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SCORE: Bellarmine 2, USI 1
OWENSBORO, Ky. – University of Southern senior forward
Susan Ellsperman (Newburgh, Indiana) scored the game-winner with 4:34 left in overtime as the Screaming Eagles defeated Kentucky Wesleyan College, 2-1, Wednesday night in Owensboro, Kentucky. USI rises to 10-6-1 overall and 9-5-1 in the GLVC, while KWC women's soccer finishes its GLVC association 1-15-1, 0-14-1 GLVC.
After a scoreless first half, junior forward
Julia Kohnen (Florissant, Missouri) put the Eagles on the scoreboard first with a goal at 61:51 off a pass from freshman defender
Emily Cummings (Cincinnati, Ohio). The 1-0 lead would last until 83:46 when KWC knotted the score at 1-1 and set the stage for overtime.
Ellsperman ended the match from 40-yards, blasting in a pass from sophomore defender
Rachael Mayse (Evansville, Indiana) in overtime for the 2-1. The goal was Ellsperman's team-best eighth of the season.
The Eagles begin GLVC Tournament action for the fourth-straight year Sunday as the sixth seed and will be traveling to fourth-seeded Bellarmine University. Game time is still to be determined.
