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Members of the Daemen Women's Soccer Team sprint off the bench after defeating Queens
Geoff Schneider
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Queens (NY) QUEENS (10-7-1, 4-3-0)
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Winner Daemen DAEMEN (9-8-0, 6-1-0)
Queens (NY) QUEENS
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Final
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Daemen DAEMEN
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Queens (NY) QUEENS 0 1 1
Daemen DAEMEN 1 3 4

Game Recap: Women's Soccer | | CONTACT: Max Sacco, Assistant Athletics Communications Director | msacco@daemen.edu

Women's Soccer Punches Ticket to ECC Championship Title Game with Win Over Queens

AMHERST, N.Y. – The Daemen University women's soccer team punched their ticket to the East Coast Conference Championship title game for the second consecutive season with a resounding 4-1 win over Queens College on a rainy Sunday at Karrer Field.
 
The second-seeded Wildcats (9-8 overall) will head downstate to Long Island to face 2024 ECC regular season champions Molloy University (11-4-2 overall) in a rematch of the 2023 East Coast Conference Championship title game on Nov. 16 at 12 p.m. The Lions punched their ticket to the final with a 2-1 win over fourth-seeded Mercy University this afternoon. As for Queens, which earned the first postseason victory in their program's history earlier this week, they end the year with a 10-7-1 record.

WSOC Final Bracket
 
HIGHLIGHTS
• With steady downpours throughout the match, Daemen broke a 0-0 deadlock in the 38th minute as Queens keeper Samantha Hines-Hirsch mishandled a ball in the box. Kaitlyn Wright (Geneva, N.Y.) collected the loose ball and buried it into the back of the net for the first goal of the contest.
• The Knights tied the game early in the second half as they sent a free-kick into the box that bounced around before Queens' Jenna Rosenberger deflected the ball into the net. 
• Daemen took the lead for good in the 71st minute as reigning ECC Offensive Player of the Year Kylie Miranto (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) sprinted past the Queens defense and slotted a ball into the low left corner of the net to make it a 2-1 contest.
• Less than two minutes later, Daemen was awarded a penalty kick after Miranto was dragged down in the box. On the ensuing shot, Hines-Hirsch saved the kick from All-ECC Second Team selection Madita Zeitz (Malsch, Germany) to keep the score at 2-1.
• The Wildcats continued to pressure the Knights backline and broke through again in the 79th minute as Miranto crossed a ball that found the head of Wright for her second goal of the day.
• After the goal, Anna Tavantzis picked up a yellow card followed immediately by a red card which dropped the Knights to ten players for the remainder of the contest.
• Zeitz closed out the scoring in the 80th minute by curling a ball off a corner kick into the lower left corner of the net.
• In net, All-ECC Second Team honoree Becca Schultz (Grand Island, N.Y.) made nine saves in the winning effort while Hines-Hirsch tallied five stops of her own. Both keepers played the full 90 minutes.
• Daemen held a 16-13 edge in shots and took the only two corner kicks of the match.
   
GAME NOTES
• Wright scored two-or-more goals in a game for the first time this season. 
• Now at 79 career points after her three-point outing this afternoon, Miranto is fourth in program history for career points. With 33 career goals, she also is three away from moving into third all-time for career goals.
• Daemen scored four-or-more goals in a game for the first time since they defeated Roberts Wesleyan, 5-2, on Sept. 24.
• Schultz increased her season save total to 147, extending her record for saves in a single season during the Wildcats' NCAA Division II era (2015-present).
• Along with Schultz, All-ECC selections Nevada Hahn (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Magda Carpenter (Lebanon, Conn.) along with Natalie Krelie (Bath, N.Y.) played the entire contest.
• Daemen was making its fourth-straight and fifth overall appearance in the ECC Championship tournament. The Wildcats are looking for their first ECC tournament title. Today also marked the first meeting between Daemen and Queens in the postseason.
 
UP NEXT
Daemen will look to avenge their loss in the 2023 ECC Championship finals when they head to Long Island to face top-seeded Molloy. First kick is slated for 12 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Rockville Centre Sports Complex. Molloy defeated Daemen 1-0 in the teams' regular-season meeting back on Oct. 5. The winner of Saturday's game earns at automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship. 
 

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