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INDIANAPOLIS – No. 5 seed Bellarmine University and No. 7 seed Rockhurst University will compete for the 2018 Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Soccer Championship on Sunday, Nov. 4 at Woehrle Athletic Complex in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Five goals were scored in the evening session, as Rockhurst advanced on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie with No. 3 University of Southern Indiana while Bellarmine made it look easy with a 3-0 shutout over top-seeded Truman State University.
USI struck first early with a close-range header by Maggie Winter in the seventh minute off a Kennedy Moore cross. In the 52nd minute, it was GLVC Offensive Player of the Year to GLVC co-Freshman of the Year, as Stephanie Ostrander dished a cross to McKenna Leetch that she hit first time from just inside the box to get the equalizer for Rockhurst. Neither team could come up with the advantage through the remainder of regulation and 20 minutes of overtime, so the teams faced off in a penalty kick shootout. The Screaming Eagles shot first, but Hawks goalkeeper Rosie Breheny set the stage with a big save. USI keeper Emily Hopkins would answer with a save, but Rockhurst buried its three remaining kicks and Breheny turned back another USI kick to secure the 4-3 advantage in the shootout. The Hawks punched their second ticket to the championship match, doing it first in 2016.
In the nightcap, it was all Bellarmine, all game. The Knights started their scoring onslaught in the 7th minute with Natalie Teo’s eventual game-winning header from Audrey Van Der Elst’s corner kick. Van Der Elst then turned around in the 30th minute to tally a goal of her own that gave Bellarmine a 2-0 lead at halftime. The team’s hat trick came in the 64th minute by way of Olivia Taylor, who took a shot from the right side of the 18-yard box just over top and out of reach of the Truman keeper for the unassisted score. This will be the third time Bellarmine has played for the coveted Conference crown and first since 2011.
Sunday’s title match will take place at 3 p.m. ET and be streamed live and for free on
GLVCSN.com, the GLVCSN iOS and Android mobile apps, and GLVCSN OTT apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. Visit the official Championship Tournament homepage for more details at
GLVCsports.com/2018soccer.