Crookston, Minn.- The Golden Eagle soccer team hosted the Golden Bears of Concordia University, St. Paul for a NSIC match, Saturday afternoon, that would end in a 0-0 draw, earning each team a point in the NSIC standings.
 
UMC had their best chance of the game, early in the first half, as forward Lorna McCall (So., Chicago, Ill.) blasted a shot from her left foot that was on the mark but the Golden Bears keeper Emily Nelson (So., Brooklyn Park, Minn.) made a great diving save to her left. A few minutes later, UMC keeper Lexie Gauger (Sr., Green Bay, Wis./Criminal Justice) stopped one of two great CSP opportunities as Gauger left her net, in a heads up play, to stop a break away opportunity. Gauger again came up big in the 57^th minute as she stopped a shot point blank, then her defense blocked two more close up shots off the pair of rebounds.
 
The final scoring opportunity of the game came in the last minute of regulation play as the Golden Bears were given a free kick from just outside the box. The ensuing shot went over the UMC goal, knotting things up at 0-0 through two periods. Neither team had any great scoring opportunities through the two ten-minute overtime periods where Concordia out shot UMC 2-1 in the bonus play. Gauger made the only save of overtime.
 
The Golden Eagles (2-6-1, 1-4-1) will return to the pitch in Crookston tomorrow afternoon as they host the Mavericks of Minnesota State University Mankato (4-3-1, 3-3) at noon. The Mavericks dropped their Saturday game, 3-1, to Bemidji State University.
 
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The University of Minnesota Crookston is an NCAA Division II Institution and a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). The Golden Eagle Equestrian team is a member of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA).