KANSAS CITY – The University of Denver women's soccer team captured its fifth consecutive Summit League regular-season title with a 2-0 win at Kansas City on Sunday.
Senior
Kaitlyn Glover opened the scoring after tapping the ball into the back of the net off a cross from sophomore
Delaney McGowan that went untouched through the box. Graduate student
Camryn MacMillan scored minutes into the second half, and redshirt senior
Nerea Arrazola made three saves to earn her seventh clean sheet of the season.
COACH'S NOTES:
From head coach
Jeff Hooker: "I felt the team was very gritty this weekend and performed well given a lot of travel. It's difficult going through this conference undefeated. I'm proud of the work our players put into it, and I'm super happy with how our staff supported the team."
SIGNIFICANT STATS:
- Denver has now won the Summit League regular-season title outright for the fourth consecutive year and the seventh time overall. It is also Denver's 13th regular-season conference title since becoming a Division I program in 1998.
- DU finished 8-0-1 in Summit League play for the second year in a row and went undefeated for a fourth time.
- Glover added her team-best third game winner of the season and her second in as many matches.
- It was also the fourth time in the last six matches that Glover had five shots, bringing her to 33 on the season.
- MacMillan scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season, the most in a single season in her career.
FIRST HALF:
5' | Glover tapped the ball through the box to sophomore
Jadyn Goodrich, but her header attempt was punched out by Kansas City's Caldwell.
11' | Juniors
Vanessa Murray and
Megan Prazich combined to get the ball to
Addisyn Hyrup, who clipped the crossbar.
28' | Sophomore
Ella Frost fed the ball up the middle of the field and connected with Glover, but the KC keeper saved the senior's shot.
38' | McGowan beat two KC defenders near the right corner and eventually sent the ball toward the back post where a waiting Glover connected and tapped it into the net.
39' | A Kansas City free kick from 14 yards out cleared over the wall, but Arrazola punched the ball clear of the net.
SECOND HALF:
47' | After winning a battle with a defender, MacMillan chipped the ball up over the KC keeper's outstretched hands, and the ball snuck in after bouncing into the right corner.
53' | Arrazola kept the clean sheet with a dive to her right to ensure a KC attack would not find the back of the net.
60' | Glover sent the ball toward the left post from the edge of the penalty box, but KC's keeper pushed it just wide.
68' | A pair of chances for the Pios resulted in a save on a senior
Hannah Gallegos shot from up the middle and a junior
McKenna Dannenhauer shot into the side of the net.
WHAT'S NEXT:
DU (11-4-3, 8-0-1) will host the first rounds of the 2022 Summit League Women's Soccer Championship, beginning with a quarterfinal match between No. 4 Oral Roberts and No. 5 North Dakota State on Friday, October 28, at 4 p.m. MT. No. 1 Denver will play the winner of Friday's match in the semifinals on Sunday, October 30, at 1 p.m. MT.
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