In the first weekend of American Athletic Conference women's soccer league play, East Carolina and UCF earned wins.

Results
Saturday, Feb. 13
East Carolina 1, Houston 0 (OT) - Box Score
Sunday, Feb. 14
UCF 3, Temple 0 - Box Score

East Carolina 1, Houston 0 (OT) - Box Score

GREENVILLE, N.C. – After battling for more than 90 minutes, Carsen Parker buried a corner kick from Morgan Deweyto lift the ECU soccer team to a 1-0 win over Houston on Saturday evening in Johnson Stadium.
 
ECU improves to 1-1-0 on the season and 1-0-0 in the AAC while Houston falls to 2-1-0 overall and 0-1-0 in the league.
 
Coming into Saturday's game, the Pirates and Cougars had needed overtime to separate from each other in three of the previous four meetings and the last two. The majority of those results have gone Houston's way, with the Cougars unbeaten against ECU since 2015.

However, it did not take long into the first overtime for the Pirates to change the script. On ECU's eighth corner of the night, this one in the 96th minute, Dewey hit an in-swinging cross towards the back post and there was a mad scramble in the rain as players attacked the ball. Parker was able to get a foot on it and hit it into the roof of the net for the game-winning goal, sending the ECU players racing onto the field in celebration.
 
Throughout the game, ECU had applied pressure from corner kicks, nearly scoring earlier in the game. The Pirates took one corner in the first half, but exploded for six in the second 45 minute period. ECU nearly got the opening goal in the 55th minute when Maycie McDougal took a shot off a Pirate corner, but her effort was saved by Houston's Salma Ghazal.
 
On the other end, the Pirates defense continued its strong early season form and have now allowed just one goal in 186 minutes of action. ECU limited Houston to four shots in the first half and five in the second stanza. The best chance for the Cougars came in the 89th minute when Mia Brascia got loose on the left side of the box and took a shot that was heading towards the far post. But ECU freshman goalkeeper Maeve English continued her impressive start to her collegiate career by diving to her left and palming the ball outside of the post for a Houston corner.  
 
ECU finished with a 13-12 advantage in shots and an 8-4 edge in corner kicks. English had five saves for the Pirates to earn her first victory as a Pirate.  

UCF 3, Temple 0 - Box Score

Philadelphia, Pa. – The UCF women's soccer team earned its first victory of the season in their first match on the road with a 1-0 win over American Athletic Conference foe Temple.
 
It took a matter of minutes for Katie Bradley to leave her mark on the first game of her collegiate career, giving the Knights the lead with a goal just past the two-minute mark. Bradley took the first of what would end up being 16 shots for the Black and Gold, outshooting the Owls 16-4.
 
Mallory Olsson earned a brace in the first game back in action for the Knights, picking up her first goal thanks to an assist from Kristen Scott just before the half hour mark in the match. Continuing to apply offensive pressure in the second half, Olsson earned her second goal and UCF's third of the match off of an assist from freshman Sarai Linder.