LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On Sunday night in front of 1,160 fans at Drake Stadium, a fourth-minute goal from senior forward Kelsey Shimmick and the first career match-winning score by freshman forward Alexa Adams led Texas (2-2-1) to a huge 2-1 victory at No. 8 UCLA (2-3-0).
Senior goalkeeper Abby Smith was a rock alongside the UT backline, making a career-high 11 saves to top her previous single-match mark of 10 stops set on Oct. 31, 2014, against Oklahoma State.
Shimmick's tone-setting score came just 3:08 into the contest off an assist from senior defender Ali Schmalz, while Adams' goal came after beating her marker and a prone net minder to score past two scrambling defenders into an empty net at 60:51.