Cowgirls Overcome Early Deficit, Upend Montana, 3-1

MISSOULA, Mont., -- Wyoming isn't used to trailing.

You would have no idea after the way the visitors responded to an early Montana goal.

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Hadley Linder found the back of the net less than two minutes after the Griz took its lead, redirecting a perfect pass from Reese Gould. Maddie Burr buried a put-back in the 54th minute, giving the Cowgirls a lead it wouldn't relinquish in a 3-1 victory in Montana.

Isabel Vasco netted her third goal of the season on a feed from Alyssa Glover late in regulation.

“We were not going hit the panic button,” head coach Josh Purdum said after the Cowgirls fourth straight win. “We are going to be tested in conference and tested in these types of situations. We need to be sure we are sticking to our game plan, and the girls did a fantastic job not hitting the panic button and kept playing our style.
“It’s a testament to our mindset.”

The Cowgirls are now 6-2-0 on the season.

Haley Bartel wasn’t all that busy in net for Wyoming, officially making one save. A big reason for Bartel’s tepid evening was the fact that her teammates dominated on the stat sheet. The Cowgirls outshot the Grizzlies, 22-3. Ten different players registered a shot, while Vasco and Kiley Ballek led the way with four each.

Wyoming remains on the road for its final non-conference match of the season. It travels to Colorado State on Thursday for a 7 p.m. contest at the CSU Soccer Field.

* A UW press release contributed to this report

From Bison to Triceratops - All of Wyoming's Official Things

Every state in our nation has chosen things that represent the state in one way or another to be official state things. Like a flower, or animal. Wyoming is no different.

The Equality State, or the Cowboy State, depending on which state slogan you want to go with, has a state flower. But did you know we also have a state tree and a state fish? Yes, we even have a state code.

To be an official thing, a member of the state legislature must write and submit a bill to the legislature declaring that a thing will be the official state thing. Then the legislature votes to pass the bill, or not, if it passes, the governor signs the bill into law and we have a new official state thing.

Here is what we have so far, all of Wyoming's official things. Now you can win big on Wyo Trivia Night if that's a thing that exists.

Gallery Credit: Ben Kuhns

- From Bison to Triceratops - All of Wyoming's Official Things