Oct. 5, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Forward Kim Castellanos scored her sixth goal of the season in the third minute of overtime, tallying the winning goal for San Diego State against San Francisco in a women's soccer match Sunday afternoon. The goal at the 92:54 mark improved SDSU's record to 5-5-1, while the Dons fell to 4-8-0.
Forward Becky Prilaman earned the assist. "A perfect flick-in by Becky set up the goal," head coach Chuck Clegg said. Castellanos took the pass from her right, beat two defenders and was one-on-one with USF goalkeeper Jennifer Orantes before tucking the ball into the lower left corner of the net.
The overtime game-winner was Castellanos' third of her career. She scored an overtime goal against Cal State Fullerton on Sept. 17, 2001 and against UNLV in the 2002 regular-season finale on Nov. 2. Both previous occurrences took place at the SDSU Sports Deck.
Castellanos continued her timely goal scoring with today's goal. She scored the tying goal in Friday's match against No. 12 Arizona State with only 3:45 remaining.
With Friday's double-overtime 1-1 tie with Arizona State, SDSU has participated in consecutive overtime games for the first time since playing in three straight in 1992 against Cal Poly SLO (2-1 win), Cal State Dominguez Hills (2-1 loss) and UC Irvine (0-0 tie).
"USF dominated the first half," Clegg said. "We were feeling the effects of playing three games in five days, but in the second half, we got our legs back."
In the 75th minute, a shot by forward Lisette Martinez from 20 yards out hit the cross bar and in the 87th minute a header by defender Noelle Jouglet went over the cross bar by a foot. The Aztecs had five of the last seven shots of the game.
Goalkeeper Stephanie Pearson recorded four saves in earning her fourth shutout of the season.
The Aztecs head into the mountains next weekend, playing at Colorado College (4-6-1) at 3:30 p.m. MDT on Friday and open up Mountain West Conference play at Wyoming (5-6-0) at 1 p.m. MDT on Sunday. Wyoming opens their MWC season with a home match against UNLV at 3 p.m. MDT on Friday.