Weber State University Athletics
Weber State University
No. 5 Montana
Wildcats season ends in snowy quarterfinal loss
11/6/2015 1:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
MOSCOW, Idaho – Cloudy skies turned to drizzle, drizzle turned to rain, rain turned to snow, and under a heavy blanket of white, snow turned to heartbreak.
On snow-blanketed Guy Wicks Field, the Weber State University women's soccer team saw its season come to an end with a 2-0 upset loss to Montana in the quarterfinal round of the Big Sky Conference postseason tournament.
The Grizzlies, who advance to the semifinal round to face top-seed and host Idaho, scored a pair of rebound goals – both by Ashley Pedersen – and the Wildcats were unable to get traction behind their vaunted passing attack, being forced into an aerial battle against a Montana team with a sizable height advantage.
Weber State saw its 20th season end with a 10-9-1 overall record, its second winning and second 10-win season in the past three years, while bidding farewell to a talented group of seniors whose names will now dot the Wildcats' record books.
Forwards Mackenzie Harrison and Stacy Bair, midfielder Abbey Clayton, and defenders Brecken Holbrook, Marissa Cook, and Shaylee Petersen, along with injured midfielder Joanna Matyjasik, ended their respective careers with 35 wins, and a 2013 Big Sky Conference title, and will now pass the baton to the next generation of the Purple and White.
