It was only a 1-0 win, but No. 2 Stanford certainly made an impression with its victory over No. 8 BYU in a battle of unbeaten and untied teams playing their makeup game from the match postponed inHawaii on the first weekend of the season. The Cardinal extended its shutout streak to 359:29 minutes and has not been scored on since the 31-second mark of its season-opener at Hawaii.
Freshman Jordan DiBiasi scored the winner in the 32nd minute on a well-constructed play that began when Jordan DiBiasiplayed a long cross from 40 yards out to the foot of Kyra Carusa at the top of BYU’s 18-yard box. Carusa one-touched a pass with her left foot to open spaceinside the penalty box toward the right post that DiBiasi ran on to and placed in the left corner of the goal.
The big question mark for the Cardinal was whether it could get any scoringafter frontline losses of Chioma Ubogagu and Taylor Uhl. DiBlasi’s goal was the first of her college career, andfreshmen and sophomores have come through, accounting for six of Stanford’s eight goals this season.
BYU’s best chance for an equalizer came in the second half when a shot by