http://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/15/WSOC_1116094214.aspxWomen's Soccer

Concordia-Moorhead scored three second half goals to beat the Scots 3-1 Sunday night at Macalester Stadium in an NCAA Division III second-round playoff game as the Scots wind up their season with a 14-6-3 record. No. 8-ranked Concordia, the MIAC regular-season champs, improve to 18-0-2 and move on to the Sweet 16, where they will play next weekend against Lynchburg (Va.). Jordan Eckstein scored Macalester's goal. View Mac’s goal by Jordan Eckstein ]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/16/WSOC_1116091507.aspxWomen's Soccer

Riding on camels and living in yurts were just part of the summer for Maddie Mette, a senior from Burnsville and a two-time All-MIAC defender for the women's soccer team, spent late July and early August in Mongolia taking part in a geology research trip. Mette was a member of a Keck Geology Consortium field excursion that took several professors and a dozen students to a remote section of southwestern Mongolia to study fossils and rocks in the Gobi-Altai area. Read the story here ]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/14/WSOC_1115092735.aspxWomen's Soccer

Macalester shut out visiting St. Scholastica 3-0 in an opening-round NCAA Division III playoff match and will take on MIAC rival Concordia-Moorhead in a second-round contest tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Macalester Stadium. Emily Bardwell netted her 15th and 16th goals of the season and Erica DeJong scored her first career goal to lead the Scots, who out-shot the Saints 8-0 in attempts on net. View Bardwell's first goal ]]>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/12/WSOC_1112095547.aspxWomen's Soccer

Three Macalester standouts have been named to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) all-conference squad as selected by league coaches: defender Maddie Mette, midfielder Maddy Cochrane and forward Emily Bardwell. These three led Macalester to a third-place 7-3-1 conference mark and 13-5-2 overall record heading into this weekend’s national playoffs. ]]>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/9/WSOC_1109092130.aspxWomen's Soccer

Macalester has been selected as an at-large team to the NCAA Division III women’s soccer championship playoffs and will be the host site for matches Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 14-15). Macalester, the MIAC playoff runners-up, will come into nationals with a 13-5-2 record and will host the College of St. Scholastica (17-3-2) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.. Also playing that day at Macalester Stadium will be Concordia-Moorhead (16-0-2) and Dubuque (Ia.) (15-5-1) at 5 p.m. website for the Macalester bracket ]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/7/WSOC_1108092826.aspxWomen's Soccer

Fourth-seeded Carleton beat No. 3-seed Macalester 3-0 Saturday night in St. Paul to win the MIAC playoff championship and advance to the NCAA Division III playoffs, which get underway next week. The Scots, who had won six of their previous seven games and four straight by shutout, will wait to see if their 13-5-2 record is good enough to get into nationals. ]]>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/3/WSOC_1103095601.aspxWomen's Soccer

Macalester scored early and held off host St. Thomas in an MIAC semi-final match, and advances to play Carleton at home this coming weekend for the conference playoff championship and an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III playoffs. Carleton advanced past Concordia on a penalty kick shootout in Moorhead Tuesday. The Scots host Carleton Saturday (Nov. 7) at 7:30 p.m. ]]>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/1/MSOC_1101091001.aspxMen's Soccer, Women's Soccer

The Macalester men’s and women’s soccer teams clinched MIAC playoff berths with wins this past weekend and are set for conference semi-final tilts this Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov. 3-4). MIAC playoff winners receive automatic berths in the NCAA Division III championship playoffs. The women play Tuesday at St. Thomas and the men play host to St. Olaf Wednesday night. Complimentary tickets for both Tuesday's match at UST and Wednesday night's home match will be available to Macalester students. Mac students can pick up tickets at the Campus Center Information Desk beginning at 11 a.m. today by showing their Mac ID card. ]]>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/11/2/WSOC_1102091608.aspxWomen's Soccer

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 5 women's soccer teams have been announced and Macalester defender and team captain Kelsey Speer has received third-team honors, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). ]]>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://athletics.macalester.edu/news/2009/10/31/WSOC_1031091111.aspxWomen's Soccer

For the seventh time in the seven-year history of the event, the Macalester Scots will be part of the four-team MIAC playoffs, which get underway Tuesday (Nov. 3) with a semi-final tilt at St. Thomas. The Scots earned their way in with a 3-0 triumph Saturday at home against Hamline on Senior Day. Macalester jumped on top of Hamline on Lucy Miner’s first goal of the season in the 16th minute, while Emily Bardwell added her 12th and 13th goals of the campaign later in the half. View Lucy Miner's goal ]]>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT