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Blazer Soccer: Busy week on the West Campus pitch

Posted on Sep 06, 2010 in Sports

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Following a weekend full of matches, the men’s and women’s soccer teams find themselves in a busy week of regular season play. Men’s soccer will look to bounce back from an emotional weekend at the Virginia Classic with a tournament of their own.

The Blazers return to Birmingham to host the 13th annual UAB Soccer for a Cure Classic Sept. 10-11. This year’s edition will consist of UAB, Memphis, Charlotte and North Florida. The Blazers will not play Memphis but will challenge Charlotte in Friday night’s match and North Florida on the following night. Each team will be fighting to win the tournament, but the real victors will be “Soccer for a Cure” and their fight against cancer.

The Blazers came up just short in 2009 with a heartbreaking loss to UMKC in their first match of the tournament and allowing a late goal to Drake in the following match to lose the title on goal differential. The Classic will be the Blazers’ second of three tournaments with a trip to Nashville for the Lipscomb Classic still remaining.

The Lady Blazers are seeking to continue their latest run of success, as they complete the remainder of the 2010 nonconference slate. They will host their final two nonconference matches with meetings with Middle Tennessee State on Thursday Sept. 9 and North Florida on Monday Sept. 13. It will be the first time the Lady Blazers meet with either team.

Middle Tennessee State looks to continue the same kind of success the Lady Blazers have discovered, as they have won their last two matches this season; while North Florida will come to Birmingham seeking their first win of the season with a current 0-4 record.

The latest surge of success for UAB seems to be highlighted by the attack of junior forward Laura McCalla and solid work of senior goalkeeper Kate Blankenship.

McCalla has proven to be a goal-scoring machine tallying five goals in five games this season. In goal, the return of Kate Blankenship has seemed to spark the Lady Blazers’ play, as they are 3-0 in Blankenship’s three starts.

Blankenship missed the first two games after having surgery in the offseason.

With the remainder of the team seeming to play better as a whole lately, the Lady Blazers look to give Coach Paul Harbin one last successful campaign. 

Email: tabdalla@uab.edu

 




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