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At first, the Colorado women’s soccer team was finding a way without Shyra James.
But with the Buffaloes’ leading scorer still sidelined, CU suddenly is finding goals difficult to come by.
CU began a pivotal weekend on the road with a scoreless draw at Cincinnati on Thursday night, missing an opportunity to cement a top-four spot in the Big 12 Conference standings with two regular-season games remaining. The top four seeds receive byes at the Big 12 tournament in two weeks.
James, CU’s all-time leading goal scorer who leads the club with six goals this season, missed her fifth consecutive game and has missed eight of the past 10 games. The Buffs won all three games while James endured a stretch of three missed games out of four, and she returned to the lineup to score the only goal in a 1-1 draw against Baylor on Sept. 26.
James hasn’t played since, though. CU defeated Kansas 1-0 in the first game of James’ latest five-game stint on the sideline but has gone 0-1-3 since while scoring just two goals in those four games.
The Buffs have now suffered back-to-back scoreless draws after not getting shut out through the first 14 games. CU (10-2-4, 4-1-4 Big 12) couldn’t end that drought against Cincinnati despite outshooting the Bearcats 18-11 with a 7-4 edge in shots on goal.
CU head coach Danny Sanchez shook up the lineup in hopes of providing a spark, giving Jenny Beyer and Mallory Allen their first starts of the season. Cincinnati also played without its leading goal-scorer, freshman forward Rylee Felton.
“We mixed things up a little bit,” Sanchez said in a news release. “I thought there were some good individual performances, but like I told the team, at the end of the day we’re still not getting enough in the final third. Ava (Priest) tested the keeper well in the second half, but other than that, we had a lot of great possessions through the midfield. We did everything tactically we asked them to do. We were very good in the back, just missing that final piece.”
Buffs goalie Jordan Nytes, who on Wednesday won the Big 12 goalkeeper of the week award for the fourth time this season, made four saves to notch her 10th shutout of the season. Nytes took sole possession of No. 3 among CU’s single-season shutout leaders and moved one behind Kate Scheele’s 2014 total of 11 shutouts. It was the 18th shutout of Nytes’ CU career, moving one behind Kirstin Radlinski for fourth all-time.
Despite the draw, CU actually moved ahead of West Virginia (6-2-1) in the loss column into third in the league standings after the Mountaineers’ 1-0 defeat against No. 19 Texas Tech on Thursday. The Red Raiders and TCU, both 7-0-2 in the league, top the Big 12 standings, and the Buffs will have another opportunity to close in on a top-four spot when they visit West Virginia on Sunday (11 a.m. MT, ESPN+).
CU Buffs women’s soccer 0, Cincinnati 0
Colorado 0 0 — 0
Cincinnati 0 0 — 0
Goalies (Min.-goals allowed-saves) — Colorado: Nytes (90-0-4). Cincinnati: Rexford (90-0-7).
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