Women's Soccer 11/1/05 -- MIAC Playoff Semifinals -- Macalester 3, Augsburg 0

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (11/1/05) -- Katie Pastorius (Sr., Arden Hills, Minn./Mounds View HS) netted her eighth goal of the season and Grace King (Fr., Northampton, Mass.) scored her 11th and 12th goals, as Macalester College beat visiting Augsburg College 3-0 in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer playoff semifinal game Tuesday night at Macalester Stadium.

The Scots advance to host Concordia-Moorhead Saturday in the MIAC finals, with the winner receiving the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs. Earlier in the day the Cobbers beat St. Thomas 3-0 to advance to the finals.

Macalester improves to 18-0-1, while Augsburg finishes its season at 8-3-7. The win avenges the only blemish on the Macalester record, a 1-1 tie to the Auggies in late September in Minneapolis.

Saturday's Macalester-vs.-Concordia match is a rematch of last season's playoff finals, in which the Scots won 2-0 to get into the NCAA tournament.

Pastorius opened the scoring on a King assist just three minutes into the contest. The Scots went up 2-0 at the 16:07 mark on the first of King's two scores on the night. King's second goal came at 74:21.

Macalester outshot the Auggies 23-4 and had an 8-1 margin in corner kicks. King had five of her team's shots, while getting four apiece were Pastorius and Meghan Garrity (So., Walled Lake, Mich./Marian HS).

Felicia Faison (Fr., Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) and Eilidh Reyelts (Sr., Duluth, Minn./Duluth Marshall HS) had shots on goal for Augsburg, with Jackie Keller (So., Traverse City, Mich./Traverse City West HS) and Emily Anderson * (Jr., Hudson, Wis.) adding Augsburg's other shots.

Maggie DeGroot (Fr., Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha West HS) had five saves for Augsburg, while Louisa Bigelow (Sr., Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township HS) had two saves for Macalester.

This was Macalester's sixth straight shutout and 10th in its last 11 games. The Scots have yielded just two goals over the past 13 contests. Meanwhile, Augsburg was shut out in its last four games of the season, a shutout streak that ended at 442:41.

Macalester is now 26-0-3 against conference rivals since a defeat to St. Benedict late in the 2003 season.