season, the teams for the 2021 American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Championship is set. South Florida, SMU, Houston, Memphis, East Carolina and UCF have all secured spots in the championship. Seeding for all six positions will be determined with the final day's results. 

Sunday, October 24
East Carolina 2, Memphis 1 - Box Score
UCF 5, Temple 0 - Box Score
SMU 2, Tulsa 0 - Box Score
Houston 2, Cincinnati 1 - Box Score

East Carolina 2, Memphis 1 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – A pair of goals in the final 22 minutes helped the East Carolina soccer team stun No. 23 Memphis 2-1 on Sunday afternoon in Johnson Stadium.
 
East Carolina finishes the regular-season with an 8-8-2 overall record and a 3-3-2 conference mark. Memphis is now 10-4-1 overall with a 4-3-0 league mark. The victory is the first over a ranked opponent since Hamilton took over prior to the 2018 season.
 
The opening half was tightly contested, with Memphis holding a slight 10-9 edge in shots while the Pirates held 54% of the possession. But it was only Memphis that got on the scoreboard. The goal came in the 24th minute with Jocelyn Alonzo getting free down the left wing for Memphis. Alonzo swung in a cross that found Mya Jones on the far post, with Jones slipping a shot just inside that goalpost.
 
Trailing 1-0 heading into the second half, East Carolina's outlook looked bleak as Memphis had the Pirates pinned back in its own half of the field. The Tigers peppered the East Carolina goal with ten shots in the opening 20 minutes of the second stanza, with East Carolina goalkeeper Maeve English called on for a pair of saves to keep the Pirates within a goal.
 
Despite the Memphis pressure, the game changed in an instant in the 67th minute. As the Pirates cycled the ball around its backline, it reached Abby Sowa at right back and Sowa saw space in front of her to drive forward. Sowa crossed the halfway line and picked up her head to see Haley McWhirter racing into the Memphis box. Sowa played a curling ball towards McWhirter, but it was just too far for McWhirter to get a foot on. However, it fell perfectly to Annabelle Abbott who was racing in behind McWhirter and Abbott was able to slip a shot in between the goalpost and a diving Memphis goalkeeper to tie the match.
 
With the game deadlocked, the result hinged on the next goal. In the 87th minute, the chance came for the Pirates. Alexia Moore won the ball deep in the Tigers half of the field and she was able to shuttle it out to the left wing where Samantha Moxie had room to operate. Moxie took her time and got the ball onto her left foot before swinging a cross into the box. Moxie's cross was perfect as it found a waiting Haley McWhirter. McWhirter headed back across goal and squeezed her effort just inside the upper left corner of the Tiger goal to set off a Pirate celebration.
 
Memphis finished with a 23-13 edge in shots, but it was just 8-7 in shots on goal. Both teams took four corner kicks in the game while East Carolina held 54% of the possession. English finished with seven stops for the Pirates while Elizabeth Moberg made five stops for the Tigers.

UCF 5, Temple 0 - Box Score
ORLANDO, Fla. - It was an eventful senior day for the UCF Women's Soccer Team, as they won 5-0 over Temple, and extended their winning streak to three games.
 
The Black and Gold got the scoring started early, as Ellie Moreno scored in the fifth minute to make it 1-0. Just three minutes later, she found the back of the net again to earn a brace and give the Knights a 2-0 lead. Two minutes after that, in the 11th minute of the match, Kristen Scott joined the party with a goal to make it 3-0.
 
UCF (8-5-1, 3-3-1) would rack up 15 total shots in the first half to the Owls' (5-6-3, 2-5-0) one as the score would hold at 3-0.
 
The domination continued in the second half for the Black and Gold. In the 63rd minute Scott added her second goal of the game to give the Knights two braces on the day.
 
Right before the final whistle Katie Bradley became the first Knight not named Kristen Scott or Ellie Moreno to score making it a 5-0 game.
 
In total, UCF had 33 total shots to Temple's lone shot in the first half.

SMU 2, Tulsa 0 - Box Score
DALLAS (SMU) – The SMU women's soccer team defeated Tulsa, 2-0, at the Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium Sunday afternoon. The victory was the 10th of the season for the Mustangs (10-2-2, 4-1-2 American Athletic Conference) and the ninth shutout.
 
SMU got its first goal in the 19th minute off the foot of Alina Khan, who scored for the second time in as many matches. Mackenzie Rudden passed the ball to Lindsey Whitmore on the left wing. The senior dribbled into the box before sending a cross toward Khan. Khan flicked it off the right post and into the back of the net.
 
Seven minutes later, Rudden headed home a corner kick served into the box by Courtney Sebazco. The goal was Rudden's second of the season as well.
 
Samantha Estrada was in goal and posted her second straight clean sheet. Estrada made four saves, all in the first half. The SMU defense did not allow a Tulsa shot on goal in the second half.
 
Tulsa (6-8-2, 1-5-1 The American) took just seven shots to SMU's 15, which included 10 on goal.

Houston 2, Cincinnati 1 - Box Score
HOUSTON – Houston Soccer (12-4-2, 4-2-1 AAC) concluded its regular season home schedule with a 2-1 victory over Cincinnati (6-7-3, 1-4-2 AAC) on Sunday at the Carl Lewis International Complex. 
 
The Cougars clinched an American Athletic Conference berth for the first time since 2019. Houston also tied for its most season wins in program history with 12 which has not occurred since 2010 when Houston went 12-5-4. With one regular season match still to play, as well as a conference tournament run, the Cougars have the chance to set a new win record for the program.
 
Houston fought hard against two physical teams this week, but came out on top in both matches. Following a victory against nationally-ranked Memphis on Thursday, the Cougars entered Sunday's match ready to continue the momentum and secure a win.
 
Redshirt freshman Maddie Bowers played an incredible game for the Cougars scoring her first collegiate goal late in the 38th minute with an assist by sophomore Madison Gear. The assist was Gear's second of the season.
 
Following the halftime period, Houston entered the second half up 1-0 before Cincinnati tied the game in the 69th minute. Once again, Bowers was an integral part in securing an assist to senior Natalie Anderson who put it in the net to win the match for the Cougars. The 78th minute score was Anderson's first of the season.