University of St. Thomas Athletics
Concordia-Moorhead
Women's Soccer falls to Cobbers 1-0 in 2 OT
11/5/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Vanessa Kowalski scored the game's only goal at 105:23 to give fourth-seed Concordia-Moorhead a 1-0 victory over top-seed St. Thomas in MIAC women's soccer play Wednesday afternoon at UST's South Field.
The Cobbers (12-4-3) advance to Saturday's MIAC finals at Carleton against the second-seeded Knights (14-5), who won 3-0 at home Wednesday over Macalester. Concordia is now 4-0-1 (advanced once in shootout) in MIAC soccer playoff games over the last three seasons and avenged a 3-0 loss to the Tommies on Oct. 4 in Moorhead.
No. 11-ranked St. Thomas (14-1-4), the conference regular-season champion, will await Monday's announcement to see if it receives a berth into the NCAA playoff field.
St. Thomas had its 19-game unbeaten streak end, dating back to last season. It was the Tommies' first overtime defeat in four seasons as they came into the day 5-0-8 in overtime games since a 1-0 defeat at UW-River Falls on Sept. 23, 2005.
A tie-break shootout was nearly needed as neither team scored in the first 15 minutes of the 20-minute overtime sessions. But the Cobbers' leading scorer, Sam Johnson, took a pass in the right side of the box, drew the goalie her direction, and passed to Kowalski on the left, who buried the game-winner.
St. Thomas had a 6-3 advantage in corner kicks but the Cobbers had a 10-5 advantge in shots on net. Amanda Domeier had nine saves in goal over 105:23 for UST, while Britt Reiersgord had four saves for the Cobbers.
Concordia had an early goal disallowed on an offsides violation. The Cobbers hit a post at 57:00, then a rebound shot sailed over the bar. Moments later, St. Thomas hit the crossbar with a shot. In the first overtime, the Tommies hit the crossbar again on a near miss.
In two days thus far in MIAC playoff action in volleyball and men's and women's soccer, the road team had pulled off upsets in four of the six matches.
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