The No. 9 USC Women's Soccer team was defeated by No. 3 UCLA on Friday, 2-1, in a record-setting match at the Coliseum. 7,804 fans showed up to cheer on their respective teams. This broke USC's single-game attendance record, which previously sat at 1,469 dating back to last year's game against Florida.

A loss to their cross-town rivals is never a good feeling, but playing in front of such a large crowd was enough to keep the team's spirits up after the game.

"These are the games you play for," goalkeeper Kristin Olsen said. "In women's soccer it doesn't get any better than this. You're playing against your archrival, you have over 7,000 fans coming out to watch you, and you're playing in one of the most historical venues in Southern California, if not the country, so it's really cool."

"This is amazing. Soccer doesn't attract this many people. The energy in here was just awesome. It was a lot of fun," mid-fielder Megan Ohai said. "When we get a turnout like this we try to play for the fans and we want to have an entertaining game for them. I think we did a pretty good job of that."

UCLA's Kristina Larsen scored the first goal in the 27th minute from eight yards out. USC came back in the second period to tie the game in the 50th minute with a goal by Sophomore Megan Ohai, assisted by seniors Nini Loucks and Stacey Strong. The game winning goal was scored by UCLA's Kristina Larsen's, a header off Laruen Wilmoth's corner kick in the 61st minute.

With almost 30 minutes left in the game, USC thought they could score again, but they were never able to get the ball past UCLA's goalkeeper, Ashley Thompson.

"When we went down by one we started to panic and we started trying to send the ball in the goal to try to get something going," Ohai said. "We had time. There was time to score again and we should have just kept playing like we were."

After a shut out last weekend against Arizona State, senior goalkeeper Kristin Olsen let two slip by her on Friday night, but knowing that the season is far from over, the team isn't discouraged by the loss.

"We're still a really, really good team," Olsen said. "We're more than capable of beating UCLA, but we're just beating ourselves right now. We've just got to cut out the mistakes."

"I think we have spurts of really good soccer, and when we are on, other teams can't hang with us," Ohai said. "But we have mental breakdowns and when we do they capitalize on them.

"It's okay though, we'll see them again."