Cloud's Walters gave the T-birds an early lead just 1:46 into the game as she launched from just outside the eighteen inside the far post. Barron answered for the Lady Cougars a minute and a half later as she took a deflected pass near midfield, split two defenders and maneuvered around the Cloud goalkeeper Laura Hughes. But the first half belong to Walters as she would score the second of her four first half goals from forty yards out on a free kick. Walters would again connect from long distance taking an Anyi Lamprea pass and delivering a twenty-five yard shot over Barton goalkeeper Cecilee Horlacher. Wrapping up the Cloud scoring in the first half, Walters delivered a twenty-two yard free kick to give the T-birds a 4-1 lead into the intermission.
With the teams flipping directions for the second half, the Lady Cougars utilized the wind advantage and limited the T-birds to only three shots with none coming on goal. Even as the wind steadily became calm during play, the Lady Cougars were on full attack. Barron, who missed most of the first half with an injury occurring from a sliding tackle from Hughes, started the Barton comeback taking a Katelyn James pass to score five minutes into the half. Olimpia Bonilla scored perhaps the most spectacular goal of the day as she dribbled from near midfield winding in and out through five Cloud defenders and sticking it inside the far post past a diving Hughes to draw the Lady Cougars to within one as less than eleven minutes has elapsed in the half. Bonilla then contributed to the game-tying goal two minutes later as her free kick from just inside midfield found a streaking Barron who chipped it over a sliding Hughes.
As the rain started to fall and the wind calmed at Cougar Field, the Lady Cougars had seized momentum and eventually the lead eight minutes later. Horlacher, who is the Lady Cougars' regular goalkeeper, moved to a field position in the second half to help aide the front line attack and it paid dividends for first-year head coach Aaron Avila. Taking a throw-in from Courtney Galliher, Horlacher crossed a pass through the box to Ruth Cazier and Barton had their first lead of the game. Barron then gave Barton a two goal cushion midway through the half taking Jessica Rosenberg's pass from midfield to chip shot a thirty-two yard kick over Hughes. Barron wound up her five goal day punching in a deflection off of Cazier's corner kick with five minutes to play.
Other notes:
Freshman Bianca Barron continues to etch her name into Lady Cougar soccer history. Her five goals is only the sixth time a Lady Cougar has achieved that feat and seventh time a Lady Cougars has had ten or more points. Barron's twenty-six goals on the season also move her into fourth place in most goals in a season and seventh place on the career list. Barron is also moving up the single season points scored as she moves into the fifth position.