{"id":280692,"date":"2025-10-06T01:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280692\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:35:26","slug":"houston-drops-first-home-match-of-season-to-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280692\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Drops First Home Match of Season to Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The University of Houston Soccer team suffered its first home loss of the season in a 1-0 defeat to Utah on Sunday afternoon at the Carl Lewis International Complex.<\/p>\n<p>After a three-game hiatus without recording double-digit shot attempts, Houston (6-2-4, 1-2-2 Big 12) tallied 13 on the afternoon while holding Utah (6-5-3, 1-2-2 Big 12), the Big 12 Conference&#8217;s leading shot taking team to six.<\/p>\n<p>The lone score of the afternoon came in the 15th minute when Utah&#8217;s Bella Woods&#8217; shot from 30+ feet found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Houston had a handful of good looks throughout the match but couldn&#8217;t finish the opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>With her start against Utah, graduate defender <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/alex-whitcraft\/9571\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9571\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Whitcraft<\/a> recorded her 63rd career start to move into a four-way tie for seventh all time in career starts in program history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UP NEXT<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Cougars head to Morgantown to face West Virginia on Friday at 6 p.m. CT, from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<strong>SUPPORT YOUR COOGS<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can make a direct impact on the success of Houston Soccer by <a href=\"https:\/\/app.uhcougars.com\/UH25PartnerWSA?utm_medium=email&amp;elq_cid=535077&amp;RSRC=Email&amp;RDAT=1389&amp;ehash=b7f491ff42331f557fe859ad04cd3438c083957d629518a46cce2a8f756df6de&amp;aid=16089&amp;pid=uh_email_eloqua&amp;rid=1389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>providing NIL opportunities<\/strong><\/a> and by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougarpride.com\/membership-center\/giving-opportunities\/sport-specific-clubs\/cougar-reserves\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cougar Reserves<\/strong><\/a> which provides financial support directly to Houston Soccer for needs beyond its operating budget.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<strong>STAY CONNECTED<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can receive updates by following <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/twitter.com\/UHCougarSoccer__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_Wl3hLLLA$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>@UHCougarSoccer<\/strong><\/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter, and catch up with the latest news and notes on the team by clicking LIKE on the team&#8217;s Facebook page at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.facebook.com\/UHCougarSoccer\/__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_Wt9aginw$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UHCougarSoccer<\/strong><\/a> or on the team&#8217;s Instagram page at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.instagram.com\/uhcougarsoccer\/?hl=en__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_XIoewyhw$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>@uhcougarsoccer<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2212 UHCougars.com \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0The University of Houston Soccer team suffered its first home loss of the season in a 1-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":280693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-280692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115324657549853027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}