The Marquette women’s soccer team started its Big East slate of games hotter than most on the outside imagined, especially for a team picked to finish eighth in the Big East Preseason Coaches Poll.
But a team without two of its anchors in its defensive unit— Katrina Wetherell and Rachel Johnson — was bound to run into some sort of setback.
That appeared to be the case against UConn Sunday afternoon at Valley Fields, as the Huskies handed the Golden Eagles their second straight loss, 2-1, of the weekend.
“This team came out and fought so hard.