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| 2005 Final Record: 6-5-0 MIAC, 13-5-0 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Bethel 2, Saint Mary's 1 / Details Saint Mary's 1, St. Catherine 0 / Details |
| This and That: The Cardinals' 1-0 win over St. Catherine was their 10th shutout win of the season — and their seventh 1-0 victory. … SMU's 13 wins are the most by a Cardinal team since 1994, when they went 16-3-1 and lost to UC-San Diego in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. … Lisa Tlougan (Rochester, Minn.) scored her team-leading sixth goal of the season vs. St. Catherine. … Jennifer Johnson (Racine, Wis.) stopped all four shots she faced vs. St. Catherine, earning her ninth shutout of the season. … Johnson finished the year with a school-record 0.42 goals against average, breaking the old mark of 0.73 set by Steph Voss in 1989. … Kendra Maloney (Green Bay, Wis.) finished the season as the team's leader in assists (6), while sharing the points lead (14) with Tlougan. … SMU held its opponents to one goal or less in 16 of its 18 games. … Eight of the 10 goals given up by the Cardinals were scored in the first half – including both of Bethel’s goals last Wednesday. … The Cardinals, meanwhile, scored 13 goals in the first half, 13 in the second and one in OT. |
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Tlougan Game-winning goal vs. St. Kate's |
Unfortunately for Guinn and the Cardinals, a late-season two-game losing streak dashed any hopes SMU may have had of playing past Saturday's game vs. the Wildcats.
So the Cardinals did the next best thing — they sent their seniors out on a winning note, and laid the foundation for the upcoming 2006 season.
Lisa Tlougan (Rochester, Minn.) scored her team-leading sixth goal late in the first half and Jennifer Johnson (Racine, Wis.) stopped all four shots she faced for her ninth shutout of the season, as the Cardinals beat St. Catherine 1-0 at Ochrymowycz Field.
"It would have been nice to be able to keep playing, but it just wasn't in the cards for us," said Guinn, whose team was officially eliminated from post-season consideration with last Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Bethel. "Losing to Bethel was tough — this groups hates to lose, and they took that (loss) pretty hard.
"But instead of hanging their heads, they used it as motivation for (Saturday)."
Which was good for the Cardinals — and bad for the Wildcats.
SMU dominated the first half, outshooting St. Catherine 7-1 in the opening 45 minutes — and notching the game's only goal when Tlougan took a feed from Bridgette Baggio (Glenview, Ill.) and laced a shot that curved into the upper left-hand corner.
"This game turned out to be a classy way for our seniors to end their collegiate careers," said Guinn, who will be without seniors Anne Suddendorf (Excelsior, Minn.), Courtney Gibson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Mandy Downing (Mendota Heights, Minn.) when the 2006 season rolls around. "Those three seniors have meant a lot to this program and we're going to miss them.
"It was nice that we could send them off with a win in their final game."
It was also nice for the Cardinals to head into the off-season on a winning note.
"There's disappointment, but this team has really accomplished a lot this season," said Guinn, whose team closed out its season with a 13-5-0 overall record — the most wins by a Cardinal team since 1994, when they went 16-3-1 and lost to UC-San Diego in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. "We've been in a lot of very close ball games, and, more often than not, we were able to find a way to win.
"Our goal is to continue to improve every year — we made great strides from last year to this year, and, hopefully, we will be able to continue that trend next season."