Temperatures dipping below 50 degrees seemed to freeze the Cyclone offense on Friday, and the warmer weather Sunday didn’t do much to thaw the Cyclones’ frigid play.

Against the Kansas Jayhawks Friday, the Cyclones managed only one goal on three shots in their 3-1 loss.

“I think [Kansas] just did a good job of dropping in and being organized defensively,” head coach Stephaine Gabbert said. “We were not doing a very good job of doing what we needed to do to get behind people like that.”

The Jayhawks took control very early on, when Kansas midfielder Brooke Jones scored just four minutes into the match.

Jones got the ball near mid-field and took it up the left side. Two Cyclone defenders tied her up just to the left of the goal, but she managed to get a shot off.

The shot sailed just over the outstretched arms of leaping Cyclone goalkeeper Karen Hasselman and into the goal for the score.

The Cyclones showed some life on offense when Tiffany Belz tied the score on an unassisted goal.

Belz sent a long free-kick over the head of the Kansas goalkeeper.

“It wasn’t even a shot, it was luck,” Belz said. “I was just trying to play it, like into the box so that they cold run on to it, and it went a little bit farther than I think anybody expected.”

The goal was the first of Belz’s career as a Cyclone.

The Cyclones went into the half tied 1-1, but Gabbert said at the break she told her team they needed to toughen up.

“I thought that they were being incredibly soft in the first half, and that was causing us to lose possesion a lot,” she said.

The Cyclones came out aggressively in the second half. They tallied 10 fouls after the break and 14 overall.

But being aggressive wasn’t enough to stop the Kansas offense.

The Jayhawks took the lead to stay in the 61st minute off a goal from Kansas forward Monica Brothers.

The Cyclones weren’t able to move on and didn’t get any offensive production on Sunday, either.

In their 1-0 loss to the Missouri Tigers, the Cyclones failed to score and only posted 5 shots.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” said sophomore forward Nicole Wilcox. “We’re just gonna have to keep plugging away, keep working hard.”

The Cyclones looked a little flat footed in the first part of the match, and surrendered the only goal of the match before halftime.

After the half, Iowa State seemed to play a more complete game but failed to put any points on the board.

Gabbert said the team has to be mentally solid for the full 90 minutes if they want to be successful.

“I told the team we can’t play for 45 minutes and win,” Gabbert said. “That’s kind of been a problem so far. We play great at times, and then at times we’re just not with it.”