TUCSON, AZ – Capping off their first season under head coach Becca Moros, Arizona Soccer ends the year with a thrilling, 2-1 win over ASU.
It was one hell of a year for Arizona Soccer as the Wildcats are in the first year of the Becca Moros era as head coach, and went through several growing pains adjusting to Moros and her style.
Winning just five games on and being outscored 34-15 on the year, the 2021 season-ending couldn’t have been scripted any better as the Wildcats came away with the thrilling, 2-1 win over rival ASU to close out the year.
Arizona entered the game as major underdogs and with just one win in the Pac-12, and it seemed it was all but a given that ASU would come away with an easy win. However, senior forward Jill Aguilera had other plans.
Playing in her final game as a Wildcat, Jill was No. 2 on the all-time Arizona goal-scoring list. Starting the game strong, Jill would put the Wildcats as she put one past the Sun Devils’ netminder just 12:34 into the game to make it 1-0, Cats.
Arizona Soccer would surrender the equalizing goal at 81:53 to make it 1-1, but the sixth-year senior wasn’t going to let ASU come away with the win.
Still tied 1-1 at the 93:38 mark, Jill would come up big for her team yet again as she put another one past the ASU keeper, this time on a penalty kick to make it 2-1, successfully delivering the win.
It was Jill’s second goal of the game and 33rd of her career as she moved past Mallory Miller as Arizona’s all-time goals leader.
With the win, Arizona improves to 5-13 (2-9) and enters the off-season with plenty to build off of for next year. Either way, it was a storybook ending for the Wildcats and Jill Aguilera as she ends a miraculous career at Arizona, plus it is always great beating that school up North.