ST. PAUL, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul (9-5, 6-3 GLIAC) saw its four game winning streak come to a close on Saturday afternoon, falling 16-11 to #12 Indianapolis (15-1, 11-0 GLIAC) on senior day at Sea Foam Stadium.
With their home regular season contests in the books, CSP closes out the regular season slate next Friday in Michigan at #23 Grand Valley State (11-3, 8-1 GLIAC) before a 10 a.m. tilt at Davenport (8-6, 5-4 GLIAC) on Sunday
Senior
Izzy Snow was honored prior to the game as the squad's lone senior in the third year program's class. She followed it up with a hat trick while making her second consecutive start and fired a team-high seven shots with all seven coming on goal.
Juniors
Maddie Hentges and
Alina Boyce each tied
Kailey Heinl's 2017 program record for single season goals (43) as well. It took a hat trick for Hentges to reach the milestone while Boyce needed just one goal. Hentges had a team-high four points while Boyce had a pair as each assisted on a goal in the game.
Concordia trailed by as many as eight goals in the first half, facing a 12-4 deficit with just over seven and a half minutes to play before the break.
From there, the Golden Bears stormed back as five different players scored goals to make it a 12-9 game at the half.
The Golden Bears were facing an opposing defense that had only allowed double-digit goals once all season, and that was in a 17-5 loss to the top-ranked team in the country at the time, LeMoyne on March 2 in Syracuse, New York.
Today, Concordia scratched together nine goals in the first half, a total UIndy hadn't allowed in a full game all season with the exception of the LeMoyne loss. The Greyhounds had allowed only 14 total goals across the previous six games.
The fast-paced first half featured 21 total goals between the two squads
After making three first half saves, junior goalie
Katie Lottsfeldt slowed the Greyhounds in the second half, making six saves and limiting UIndy to four goals after the break. Lottsfeldt's nine save performance puts her at the 350 mark in her career, also adding six ground balls to get to 199 in her three years.
Following the furious end to the first half that saw the Golden Bears go on a scoring rampage that was rare to the UIndy defense and goalie, the pace slowed significantly in the second half on both sides. While CSP held UIndy to just four second half goals, the Greyhounds stopped the Golden Bears to just a pair: a goal by
Katie Moynihan on a feed from
Lex Seifert midway through the half that made it 14-10 UIndy as well as a goal with just under five minutes to go by Snow on a pass from Boyce that would be the game's final goal.
The 11 goals scored by Concordia in the game were the second most scored against UIndy on the season, and CSP's defense held a Greyhound offense to just 16 goals, their third-lowest total of the year. The five goal margin for the Greyhounds was the closest any GLIAC team has played them on the season, and the closest margin of victory for UIndy in its 15 overall wins.
Concordia and UIndy were even on turnovers (18-18) and close in ground balls with UIndy holding a 22-19 edge. Concordia gained five more clears (16-of-19 to 11-of-14) and was perfect in 10 first half clear attempts. But a 20-9 edge by UIndy in draw controls helped the Greyhounds maintain possession advantage to attempt 18 more shots than the Golden Bears in the game (39-21).