CC’s three-game winning streak to open its C-USA schedule matches the program’s best start in six seasons as an affiliate member of the conference set by the 2009 squad that finished second overall during the regular season and advanced to the championship match of the conference tournament.

“We continue to get better and better, and I’m impressed with this group in terms of their resiliency and how hard they’ve worked,” head coach Geoff Bennett said. “Today was proof of that. We played very well against Southern Miss on their home field. We took a lot of shots, created great chances and scored three really nice goals.”

Kaeli Vandersluis struck for the only goal Colorado College would need just 3:59 into the game. The freshman midfielder converted on a cross from Madison Whitehead, who extended her career-best point streak to four games. Vandersluis became the fifth different Tiger to notch a game-winning goal in 2011.

Midfielder Jessie Ayers found the net for the third time in four games during the 54th minute when she buried the rebound of forward Lauren DiGregorio’s shot that went off the post.

Then with seven minutes remaining, forward Jaclyn Silsby put the contest out of reach when she scored on a header off a cross from midfielder Hannah Peterson.

Goalkeeper Hanna Berglund and the Colorado College defense recorded their fourth consecutive and fifth overall shutout of the season. The Tigers have now played 382:26 minutes since allowing a goal in the closing minutes of regulation time during the 1-1 tie against Fresno State on Sept. 16.

Next Up: Colorado College wraps up its first conference road trip on Sunday when they visit No. 25 UCF at noon ET.

Yeverino gave the host Tigers a 1-0 advantage in the 33rd minute, scoring on a shot inside the box to the right corner of the goal. The goal was his eighth on the season in seven FHSU games. Dula Fadis set up Yeverino’s goal.

The visiting Tigers of Colorado College clawed back in the second half, notching the equalizer in the 71st minute. CC’s Nick Lammers headed in the free kick from Matt Fechter for the tie.

The 90 minutes of regulation ended with the 1-1 score. After two overtime periods of 10 minutes each, the game ended with the final 1-1 score.

Arkansas, which beat Air Force 2-1 on Friday, put up no such fight against CC.

Brittney Lyman and Madison Whitehead scored in the first half for the Tigers. Kaeli Vandersluis, Lauren DiGregorio and Jesse Ayers added second half tallies.

DeGrigorio also added two assists in the game.

Hanna Berglund got the shutout and garnered six saves for the Tigers. Emily Lillard went 90 minutes for the Razorbacks, picked up nine saves, and was still tagged for five goals.

Colorado College improved to 2-4-2 with the win. Arkansas dropped to 2-5-0.

Lyman put the Tigers on the board in 13th minute when she directed a perfect cross by forward Lauren DiGregorio into the net for her second goal of the season.

The Bulldog defense shifted toward DiGregorio as she dribbled down the right side and left Lyman unmarked in the box for an easy score from five yards out.

Katie DeVault kept Fresno State in the game during the first half when she made five of her 10 saves. DeVault’s biggest stop occurred in the 56th minute when she got just enough of a Lyman shot from eight yards out to push it outside the right post.

The Bulldogs (3-3-2) avoided the shutout with 2:34 left when Jaycee Bingham scored on a header off of a serve by Lauren Lindstrom from 35 yards out.

CC’s Hannah Berglund stopped three shots in the second half, including a lunging tip that sent a direct kick by Vanessa Gonzalez just over the crossbar.

Next Up: Colorado College (1-4-2) continues its season-long four-game home stand on Sunday against the University of Arkansas at noon. Arkansas (2-4-0) defeated Air Force 2-1 on Friday.

Blake Dressen sealed the win for the Olies, who improved to 3-0-0.

Colorado College forward Daniel Wright struck for an unassisted tally in the eighth minute to give the Tigers an early lead, but that turned out to be the only ball that would get past the Olies’ junior goalkeeper Harry Ullmann, who finished with three saves.

Olies defender Jake Stark tied the game in the 34th minute.

‘Keeper Forrest Marowitz stopped three shots for Colorado College, which slipped to 1-1-2.

CC launched a season-low seven shots, only four of which were on net. St. Olaf took a total of 10 shots, including five on goal. Each team had a pair of corner kicks.

The Tigers are back in action again on Sunday when they complete their two-game visit to Minnesota with a game at Carleton College.

The Tigers had to regain their composure after the Division II Mountain Lions scored a pair of late goals to erase a 3-1 deficit. But unlike a year ago when Colorado College dropped a 3-2 decision in overtime, the Tigers scored the deciding goal and snapped a two-game skid against their crosstown rivals.

“It shows a lot of character by our guys,” head coach Horst Richardson said. “I’m so exceedingly proud of them to not fold because we have been snake-bit in overtime the last two years. I can’t even recall the last overtime game that we won.”

Parham struck for first the first game-winning goal of his career from six yards out, putting the shot over the outstretched arms of UCCS junior goalkeeper Jarod Thomas and just under the crossbar.

Matt Fechter picked up his third assist of the game, the first game-winning assist of his career, after misfiring on a bicycle kick from 15 yards out on the left side. As the Mountain Lions’ defenders turned toward the goal, Parham was left unattended in the middle of the box.

Junior goalkeeper Brian Graf stopped six shots in his collegiate debut. He nearly stopped a penalty kick in the 75 minute, but UCCS’s Eric Goldberg’s shot went off his hands and inside the left post.

The Tigers made the most of their chances in the first half. Junior forward Daniel Wright netted his first career goal on CC’s first of the contest in the 13th minute after taking a feed from Parham and putting a shot from the right side into the upper left corner.

Nearly 17 minutes later, junior midfielder Keith Drury buried a header off a perfect serve by Fechter from outside the box on the right side.

Junior midfielder Scott Kocel gave the Mountains Lions a much-needed boost when knocked home the rebound of a shot by sophomore forward Matthew Cox in the 48th minute, but Colorado College got that one back 3:27 later when sophomore forward Brandon Ogilvie scored on a header off of a Fechter corner kick.

The lead looked secure until Goldberg’s penalty kick in the 75th minute, and UCCS tied the game a little more than 10 minutes later when senior forward Matt Friesen settled a pass from Scott Kocel, spun in the center of the box, and beat Graf with a shot toward the left post.

Thomas finished with two saves for the Mountain Lions, who finished with a 19-9 edge in total shots and a commanding 8-1 advantage in corner kicks.

Next Up: Colorado College returns to action on Saturday afternoon against Kean University at 1 p.m. The Mountain Lions travel to Kansas to take on Fort Hays State on Sunday.

The Aggies scored on their only two shots of the game and escaped Stewart Field with a 2-1 victory in a game that started 30 minutes late because of lightning.

CC launched 21 shots and had a 17-1 advantage in corner kicks, but could produce just one goal for the second game in a row. The loss snapped Colorado College’s six-game winning streak in home openers.

“We’re sick of saying we were the better team and to look at the stats,” head coach Geoff Bennett said. “We need to finish our chances.”

After barely having possession in the Tigers’ end during the first half, Utah State struck twice early in the second frame. Jennifer Flynn put the Aggies on the board in the 59th minute, and Shantel Flanary notched her third game-winning goal of the season 67 seconds later. Kendra Pemberton had an assist on both goals.

CC turned up the pressure and a little less than five minutes later, Madison Whitehead knocked a shot off the right post from 10 yards out.

Colorado College had a golden opportunity to get on the board during the 71st minute when Brittney Lyman was tripped in the penalty area, but Utah State’s Molli Merrill made a diving save at the right post on Hannah Peterson’s penalty kick. Merrill finished with three saves.

Lyman finally put the Tigers on the board with 15 minutes to play when she sent a bending shot from the top left corner of the box into the upper right corner, but CC was unable notch the equalizer.

“The kids are playing well, listening and working hard,” Bennett said. “We’re just not getting the results. That needs to change starting Sunday.”

Colorado College (0-3) will shoot for its first victory of the season on Sunday when the Tigers play host to Jacksonville University at noon.

Playing at the University of Denver, the Buffaloes came out on the attack and were quickly rewarded.

Early Chances: Carly Bolyard put Colorado on the board in the second minute when she took a quick pass off Amy Barczuk’s free kick and scored from the middle of the box with a shot toward the far post. The Buffs doubled their advantage a little more than 12 minutes later on a shot by Hayley Hughes that glanced off CC goalkeeper Hannah Berglund’s hands and eluded senior defender Kelly Brown’s sliding save attempt at the goal line.

“To put [Bolyard] in that position that early in her career and she finishes it? I’ll take a bunch more of those,” CU head coach Bill Hempen said.

The Tigers had a chance to slice Colorado’s lead in half in the 26th minute, but CU’s Annie Brunner stopped a drive by Brittney Lyman, and Jessie Ayers header off the rebound went just outside the left post.

Second Helping: Any hopes for a Colorado College comeback evaporated in the 54th minute when Anne Stuller gave Colorado a 3-0 advantage, and the Buffs got goals from Lauren Shaner and Darcy Jerman to close out the scoring.

“Credit to Colorado,” CC head coach Geoff Bennett said. “They took advantage of their opportunities. We had some chances, especially in the first half, but were not able to capitalize.”

Berglund made five saves for the Tigers, while Brunner stopped three shots for the Buffaloes.

Scoring Touch: After scoring 24 goals total last season, the Buffs seemed to find a scoring touch. So what went right this game?

“Our shots were on target. They came from some unlikely characters, but at the same time, they went in. Some days they don’t. Today, they happened to go in,” Hempen said. “We’ll take it.”

Next Up: The Buffs will be back in action on Sunday when they face Northern Colorado at Prentup Field in Boulder at 3 p.m. Colorado College will take on DU at Prentup in the other match on Sunday.

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Memphis improved to 7-2-0 overall while the Tigers dropped to 4-2-3 and saw their six-game undefeated streak come to an end.

It also was their third consecutive shutout loss to the team that eliminated them from the C-USA post-season tournament last fall en route to the league’s playoff championship.

“Memphis is a good team,” said head coach Geoff Bennett. “But you know what? So are we. They came out and played hard, just as we expected. They defended us well and capitalized on their opportunity. They’ve got our number right now. We respect them, but I felt we had a handful of good chances. For us it’s just a matter of putting all the pieces together.”

The teams appeared headed for overtime until Ansari took a quick pass from Laura Laufenberg just outside the box, used her quickness to slip past the defense and blasted a shot high over Colorado College goalkeeper Caitlin Hulyo. 

Hulyo and Memphis keeper Elise Kuhar-Pitters each was credited with five saves in the match. The visitors finished with an 18-15 edge in overall shots, but CC missed the net by inches on several of its best opportunities.

The Tigers host UAB at 2 p.m. on Sunday in another contest at Stewart Field.

Freshman forward Brandon Ogilvie scored the only goal of the game during the seventh minute on a header off a flick pass from freshman forward Sean Parham. Ogilvie extended his goal-scoring streak to three games. It was the earliest CC has scored in a game this season.

The sequence started when Parham drilled the crossbar from 20 yards out and sophomore forward Matt Fechter collected the rebound on the right side, and got it back to Parham at the lower right corner of the box.

Colorado College posted a 20-7 advantage in total shots and enjoyed an 8-4 edge in shots on goal.

Dylan Broussard finished with seven saves to keep Millsaps in the contest. He denied Fechter’s shot to the top left corner during the 20th minute and made a sliding stop in the 39th minute when Fechter got behind the Millsaps defense.

Broussard also stopped Ben Glass from point-blank range in the 65th minute after the CC freshman one-timed a pass from Fechter in the center of the box. 

Colorado College plays host to Birmingham-Southern College on Sunday at 11 a.m.