Nov. 7, 2008

Box Score

River Forest, IL - The Dominican University women's soccer team closed out the season on Wednesday night with a scoreless tie at Edgewood College in the semifinal round of the 2008 Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Women's Soccer Tournament with the Edgewood Eagles earning the right to advance to the championship game on penalty kicks 4-2.

After getting off to a slow start, the Stars built momentum into the second half of play and put pressure on the Eagles, earning six second-half corner kicks to Edgewood's one. However, after ninety minutes in regulation and two ten-minute overtime periods, no winner was decided with the score knotted at 0-0.

In the shootout, the Stars' Jocelyn Camacho (Justice, IL) failed to convert on Dominican's first shot, ripping a shot that beat the Edgewood goalkeeper but banged off the post. After Edgewood's first shooter converted for a 1-0 lead for the Eagles after one shooter apiece, the Stars' Kelly Rounce (Downers Grove, IL) converted her penalty attempt as did the Eagles second shooter. Freshman Liz Phipps (Bloomington, IL), Dominican's third shooter, failed to beat the Eagles' goalkeeper, and Edgewood claimed a 3-1 lead after three shooters. Karly Kuranda (St. Charles, IL) converted her penalty attempt before Edgewood's fourth shooter sealed the Stars' fate as she found the back of the net to give the Eagles the 4-2 shootout victory.

Dominican's junior goalkeeper, Jacqui Lani (Green Bay, WI), logged nine saves on the night as she picked up her seventh shutout of the season and the team's 13th, setting a single-season record for the Stars. In addition, Lani got a hand on two of the Eagles' shots in the shootout but couldn't keep Edgewood out of the back of the net.

On the year, Dominican posted a 13-6-2 overall record despite losing last year's team co-Most Valuable Players, Mayra Camacho (Summit, IL) and Kelly Adler (Naperville, IL), to season ending injuries. The team's.667 winning percentage goes down as one of the top three most successful seasons in the program's history dating back to 1997, behind the 1998 and 2006 seasons. In NAC action, the Stars finished the regular season in third place for the second consecutive season and have not finished worse than fourth since the conference's inception in 2006.

Freshmen Nallely Arreola (Wheeling, IL) and Kuranda finished the season ranked one and two on the team in points with Arreola logging 27 points on nine goals and nine assists, while Kuranda tallied six goals and a team-high 11 assists for a total of 23 points.