Box Score
The Scots cruised past St. Olaf 5-0 in an MIAC semi-final match on a snowy night at Macalester Stadium. Macalester advances to 13-4-1 and will play in the MIAC championship match against regular-season league champ St. Benedict at St. John's University Saturday at noon (St. Ben's beat Concordia 2-1 earlier today). The winner of that contest receives the MIAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs, while the loser will have to wait for a possible at-large bid. This will be Mac's fifth appearance in an MIAC title game and first since 2009.
Mac goalkeeper
Ellen Palmquist (Sr., Fort Collins, Colo. / Poudre) kept the Oles off the scoreboard, making two saves in the process, and five different Scots tallied one goal apiece as the Scots improved their all-time conference tournament record to 7-4-2. Macalester is 10-1 over its past 11 games. The Scots out-shot their guests 23-7, including 14-2 in tries on net, and scored two of their five goals on penalty kicks.
Ingrid Greene bombed one from about 35-yards out to get the scoring started at 24:37, and that was all the scoring until the second half. Mac went up 2-0 when
Georgia Cloepfil (Sr., Portland, Ore. / Lincoln), the MIAC goal-scoring leader, converted a PK at 70:01 for her 18th goal of the season and 38th of her career.
Margaret Nemetz (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich. / Pioneer) made it 3-0 in the 78th minute with her first goal of the season and third of her collegiate career.
Bonnie Gale (Jr., Anchorage, Alaska / South Anchorage) converted Macalester's second penalty kick to increase the lead to 4-0 in the 86th minute. With just 1:27 left on the clock in regulation,
Hannah Pollard-Garber (So., Rockville, Md. / Thomas Sprigg Wootton) put the finish touches with a score from a long ways out to make it 5-0. Pollard-Garber also assisted on the goal by Nemetz.
With her 18th tally of the season, Cloepfil becomes just the fourth player in the history of the program to score as many as 18 in a single season, joining Jenny Scanlon (21 goals in 1992), Annie Borton (20 in '04) and Tawni Epperson (19 in '98).
Photo above: Bonnie Gale (No. 11) was one of five players to score for Macalester.
