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Women's Soccer Dave Beyer, Sports Information Director

Women's soccer tops Concordia Chicago with late goal

Eagles take 2-1 NAC road victory

Melissa Swanson had the match-winning goal at Concordia Chicago.
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RIVER FOREST, Ill. - Benedictine University tallied a late goal to break a deadlock and post a 2-1 win over Concordia University Chicago on Wednesday afternoon. The victory improved the Eagles to 2-8 overall and 2-5 in the Northern Athletics Conference.

The two teams played a scoreless deadlock for the first 70 minutes of the match until the Eagles' Dani O'Toole headed in a corner kick from Rachel Wilson at the 70:26 minute juncture. It was O'Toole's first goal of the season and gave BU the 1-0 advantage.

The Cougars knotted matters at 1-1 in the 76th minute of play.

Then, with just over two minutes left to play, BU's Melissa Swanson took a pass from Wilson and scored the game-winning goal.  It was Swanson's first goal of the year.

Benedictine goalkeeper Melissa Hernandez had three saves in her 90 minutes of work.
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