ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior Miriam Taylor scored the game-winner in overtime to send the No. 4 seed University of Missouri-St. Louis women's soccer team to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament semifinals with a 2-1 win over No. 5 seed Drury on Sunday afternoon in one of four quarterfinal round games across the league.
 
Taylor scored her team-leading 11^th goal of the season four minutes and 20 seconds into the extra period off a pass from senior Sidney Allen. Allen side-stepped a defender and found a cutting Taylor in the box, who's shot from the right side went into the far left pocket of the goal.
 
UMSL, playing in its first GLVC Tournament since 2011, advances to face top-seeded and No. 18 ranked Bellarmine on Friday in Louisville, Ky., with the Knights serving as host. Game time is still to be announced. UMSL and Bellarmine played to a 2-2 double overtime tie in St. Louis on October 23. The Tritons will be making their first semifinal appearance since 2007.
 
UMSL also improves to 11-3-4 overall with the win, while Drury sees its season end with a 9-5-4 mark.
 
"We knew this game would be a battle," said second-year head coach Wendy Dillinger. "Drury is a great team. They are dynamic and well-organized and have goal scoring threats up top. We knew we would have to minimize our mistakes in the back and capitalize up front. It was a tough game and a hard-fought battle."
 
The Tritons outshot the Panthers, 22-7, including 11-3 in shots on goal, but it was Drury who put the first goal on the board in the 16^th minute when Emily Cline beat the Triton defender and then UMSL keeper Megan Ohm, firing the shot from the left side of the field into the far right corner.
 
UMSL then countered in the 31^st minute on junior Kayla Delgado's seventh goal of the season, picking up the ball on the counter attack and going coast-to-coast for the score. Delgado battled a Panther defender 1-on-1 from midfield forward before picking up another defender 40 yards out. However, Delgado went around both Panther players and shot from nearly 25 yards out on the left side putting the ball into the far right corner for the equalizer.
 
UMSL outshot Drury, 13-4, in the first half, including 5-1 in shots on goal. Five minutes after the Panthers scored, UMSL went on the counter attack on the far right side with freshman McKayla Harder crossing the ball to senior Sidney Allen, whose shot hit the crossbar.
 
Delgado finished with seven shots, placing four on target, while Allen and senior Hunter Wagoner had three shots each.
 
Ohm played all 94:20 between the posts, recording two saves.