ST. LOUIS, MO. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis women's soccer team scored four second half goals in a span of 10 minutes en route to a 4-1 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory over Maryville on Wednesday night in the regular season finale.
The Tritons improve to 11-3-1 overall and in the GLVC and turn their attention to the league's postseason tournament, which begins Sunday. UMSL, the No. 3 seed, will host No. 6 seed Wisconsin-Parkside one of four quarterfinal round games at 1 p.m. Maryville ends its season at 6-11 and 5-10 in the GLVC.
Senior
Kirsten Crabtree broke the scoreless game in the 51
st minute, scoring for the second straight game when she dribbled in from the left and tucked the ball to the inside right post.
Sophomore
McKayla Harder quickly made it 2-0 in the 54
th minute with her low shot to the left side off a one touch pass from senior
Miriam Taylor.
Taylor then picked up her second assist in the 59
th minute as junior
Baylee William's hard shot deflected in off the goalie.
Junior
Emily Mosier rounded out the scoring in the 61
st minute off senior
Taylor Tosovsky's corner kick.
The Saints got on the board in the 62
nd minute.
UMSL fired 24 shots, landing 16 on goal, with Crabtree placing four of her five shots on target. Williams landed all three of her attempts on goal.
Maryville took nine shots, landing six on goal. Freshman
Emily Rish made four saves, playing the first 60:47 in goal, while sophomore
Maggie Harma (18:08) and sophomore
McKenzie DeRouen (11:05) also spent time between the posts .
