ROCHESTER, Mich. (11-3-24) - After #HLWSOC All-Freshman Team selection
Sam Sickinger scored the equalizer, junior
Soraya Puerto-Khalil delivered the game-winner, lifting No. 3 seed Detroit Mercy to a 2-1 come-from-behind win over No. 6 seed Purdue Fort Wayne in quarterfinal action on Sunday afternoon. The Titans advanced will now take on No. 2 seed Northern Kentucky in 2024 #HLWSOC Championship semifinal action on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. ET at host Milwaukee.
Graduate student
Marisa Silver picked up her eighth win, making a season second-best eight saves. Junior
Abbey Lodato and freshman
Mya Mascaro assisted on Sickinger's goal while sophomore
Natalia Sobh added her first assist of the season along with the team-best fifth helper from freshman
Kyleen Bradow on the game-winner. UDM (10-7-2) now has reached the 10-win mark for the first time since the 2016 season
PFW (9-10-1) came out of the game hitting on all cylinders as they took a 1-0 lead just nine minutes into the game.
In the 38th minute, Mascaro sent a long ball into the box where Lodato headed it high in the air. Sickinger then got under it and sent a high header of her own into the back of the net for the equalizer, tying the game at 1-1 heading into halftime.
UDM took the lead for good in the 57th minute as a long ball once again got things going. This time, Bradow hit a long-range connection up to Sobh down the left side who took a couple of touches and sent a pass across the top of the box over to a wide-open Puerto-Khalil. She then took a touch into the box and fired a shot into the lower left 90 for the game-winner.
