The University of Louisville men’s and women’s basketball teams started their seasons off on the right foot.
The men’s team began with an 81-68 win over Minnesota in the Armed Forces Classic on Friday night Puerto Rico. Meanwhile the women’s team won its season-opener 89-69 Friday evening at IUPUI, then defeated UT-Martin 77-43 in its home opener Sunday afternoon at the KFC Yum! Center.
In the 12th-ranked Lady Cards’ victory over the host Jaguars, freshman Mariya Moore tallied a game-high 22 points in her collegiate debut while senior guard Bria Smith contributed 15 points and freshman Myisha Hines-Allen added 11.
Then against the Skyhawks, all five starters scored in double figures to lead Louisville to victory. Hines-Allen and Smith scored 14 points apiece while Moore tallied 12. Seniors Sara Hammond and Jude Schimmel added 11 and 10 points, respectively.
The Cards next host Belmont at 7 p.m. Thursday night.
Here’s a look at what else happened in UofL sports over the weekend:
The
14th-ranked
men’s soccer team suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 double-overtime loss to Clemson in the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C. The
19th-ranked
Tigers scored with 3 seconds left in regulation to force OT. Then, after a scoreless 10-minute period, Clemson scored the game-winner on
Ara
Amirkhanian’s
goal in the
105th
minute. Louisville led most of the way after Ricardo
Velazco
headed in Andrew Brody’s cross in the
13th
minute. The Cards defeated No. 1 Syracuse 2-1 in Friday’s semifinals thanks to goals from Will
Vitalis
and
Velazco
.
UofL
(10-7-3) will see where it lands in the NCAA Tournament field of 48 at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon when the pairings are released at ncaa.com.
The
10th-ranked
field hockey team lost to No. 8 Stanford 2-1 in overtime in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in
Storrs
, Conn. The Cardinal took the early lead 3:12 into the match, but
UofL
junior Elisa Garcia got the equalizer late in the first half. The two teams remained deadlocked at 1-all until the fourth minute of OT when Stanford’s Alex
McCawley
scored the game-winner.
UofL
ends its season 15-6.
UofL cross country runners Edwin
Kibichiy
and Ernest
Kibet
earned invites to the NCAA Championships after strong performances in the NCAA Southeast Regional, where the men finished eighth and the women
10th
, Friday at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park.
Kibichiy
and
Kibet
finished second and third, respectively, in the 10,000-meter race. Emily
Bushey
led the women with a
29th-place
finish in the
6K
. The NCAA Championships will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 22 in Terre Haute,
Ind
.
The fifth-ranked men’s swimming and diving team topped No. 11 Auburn and No. 14 Tennessee while the
18th-ranked
women’s swimming and diving squad fell to No. 14 and No. 7 Auburn Friday afternoon in a meet in Knoxville,
Tenn
.
Caryle
Blondell
and
Grigory
Tarasevich
led the men’s team, which took down the Tigers 171-129 and the Volunteers 167.5-130.5, with a pair of individual victories while
Tanja
Kylliainen
paced the women (UT beat
UofL
166-134 while Auburn clipped the Cards 185-114) with three victories.
The volleyball team split its final ACC road matches of the season. The Cards swept host Clemson on Friday night before being swept by
homestanding
Wake Forest on Saturday night.
The women’s rowing team posted a runner-up finish in the varsity eight race at the University of Virginia’s
Rivanna
Romp on Sunday in
Earlysville
,
Va
. The Cards also won the novice eight and fourth in the varsity four events.
Photo courtesy University of Louisville Women’s Basketball Facebook Page
