Today, the Northland College women's soccer took on the University of Northwestern in the Semi Final game of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference tournament.  The host Eagles were the #1 seed in the tournament, the LumberJills were the #4 seed.  The LumberJills fell in a hard fought battle 3-2.

The Eagles struck first in the game with a goal in the 18^th minute of the half.  Both teams would keep battling but neither were able to find the net the rest of the half.  The half would end with Northwester leading 1-0.  The Eagles outshot the Jills 5-2 in the 1^st half. Alexandra Ritchie had 4 saves in the half.    

The second half the LumberJills came out fast.  Madeleine Wieland would score an unassisted goal for Northland just 4 minutes into the half to tie the game 1-1.  Wieland and the Jills kept pushing and scored again in the 7^th minute of the half.  This time Wieland scored with an assist by Olivia Garceau.  The Jills would hold the 2-1 lead until the 21^st minute of the half when the Eagles would score off of a corner kick, putting the score at 3-2. 

Offensively the Jills were led by Wieland who scored both goals for Northland in the game.  She had 3 shots on goal for the night.  Kaiya Voldberg and Laura Rethmann each had one.  Ritchie had 7 saves on the night.    

The LumberJills end the season with a 10-8-1 (6-3-1 UMAC) record.  Wieland lead the team in goals with 15, that was 6^th best in the UMAC and 3^rd in shots with 82, Kaiya Voldberg had 10 goals on the season, 8^th best in the UMAC.  Keeper Alexandria Ritchie finished the season 3^rd best in Save % at .796.