UB Women's Soccer Advances To Sunday's CACC Championship Final By Besting Host Holy Family, 4-2, In A Shootout
Purple Knights Head Into Sunday's Final Unbeaten In Their Last 16 Outings At 12-3-5 Overall
| Final | 1 | 2 | OT | OT2 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bridgeport
(12-3-5)
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Holy Family
(7-5-8)
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team Stats
Holy Family : 23/ N 8/ N 27/ Y 10/ Y
Bridgeport wins shootout 4 - 2
Holy Family
| Game Statistics | Bridgeport | Holy Family |
|---|---|---|
| Shots (on goal) | 32 (12) | 14 (5) |
| Saves | 5 | 12 |
| Fouls | 16 | 14 |
| Corner Kicks | 1 | 2 |
| Offsides | 3 | 1 |
Philadelphia, Pa.-After battling the number five seed and tournament championship host, the Tigers of Holy Family University to a 0-0 double overtime draw, the top-seeded University of Bridgeport women's soccer team advanced to Sunday's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Championship Tournament Final by using some timely goalkeeping and not missing an attempt from the penalty spot to win the shootout, 4-2. The Purple Knights will now face the winner of Friday's other semifinal between Chestnut Hill and Caldwell at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday at Holy Family in Philadelphia. Friday's match officially goes into the books as tie, so UB is now 12-3-5 on the season and head into the CACC Final on a 16-match unbeaten streak with 11 wins and five ties. The Tigers close out their 2022 season with a 7-5-8 overall record.
Bridgeport dominated the run of play during the 110 minutes of action during the match, as the Purple Knights outshot Holy Family, 32-14, but the were kept off the scoreboard by a couple of posts and Holy Family goalkeeper Brianna Pudlo, the CACC's 2022 Keeper of the Year, making several outstanding saves amongst her 12 stops on the day.
UB's shot stopper Clara Karlsson (So., Örnsköldsvik, Sweden) picked up her eight clean sheet of the year making five saves during regulation and the two overtimes and remained unbeaten with a 12-0-5 season mark.
After Pudlo made three saves in the extra 20 minutes of action to send the match into the shootout to see who would advance to Sunday's Final, Karlsson, who stopped four of five penalties during the regular season, continued to show her skill in that area stopping Holy Family's first two attempts from the spot. Those stops would give UB the breathing room it needed to close things out when the first four Purple Knights converted their chance from the spot, as Vivien Ruettgers (Jr., Munich, Germany), Samantha St. Pierre (Jr., Granby, Conn.) plus freshman Solune Moll (Bern, Switzerland) scored plus sophomore Angelina LoFranco (Greenacres, Fla.) ended things with kick number four.
The winner of Sunday's CACC Women's Soccer Championship Final will receive and automatic bid the the following week's NCAA Division II East Regional.
PHOTO BY CLARUS MULTIMEDIA