South Florida picked up a win in its season opener Sunday, August 21, in American Athletic Conference women's soccer action.

Sunday, August 21
South Florida 3, FGCU 1 - Box Score
No. 23 SMU 1, No. 11 Tennessee 1 - Box Score
UCF 1, LSU 1 - Box Score
Michigan State 0, Cincinnati 0 - Box Score
Tulsa 1, Kansas City 1 - Box Score
South Carolina 2, East Carolina 0 - Box Score
Binghamton 2, Temple 0 - Box Score
Lamar 3, Houston 0 - Box Score
No. 18 Ole Miss 3, No. 22 Memphis 0 - Box Score

South Florida 3, FGCU 1 - Box Score
TAMPA, Fla. -- A pair of goals within a 5-minute span was enough for South Florida to defeat FGCU, 3-1, in its season opener on Sunday.

Lucy Roberts converted a penalty kick in the 26th minute before Rosalia Muino Gonzalez scored from long range in the 30th minute to double the Bull lead. 

After the Eagles tallied in the 78th minute to cut the lead to one, Maria Bulis found the ball in a scramble in the 6-yard box and scored in the 87th minute to finish off the scoring.

No. 23 SMU 1, No. 11 Tennessee 1 - Box Score
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The No. 23 SMU women's soccer team tied No. 11 Tennessee, 1-1, at Regal Soccer Stadium on Sunday.

Freshman Peyton Annen delivered her first career goal in the 41st minute to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead heading into the break. A Courtney Sebazco free kick from outside the box was found off the head of Annen and placed high-right to score the opening goal of the match.

Hermann Trophy Watch List candidate Sebazco closed opening week for the Mustangs with one goal (game winner versus Rice on Aug. 18) and an assist.

Goalkeeper Samantha Estrada logged nine saves on 25 shots faced, one short of tying a career high set against Memphis on Oct. 28, 2021.

Tennessee's Jaida Thomas scored the equalizer in the 61st minute in a front-of-the-net scramble off a Hannah Zaluski corner kick.

UCF 1, LSU 1 - Box Score
BATON ROUGE, La. – The UCF women's soccer team battled to a 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon against LSU.

After the Tigers committed a foul, Katie Bradley got the scoring going with a beautiful strike on a free kick right outside the penalty area to put the Knights up 1-0 in the 30th minute.

The Knights outshot the Tigers 6-4 in the first half. LSU knotted things up in the 46th minute on a goal from Jaden Humbyrd.

After trading possession for the next 35 minutes, Caroline DeLisle made an incredible full extension save to keep things knotted up at one with 5:50 remaining.

Michigan State 0, Cincinnati 0 - Box Score
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati women's soccer team battled Michigan State to a scoreless draw on Sunday afternoon at Gettler Stadium. With the tie, Cincinnati moves to 1-0-1 (0-0-0 AAC) on the season.

Goalkeeper Anna Rexford recorded a pair of saves to secure the shutout and earn her second straight clean sheet, erasing the Spartans' best look of the match with a full extension save in the 76th minute. This is the first time that Cincinnati has recorded consecutive shutouts since the Bearcats' held Temple and UCONN scoreless on Sept. 26 and Sept. 29 of 2019.
 
After the kickoff time was delayed an hour for inclement weather, the Bearcats faced another 80-minute delay after 23 minutes of action. The two teams remained in the defensive battle as neither team was able to get clear attempts at the goal through the first 45 minutes.
 
Cincinnati held the possession advantage in the second half as the Bearcats' best chance came in the 84th minute when Brandi Thomsen collected a ball left of the top of the box before firing a shot outside of the top right of the frame, however, neither team was able to capitalize after regulation.

Tulsa 1, Kansas City 1 - Box Score
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tulsa trailed Kansas City 1-0 at halftime, but rallied to tie the game at 1-1 Sunday (Aug. 21) on the road at Durwood Soccer Stadium. Tulsa moved to 1-0-1 overall following the draw. 

Kansas City took a 1-0 lead when Lily Stedman scored in the ninth minute, assisted by Caijah Anderson.

The Golden Hurricane leveled the match on a goal from Emilie Torres -- her first goal of the season -- in the 57th minute, assisted by Karsen Aguirre and Jadyn Chee. Neither team notched another goal in the match.

South Carolina 2, East Carolina 0 - Box Score
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The East Carolina soccer team dropped a hotly contested match 2-0 against the No. 12 South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday. The contest was the second in as many games against a top-15 ranked team nationally.
 
The Gamecocks were able to tally the first goal of the game on a cross-box right-to-left feed from Dru Drake to Shae O'Rourke who kept the ball low to the near post to beat Maeve English.
 
Shortly after the goal, Grace Doran recorded the Pirates first shot on goal of the season, though it was saved comfortably by keeper Heather Hinz. The two teams went into halftime with a 1-0 margin for South Carolina.
 
The Pirates opened the second half strong with Anabelle Abbott recording a shot on goal, but in the 50th minute, South Carolina struck again. Catherine Barry crossed the ball in and after a rattling around briefly, the ball snuck past English and into the goal, thanks to a touch by Megan Spiehs.

Binghamton 2, Temple 0 - Box Score
VESTAL, N.Y. – Temple women's soccer (0-1-1) fell to Binghamton (1-1-0), 2-0 on Sunday afternoon in their first road match of the year. Despite holding the offensive momentum in the first half, the Bearcats stayed composed, netting two goals in the second half to earn the win.  

Binghamton wasted no time as they entered the second half, notching the go-ahead goal just 40 seconds into play as Molly McLelland sent a cross into the head of Maya Anand and past the hands of Kyla Burns. 

Binghamton continued their offensive pressure, breaking through again in the 66th minute when Olivia McKnight snuck a ball across the goal line to advance the lead to two.  

Lamar 3, Houston 0 - Box Score
BEAUMONT, Texas -- Houston fell to 0-1-1 on the season after suffering a 3-0 defeat at Lamar on Sunday night.

Lamar's Christine Kitaru opened the scoring in the 10th minute and added the third goal of the evening in the 69th minute. Cariel Ellis made the score 2-0 in the 60th minute.

No. 18 Ole Miss 3, No. 22 Memphis 0 - Box Score
OXFORD, Miss. – The No. 22 ranked Memphis Tiger women's soccer team faced an early test when they traveled south to take on the No. 18 ranked Ole Miss Rebels. While Memphis and Ole Miss held steady in the first 45 minutes of play, the Rebel offense would explode in the second half and hand the Tigers the 3-0 loss. After today's game, Memphis moves to 1-1 for the season.
 
Memphis challenged the Ole Miss defense from the start, getting shots from Jocelyn Alonzo, Zoe May and Haylee Spray.
Momo Nakao nearly put the Tigers on the board in the 51' when she fired off three consecutive shots, all saved by the Rebels.

Alonzo and Saorla Miller saw chances in the second half, firing off back-to-back shots in the 73' – both of which were saved by Ole Miss goalkeeper Ashley Orkus.