The UA women's soccer team is coming full circle from last year and it has no intention of slowing down.

UA went to the Iowa State Cyclone Classic, played and conquered.

UA played to a tie with Wisconsin on Friday, 1-1, and crushed Northern Iowa 5-0 yesterday, as the Wildcats won their second tournament in two weeks.

The tournament didn't have a great start for the Wildcats on Friday as it only took the Badgers eight minutes to put one past freshman goaltender Amanda Martin, who stopped all but one shot over the weekend.

Martin got better, though, and stopped everything else Wisconsin tried to bring.

"Amanda Martin had an exceptional game," said head coach Cathy Klein, who has responded to the code blue that was UA soccer. "Our defense was great."

UA was resilient, though, fighting back into the game only minutes later when freshman Mallory Miller scored in the 18th minute off a corner kick from freshman Jennifer Klein.

Klein kicked from the corner to another freshman, Erin Clewett, who passed to Miller for the score.

"I'm so glad freshmen are leading us offensively," Klein said. "This means great things for the future of this program."

"I'm so glad freshman are leading us offensively. This means great things for the future of this program." - Jennifer Klein Head coach

The score remained 1-1 through the second half, although both Clewett and Klein made solid shots on goal in the dwindling minutes of the game.

Senior Naomi Chu had a shot stopped with only 45 seconds left in the game.

In the two overtime periods, Arizona out-shot Wisconsin 5-2 but to no avail of a victory.

"This was not a case of where we survived the overtime," Klein said. "It was Wisconsin that had to survive. This is our first taste of just letting one getting away."

On the match, Wisconsin had 15 shots compared to nine for the Wildcats.

Yesterday, the Wildcats took on a Northern Iowa team that is picked to finish behind Drake, a first year program and a team UA has already beat this season 2-0.

Northern Iowa allowed three goals in a nine-minute span and only mustered one shot for the entire game.

The Wildcats hammered out 20 shots and five goals in the game against Northern Iowa.

Miller began the UA scoring in the fifth minute off a free kick from the top of the box.

Minutes later, senior Tymarie Novak sent a pass up field that was deflected by a Panther defender ÷ but not enough to keep freshman Maggie MacCool from corralling the ball for a breakaway goal in the 43rd minute to go to halftime with a 2-0 lead.

The second half attack was quick, as UA netted three goals in a nine-minute time span. Chu scored on a pass from freshman Nikki David.

Chu would not be done there. She lit up the scoreboard again with a cross-header from a pass from junior Lindsey Greenwood that went past the Panther goalie in the 54th minute.

"Chu energized us on attack," Klein said. "We took a lesson from the Wisconsin game on Friday and applied it to today's match."

Greenwood put the nail in the coffin in the 60th minute when she collected a deflection from a Clewett shot and sent the ball home to make the score 5-0 UA.

Martin played 72 minutes of the game without facing a shot, then gave way to fellow freshman Natalie Juarez who stopped the only shot she faced, preserving UA's third shut-out in four games.

"I am very pleased with out weekend. Any time our team wins a tournament, it's exciting," Klein said. "Now we just want to continue to focus on the development of our players and the team as a whole."

UA travels to Norman, Okla., to face Oklahoma on Sunday.