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BYU Women’s Soccer wins outright WCC Championship

By Shaun Gordon

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 20: A soccer ball sits at the back of the net during a Melbourne Heart A-League training session at La Trobe University Sports Fields on March 20, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 20: A soccer ball sits at the back of the net during a Melbourne Heart A-League training session at La Trobe University Sports Fields on March 20, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images) /
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BYU Women’s Soccer took down Loyola Marymount 2-1 in their final regular season game, clinching the outright WCC Championship.

The comeback season is complete. At least the regular season is.

With a 2-1 win at Loyola Marymount on Saturday, BYU Women’s Soccer clinched the outright West Coast Conference Championship. They’d clinched at least a share of the title with last Saturday’s win over then-No. 6 Santa Clara, and also earned the conference’s at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

But winning the outright championship with the win over the Lions caps off a rebound year for the program. In 2017 the Cougars stumbled to a 7-8-4 record, one of very few losing seasons in the program’s history.

But this year the Cougars finish the regular season with a 13-4-1 record, including going 8-1 in WCC play.

It took another second-half comeback to take down Loyola Marymount. Emma Tyrnauer opened up the scoring for the Lions with a 24th minute goal, and the Cougars couldn’t punch one in before the break.

But BYU’s Bella Folino evened the score in the 59th minute, and Elise Flake scored the game-winner ten minutes later to end the regular season on the right note.

Now the Cougars will have to wait a few days to learn the destination of their next game, since the Women’s College Soccer Selection Show will take place on Monday.

BYU won’t have to sweat whether they make the tournament, but it’ll be interesting to see whether the Cougars earn a first round home game.

The tournament follows an interesting format, with the higher seed hosting the first round, then eight teams hosting a quadrant in the second and third rounds.

The Cougars don’t have the best RPI (No. 44), so there’s a good chance they’ll head out on the road for the first round, but one more home game isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

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