Monday Cardinal Couple -- Soccer wins, Golf tees off today

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MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

-Soccer back to winning ways over Toledo 3-1

-Women's Golf team starts season in Colorado

-Happy Birthday Robbie! 


Uremovich the difference as Louisville defeats Toledo

The University of Louisville soccer team improved to 5-1 on the season with a 3-1 win over Toledo Sunday at Cardinal Park in the Marriott Louisville Airport Classic. Angelika Uremovich scored twice for the Cards in the triumph.

A slow start for Karen Ferguson-Dayes kickers, who were knotted in a scoreless tie after the first half. Toledo hit the board first in the 52nd minute of play and held that advantage until the 59th minutes...when Chelsea Hunter connected on a penalty kick. It was her first score of the season. 

Louisville took the lead for good in the 70th minute of the 90 minute contest when Uremovich scored her first goal of the game. A precise header off a corner kick from Charlyn Corral made it 2-1 Cards. 

She tacked on the insurance goal the the 81st minute, driving a pass to the right post past Toledo's goalkeeper. Uremovich has 15 career goals and the junior from Ontario also was named to the All-Tournament team with Hunter for Louisville. 

" I was not happy with the way we started the first half but the increased energy and effort to start the second half was the difference. The credit goes to our kids for the second half. We have to understand that we must respect the game from the opening whistle in every match we play." Louisville women's soccer head coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes.

Respect could be tested this Friday when the Cards play the first of two on the road, a nationally televised contest on ESPNU against Notre Dame. The game is set for 4 p.m. Louisville finished the road trip at DePaul on Sunday. 

Tee time: Louisville women's golf begins season

The Louisville women's golf team starts the season this morning at Windsor, Colorado as part of a seventeen team field in the Colonel Bill Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Classic. Louisville will play 36 holes today and 18 Tuesday in the two-day event.

A solid returning nucleus for first year coach Courtney Trimble. Candace Wiley, Tara Lyons, Emily Haas, Katie Petrino and Sara Karlsson will tee it up. Wiley is the only senior in the group and all five saw extensive action for the Cards last season. 

Lady sings the blues (except today)

Finally, a very happy birthday to Louisville singer/performer Robbie Bartlett. A favorite of the CARDINAL COUPLE ownership, Robbie's a fixture at Saturday afternoon tailgating events at the Parrish House...performing her eclectic mix of pop, rhythm and blues, Motown and soul. The only downer to the Louisville win over Kentucky a couple of weeks back in football was that the pre-game rain kept Robbie and her excellent band from performing.  

We love it when she sings the national anthem at Louisville women's basketball game and you'll find her in the stands cheering on Jeff Walz's troops even if she isn't scheduled to perform. We'd love to see her become the regular singer for these contest, seems like Louisville always wins when she delivers the "stars and stripes". Are ya listening, Tom and Julie? 

It also so happens that Robbie shares her birthday with Cardinal women's basketball great Angel McCoughtry. 

You can also catch Robbie at various other venues around town and we've provided a link to her website. 

Rockin' Robbie 
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Friday Cardinal Couple - Owsley Brown Frazier 1935 - 2012

FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

- The Owl moves on

-Women's Soccer opens Friday @ Butler

-Field Hockey preseason scrimmage vs. IU

-Sing it, Robbie! 

Sad news that Owsley Brown Frazier has passed. The Louisville based philanthropist and his family donated millions of dollars to the University of Louisville over the years and 'Owl' was a recognizable fixture at Louisville sporting events in his wheelchair. 

The guiding force behind Brown-Forman Distillers for many years and founder of the Frazier International History Museum, Owsley's heart and pocketbook were essential in the building of the top-notch facilities that UofL sports teams practice and play in. 

Louisville loses a legend but the buildings and industries he helped establish will stand as a testimony and tribute to a man who cared...and backed it up with his wallet. 

A fixture at UofL women's basketball games, in his wheelchair on floor level...never far from the UofL bench...it's said that he'd rather attend a Cardinal sporting event than a gala party or banquet. 

Gotta love a guy like that. 

With a $25 million gift to the University of Louisville last December, no doubt his legacy will live on way past most of us. 

(Photo by Charlie Springer - Card Game)

Never got the chance to meet the man, personally. Not really sure what I would have said to him if I'd had the chance...except:

"Thank you." 

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Women's soccer kicks off the regular season today in Indianapolis against Butler University. The game will test the Cards scoring capabilities again. Exhibition wins over Ohio State and Wright State totalled four points for the Red and Black, while holding the foes to just one goal. 

The Bulldogs, entering their first year as a Atlantic 10 conference member, defeated crosstown rival IUPUI 3-1 five days ago in an exhibition game.

Butler went 8-10-2 last season in Horizon League competition. They have a Louisville/Sacred Heart flair with midfielders Jackie and Nikki Hafele and forward Lucy Chauvin on the roster. 

Game time is 7 p.m., in case you're making the I-65 drive to watch. 

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Louisville Field Hockey has a preseason exhibition on campus at Trager Stadium Friday against IU. 2 p.m. start for this one. 

The Cards were 10-9 last year and made it to the BIG EAST semi-finals. 

Tough-as-nails goalie Erin Conrad returns for a Louisville team that lost leading scorer Hayley Turner to graduation. A quick scan of the roster only shows one Jurich (Haley) on the team as well....her sister Lacey now in nursing school.  

The Cards were a pre-season pick to finish third in the BIG EAST.

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Anyone who's passed the Parrish House en route to a Louisville home football game over the past several years has most likely heard the silky, smooth stylings of pop and r&b diva Robbie Bartlett. 

A fixture singing the national anthem at UofL women's basketball games...Robbie's stylings have graced the 'Ville' for years at venues Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, John E's and R Place Pub.

Tonight, our favorite crooner takes to the big stage at the Kentucky State Fair...opening for Keith Sweat in a free concert in Fairgrounds Stadium. 

Bartlett covers Motown, R&B, pop, rock and soul as effortlessly and smoothly as the "Mustang Sally" she sings about. 

Let's hope the weather holds for them. Thursday night's free show with Cinderella and Sebastian Bach got cancelled because of thunder storms. Or, maybe the fair board should stick Journey, Pat Benetar and Loverboy outside tonight and give Robbie & Keith Freedom Hall. 

After all, she's a huge Cardinal fan.
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