MOBILE, Ala. ? The University of South Alabama soccer team dropped a tough 3-2 decision at home to Louisiana-Lafayette, Friday night. The Jaguars fought back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits, but was unable to close the gap against the Ragin’ Cajuns. With the loss the Jaguars fell to 8-6-3 and 3-4-2 in the Sun Belt, while ULL improved to 8-6-3 and 4-2-3 in the league.

“That was as flat as we have come out and played all year long,” head coach Mike Varga said. “Against a good team like ULL we can’t give them opportunities like we did tonight.”

The Ragin’ Cajuns got on the board first in the eight minute with a goal from Courtney Hofland and struck back on a 25^th minute goal from Stephanie Lynch. The Jaguars fought back one minute later on senior Shoshana Sevel’s first goal of the season and putting USA within one at 2-1.

ULL came out in the second half and pushed the lead to 3-1 on Jenn Hungate’s first goal of the season, with Lynch providing the assist. South Alabama continued to play together as a team and put USA within one in the 71^st minute. Michelle Leppert played a perfect ball into Sam Stocker for her fourth goal of the season and cut the lead to 3-2. The Jaguars had several opportunities in the final 20 minutes, but was unable to put a ball in the back of the net.

USA will look to rebound at home in an important match against Louisiana-Monroe Sunday afternoon at “The Cage.”

“Hopefully we learned a lesson from tonight’s loss and we will play better Sunday afternoon,” Varga added.

The match against ULM is at 1 p.m. and will be senior day as the Jaguars honor seniors Sunny Haaland, Bri Nelson, Michelle Leppert and Shoshana Sevel.