Sept. 8, 2006

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Michele Weissenhofer added to her nation-leading assist total with passes that led to second-half header goals by Jill Krivacek and Brittany Bock, as the top-ranked Notre Dame women’s soccer team improved to 5-0-0 with Friday night’s 2-0 win at TCU. The Irish held the Horned Frogs without a shot on goal and racked up 11 corner kicks, marking the fourth time in five games this season that Notre Dame has totaled at least nine corner kicks in a game.

Five of Krivacek’s eight career goals now have opened the scoring for the Irish in tense second-half situations, including the tying score last week in the number-one showdown with Santa Clara. Weissenhofer set up Friday’s first score after collecting a turnover and playing her cross from the right endline. The 5-foot-11 Krivacek was positioned near the top of the six-yard box and easily pushed a standing header into the far-left side of the net (54:27).

Bock – who just returned with teammate Carrie Dew from playing in Russia at the Under-20 World Championship – scored a similar goal at the 71:00 mark. The set-play goal began with a service from the leftfooted Weissenhofer, just outside the right edge of the penalty area. Weissenhofer sent her cross around the left side of the wall and Bock was ready at the far post, heading the ball back into the far-right sidenetting for her 13th career goal with the Irish and Weissenhofer’s eighth assist of the season.

Notre Dame extended the second-longest scoring streak in the program’s history to 41 games. The Irish maintained their near-perfect all-time record when claiming a 2-0 lead (254-0-1), including 231 straight wins when going up 2-0.

Notes: The Irish now have compiled a 69-7 scoring edge in the second half during the past two seasons (11-0 in 2006) … ND has held two opponents (USC and TCU) without a shot on goal this season … ND’s 18 goals this season have come from nine different players … the Irish have totaled 26 overall goals this fall (including the two exhibition games), with nine of those goals coming via set plays (at least one in six of the seven games) … senior M Jen Buczkowski has played all 81 games of her ND career (the Irish are 72-7-2 in that 2003-06 stretch, with the opponent yet to outshoot ND since 2002) … the senior class’s career win pct. (.901) would rank as the third-best four-year win pct. in ND history and includes a 56-3-2 record in the regular season … the eight seniors now have combined for 467 career games played (includes 80 for D Christie Shaner, 76 for F/M Lizzie Reed, 74 for central D Kim Lorenzen and 73 for Krivacek) … the crowd of 2,058 is the second-biggest home attendance in the history of TCU women’s soccer.

#1 Notre Dame (5-0-0) 0 2 – 2
TCU (2-3-0) 0 0 – 0

ND 1. Jill Krivacek 3rd of season/8th of career (Michele Weissenhofer) 54:27; ND 2. Brittany Bock 1st of season/13th of career (Weissenhofer) 71:00.
Shots: ND 7-12 – 19, TCU 0-4 – 4
Corner Kicks: ND 3-8 – 11, TCU 1-2 – 3
Saves: ND 0 (Kelsey Lysander, Lauren Karas), TCU 5 (Katy Buchanan)
Fouls:ND 3-5 – 8, TCU 3-2 – 5
Offsides: ND 2, TCU 0
Attendance: 2,053