BYU soccer: Cougars cruise past Wyoming

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Scoring often and quickly on the road in their first conference game of the 2010 season, the No. 12 BYU women's soccer team (10-1-1, 1-0-0) cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Wyoming Cowgirls (6-7-0, 0-1-0) on Saturday.

"We were really excited to start conference play today," said BYU head coach Jennifer Rockwood. "The girls have really prepared well for this and everything up to this point has been to get ready for our conference season."

Redshirt sophomore Dana Oldroyd netted her first career goal for BYU as the fourth and final goal in the victory over Wyoming.

"I thought we got off to a real solid start with an early goal to help settle us down but then they came back with a really nice goal," Rockwood said. "I was very proud of how we came out in the second half and got back in our rhythm."

The Cougars finished the game with 17 shots to Wyoming's seven.

The first half of action saw BYU's first goal from senior Kassidy Shumway off an assist from Jennie Marshall after just four minutes of play.

The teams headed into their locker rooms tied at 1-1 after the Cowgirls also got on the board with a goal from redshirt junior Kayla Davis.

Sophomore defender Lindsi Lisonbee scored BYU's second goal off a 40-yard free kick in the 63rd minute. Sophomore Jessica Ringwood hit a shot in the upper left corner of the net, for BYU's third goal, just six minutes later.

Women's volleyball

NORTH DAKOTA 3, UTAH VALLEY 1: At Grand Forks, N.D., the Fighting Sioux rallied from one set down to beat the Wolverines (25-13, 22-25, 18-25, 21-25).

With the loss the Wolverines fall to 9-8 (1-2 GWC), while the Fighting Sioux improve their record to 12-5 (2-0 GWC.)

SAN JOSE STATE 3, UTAH STATE 1: At Logan, Hanah Blume had 15 kills and 16 digs to lead San Jose State to a four-set win (25-23, 25-20, 13-25, 25-16). The Spartans improve to 7-10 on the season and 2-2 in the WAC.

Junior outside hitter Liz McArthur had a match-high 19 kills for USU (13-3, 1-2) to go along with three aces.