Friday October 4, 2002

FIU falls to conference foe South Alabama, 3-0

n their first game action in a week, the Florida International Women's Soccer team couldn't overcome a 16-3 corner kick disadvantage and fell 3-0 to South Alabama Friday night in Mobile, Ala.

The Jags' (4-5-3, 1-0-1) scoring came from a variety of sources. Rebecca Kahn scored the opening goal at 23:10 as she drove in a rebound from teammate Heather Adamus. And following an FIU own-goal, Kathy Steinmetz scored her third goal of the season with assists from Julia Herman and Melissa Moeschl.

For the Golden Panthers (1-9-1, 1-1), the game was their first since a traffic accident took the lives of a former player and former trainer and hospitalized another former player Sunday afternoon. In the wake of the tragedy, the Golden Panthers played flatly, uncharacteristically giving up more goals than they stopped and even scoring an own-goal. FIU next faces Louisiana-Lafayette at Lafayette Sunday at 1:00 p.m.