Women's Soccer 10/20/07 -- Augsburg 1, Bethel 0
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MINNEAPOLIS (10/20/07) -- Lacey Hoover (Fr., Duluth, Minn./Central HS) slammed home a rebound for the lone goal of the game in the 21st minute, giving Augsburg College the only goal it would need in a 1-0 win over visiting Bethel University in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer game Saturday night at Edor Nelson Field.
Augsburg goalkeeper Maggie DeGroot * (Jr., Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha West HS) collected four saves for her seventh shutout of the season and 25th of her career. She is in second place on the school's career shutout record list; Beth Petrik (1995-98) holds the school record, with 26.
Augsburg, now 8-6-3 overall and 6-3-1 in MIAC play, remains in the hunt for one of the four spots in the conference's postseason playoffs. Augsburg is currently tied with Macalester (9-5-1 overall, 6-3-1 MIAC) for third place in the league standings with 13 league points; Carleton is in fifth place with 12 conference points (12-4-0 overall, 6-3-0 MIAC). Concordia-Moorhead (12-2-1 overall, 8-0-1 MIAC, 17 points) and St. Benedict (13-3-0 overall, 8-1-0 overall, 16 points) have already clinched spots in the postseason playoffs.
"I was impressed with how we responded tonight in a must-win situation," said Augsburg head coach Mike Navarre. "We got stronger as the game went on and were very solid defensively. We did a good job of mitigating Bethel's attack."
In the 21st minute, Augsburg's Felicia Faison (Jr., Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) put a shot from 45 yards out off the crossbar, which Hoover put home on the rebound for her fifth goal of the season.
As a team, Augsburg outshot Bethel by a 20-5 margin -- margins of 10-3 in the first half and 10-2 in the second half. Charli Sorensen (Jr., Park Ridge, Ill./Maine South HS) had seven saves for Bethel in goal.
Whitney Holman (So., New Hope, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS), Katie Edelen (So., Madison, Wis./Edgewood HS) and Hoover had three shots apiece for the Auggies.
Augsburg closes its regular season with a key game at St. Benedict on Wednesday (10/24) at 3:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Macalester closes its regular season hosting Gustavus on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., and Carleton has two league games left, at St. Catherine on Thursday (10/25) at 3:30 p.m. and hosting St. Olaf next Saturday (10/27) at 1 p.m. Bethel traveles to face Concordia-Moorhead on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
"There's no secret to what we have to do. -- we have to win on Wednesday to make the playoffs. We relish these challenges and will be ready to go on Wednesday," Navarre said.
