There’s not many other people you’d rather have at the spot in collegiate soccer right now with the game on the line than Nicole Douglas. The nation’s leading goal-scorer had a chance to put Arizona State (9-7-2, 1-6-2 Pac-12) in position for its first Pac-12 win this season.
She delivered the strike past the opposing keeper Dani Hansen. The Sun Devils hung on after Douglas’ second goal of the match to beat Colorado (7-7-3, 2-4-3) 3-2.
Douglas got her first penalty opportunity that she put away in the fifth minute. Douglas came into the week in a three-way tie for the most goals in the nation with Georgia’s Mollie Belisle and St.