The season of redemption for ISU women’s soccer hit a small bump in the road Friday as they lost their season opener to the Arizona Wildcats 0-1.

Iowa State started strong, notching four shots in the first 7:20 of play. After hitting the post and shooting the rebound over the net, the Cyclones failed to record a single shot on goal for the rest of the first half.

Despite their shooting frustrations in the first half, the Cyclones rebounded and recorded seven shots in the second half, but with only one shot on goal, Arizona’s McCall Smith only needed to make one save in her shutout.

“Offensively we had a lot of ideas,” head coach Rebecca Hornbacher said. “It is just a matter of fine tuning that last pass and finishing it off.”

Arizona’s Candice Wilks got the only goal of the game at 13:57 into the first half.

ISU goalkeeper Jo Haig bounced back from the early goal, making several key saves throughout the game, keeping the Cyclones in the game until the final horn sounded.

“Jo played fantastic tonight,” Hornbacher said. “Even after giving up a goal. It’s a huge challenge, and you need to stay psychologically strong.”

Haig’s mindset spoke volumes to each of her teammates, and the Cyclones came on stronger after falling down 1-0.

“Pretty much, when you go down one goal, you just need to pick everything up and go after them even harder,” Haig said. “I think we did a really good job organizing and trying to come back.”

The Cyclones were outshot 17-11, and Arizona had nine corner kicks to Iowa State’s three.

“Overall I think we needed to sort things out a little bit better defensively,” Hornbacher said. “We made some corrections at half-time.”

Offensively, Jess Villhauer led the way for Iowa State with three shots, including their only shot on goal.

“Offensively we just need to continue to attack,” Hornbacher said. “Clearly we had chances and we just didn’t finish on them.”

The Cyclones will try to rebound against Drake on Sunday evening at the last match of the Cyclone Classic tournament.

“We really need to trust in what we’ve been doing in practice,” Hornbacher said. “If we trust in each other and we play together I think we can be very dangerous.”