A roundup of Friday's action in Colorado college soccer:
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Denver 2, Kansas 1: Freshman midfielder Katy Van Lieshout hit a game-winning goal
on a free kick from 28 yards out to give the Pioneers a victory over No. 13 Kansas in the Colorado
College Invitational at Stewart Field in Colorado Springs.
A roundup of college soccer in Colorado from Sunday:
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Metro State 1, Colorado State-Pueblo 0: What a big difference from Friday. After pummeling
the Colorado School of Mines at home two days earlier, the Roadrunners managed only a 1-0 victory
over Colorado State-Pueblo 1-0 on the road Sunday.
Kayla Mitchell scored four goals, including her conference-leading 26th of the season, as the
Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team posted its 12th shutout, a 4-0 victory against
CSU-Pueblo on Friday in Golden.
The Orediggers have shut out seven of their past eight opponents.
Mitchell gave Mines a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute, when Liz Oba chipped a ball over the
CSU-Pueblo defense.
A roundup of Sunday's college soccer action involving teams from Colorado:
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Santa Clara 1, Colorado 0 OT: At Palo Alto, Calif., the Buffaloes dropped their
second contest in the Stanford?Nike Invitational. Linder would be tested two more times in a
one-minute span, coming up with the saves on both attempts, however with less than two minutes to
play in the first overtime period, Santa Clara would seal the deal and finally sneak past Linder
for the win.
The Adams State College women's soccer team got from Jessica Hellweg, Ashley Grover and Kaylee
Smith en route to a 3-0 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference victory over the New Mexico Highlands on
Wednesday in Alamosa.
Grizzly goalkeeper Kirsten Dorsey picked up her second shutout of the campaign as she made five
saves for Adams State, 5-10 overall and 3-8 in RMAC play.
The University of Colorado soccer team sent its seniors out on good note Friday afternoon at
Prentup Field with a 2-0 victory over Texas Tech in CU's final regular-season game.
Colorado finishes the regular season 9-9, 6-4-0 in the Big 12, while the Red Raiders fall to
8-8-3 overall and 3-4-3 in conference.
The Adams State College men's soccer team snapped its 265-minute scoreless streak on Monday
against Colorado Christian but could not capture its first-ever win. The Grizzlies and CCU tied 1-1
at Cougar Field in Lakewood.
Adams State sophomore midfielder Peter Freeman ended the goal-less skid in the 35th minute,
scoring his second goal of the season.
Recaps of Friday's games involving teams from around the state:
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Colorado College 4, New Hampshire 0: The Tigers cashed in on a pair of corner
kicks early in the match and never looked back. Sophomore defender Beth Wright scored a goal and
assisted on another in the opening 13 minutes of play at Stewart Field in Colorado Springs.
Sophomore midfielder Riley Gallagher scored his first goal of the season and junior goalkeeper
Adam Liszewski increased his shutout string to 276-plus minutes as the Colorado-Colorado Springs
men's soccer team claimed a 1-0 victory over visiting Adams State College on Tuesday night at
Mountain Lion Stadium.
After giving up an early goal to former teammate Katie Larghe, Adams State College's Jessica
Hellweg and Ashley Sales scored goals less than six minutes apart before Amber Drumm iced a 3-1
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference women's soccer win with a late score as the Grizzlies snapped a
five-match slide with the road triumph over Nebraska-Kearney on Thursday night at Ron & Carol Cope
Stadium at Foster Field.
In Portales, N.M., the Adams State College men's soccer team wrapped up its road series in New
Mexico with a 5-1 loss to Eastern New Mexico University.
The Grizzlies slip to 0-7-3 overall in their first year as a varsity team, and the Greyhounds
improved to 7-2-1 overall.
Bryan Heath got the Grizzlies off to a fast start in the first four minutes forcing Greyhound
keeper Alistar Caldwell to make two saves.
Westminster College of Utah took 44 shots but needed late heroics to claim a 2-1 overtime win
over Adams State, which played its final match of an abbreviated inaugural season, on Sunday
afternoon at Murphy Field in Alamosa.
The Griffins, 9-6-1, scored the tying goal with just five minutes left on a Jeff Gardner header
before Tysen Gehring gave the Griffins the win with a pretty goal with just 3 minutes, 17 seconds
left in the second overtime.
