On Thursday, the 7-seed Florida Atlantic Owls women’s soccer team (8-7-5, 3-3-3 AAC) lost to the 3-seed Southern Methodist University (SMU) Mustangs (11-5-1, 5-3-1 AAC) 3-0, eliminating the Owls from the AAC Women’s Soccer Tournament.
“Not an ideal start. I felt for the girls. I’m proud of how we’ve competed: we changed our shape, [we] really started to get back in the game a little bit,” said head coach Patrick Baker after the game.
SMU graduate midfielder Wayny Balata scored the first goal of the game minutes into the first half.
The game went back and forth between the two teams throughout the first half.