MOORHEAD, Minn. --
Ashley St. Aubin (SO, Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville HS) scored her conference-leading 14th goal of the season in the 29th minute, helping her Augsburg University women's soccer team to clinch a berth in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference playoffs with a 1-0 win at Concordia College-Moorhead on Saturday.
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 1, Concordia-Moorhead 0
LOCATION: Jake Christiansen Athletic Complex, Moorhead, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 11-3-1 overall (7-1-1 MIAC), Concordia 5-9-2 overall (2-7-0 MIAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
• St. Aubin scored the lone goal of the game at the 28:50 mark, an unassisted marker.
• Augsburg outshot Concordia by a 10-4 margin in the game, including a 6-1 advantage in the first half. Augsburg also had four corner kicks to Concordia's three.
• St. Aubin had four shots in the game, while Callie Athey (FY, Eagan, Minn./Burnsville HS) had three shots and
Ciara Gregory (SO, Cottage Grove, Minn./Park HS) had two shots.
• Augsburg split its goalkeepers for the shutout win -- the Auggies' eighth of the season and sixth in their last seven games. Neither
Emily Chapman (SO, Elburn, Ill./Kaneland HS), who played the first half, nor
Marissa Guillou (SR, Burnsville, Minn./Apple Valley HS), who played in the second half, had to make a save in the game.
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• With the victory, combined with St. Olaf's 1-0 loss to St. Thomas, Augsburg moved into first place by itself in the MIAC standings with 22 league points. St. Olaf has 19 points and St. Thomas has 18 points.
• Augsburg clinched a berth in the six-team MIAC postseason playoffs for the fourth straight season, fifth time in the last six years and ninth time under Head Coach
Mike Navarre.
FOR THE FOES
• Maddy Reid had four saves in goal for the Cobbers.
• Rachel Osmundson had two shots for Concordia.
QUOTES FROM AUGSBURG HEAD COACH MIKE NAVARRE
• "We feel fortunate to have won today and be in the position we are in. The MIAC is filled with solid teams, so to be one of the teams that's in contention the last week of the season is exciting."
UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face St. Thomas on Wednesday (10/25) at 3:30 p.m.
• Concordia hosts Bethel on Wednesday (10/25) at 3:30 p.m.