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UW-Stevens
Point Captures Sixth Straight WIAC Tournament Crown
Behind
three first half goals, UW-Stevens Point won its 10th Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women�s soccer tournament in 11
seasons and ran its unbeaten streak to a school record 19 straight matches
with a 4-2 victory over UW-Eau Claire Saturday in Stevens Point.
The
Pointers have beaten UW-Eau Claire in eight of the 10 championship victories
and have ended the Blugolds� season 10 of the past 11 years. UW-Stevens
Point is now 17-0-2 overall and earns an automatic berth to the NCAA
Division III tournament for the sixth straight year. The Pointers will learn
of their first round opponent on Sunday night.
Molly
Cady started the scoring for the Pointers with a penalty kick just 2:35 into
the match as Kelly Fink was taken down by Blugolds� goalkeeper Megan Brady
on a breakaway. At the 10:59 mark of the first half, UW-Stevens Point scored
another goal when Pointers� goalkeeper Kortney Krill launched a long punt
over the Blugolds� defense that Jenny Bruce raced down and made a move
around Brady for a 2-0 lead.
UW-Eau
Claire�s Kiley Zellner cut the lead to 2-1 at the 27:46 mark when she took
a pass from Marcia Foltz off a free kick and slid it past Krill. However,
the Pointers countered with just 2:29 left in the half as Megan Frey took a
corner kick that Cady headed in for a 3-1 lead.
UW-Stevens Point extended the lead to 4-1 just 10 minutes into the second
half as Kelly Fink sent a throw in that Cady headed to Andy Oswald for a
goal. UW-Eau Claire finished the scoring with 14:50 left on a goal by Maleia
Damato from Kris Unterweger.
Brady
finished with nine saves for the Blugolds and Melissa Meister had six second
half stops for UW-Stevens Point.
The Pointers scored a WIAC
tournament record 17 goals in the three tournament games and the four goals
Saturday marked the most they�ve ever scored in a championship match.
UW-Stevens Point extended its NCAA record conference winning streak to 66
straight matches, but allowed two goals for just the second time in the
streak, having also done so in the very first game of the streak �
a 3-2 win over UW-River Falls in 1996.
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