WARRENSBURG, Mo. – Third-seeded #20 Concordia-St. Paul women's soccer (17-3-3) had its NCAA Central Region Tournament run come to a close, falling 2-0 at second seed #4 Central Missouri (19-2-1) on Sunday afternoon at Jennies Field.
 
Concordia, champions of the Northern Sun (NSIC) during the regular season, conclude a historic season that included program records for overall wins, NSIC wins, best start to a season, longest unbeaten streak, first NSIC championship, first trip to the NSIC Tournament championship game, first NCAA Tournament appearance and first NCAA Tournament victory.
 
NSIC Coach of the Year Steve Bellis commented on his team's historic season after the game, "We had a great freshman group and they pushed us really hard, but we had an extremely strong senior group so combined those together with the bits in the middle it's a great group. Great team chemistry and everyone bring something to the team it's been really fun and really refreshing to see us be so successful and to win so many games." 
 
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In the first half, the Jennies has good ball movement as they held possession 60% of the time in the first half and outshot the Golden Bears 4-1 while putting three shots on net and the Golden Bears had open shot on goal. In the 12^th minute of play the Jennies got on the board first as Kassie Newsom scored on a ball Nayeli Gallo to get Central Missouri up 1-0 in the first half. In the 21^st minute Makayla Toth scored her team leading 18^th goal of the season with an assist from Emily Kramer to give the Jennies a 2-0 lead. The Golden Bear's picked up their place of play and had better ball movement throughout the rest of the half and in the 42^nd minute mark Kiara Myers had a scoring opportunity for the Golden Bears, but it was saved by Lindsey Johnson. Concordia would go into halftime trailing Central Missouri 2-0. Jordyn Clark made one save and faced three corner kicks in the first 45 minutes. Lindsey Anderson made one save in the first half for the Jennies.
 
In the second half of play the Golden Bears picked up their tempo as they controlled the ball most of the half and had great ball movement which set up some scoring opportunities for the Golden Bears. CSP out shot UCM 3-1 in the second half and the Golden Bears put three shots on goal and held the Jennies to one shot on goal. Leah Johnson sent a ball on net in the 50^th minute mark to try and get the Golden Bears on the board early in the second half but Johnson jumped up to make the save. In the 63^rd minute mark Haley Freeman took a shot, but Jordyn Clark made the big save to keep it a 2-0 game. In the 66 minute of play Cayla Renwick had a scoring opportunity but Lindsey Johnson made a great leaping save to punch the ball away. In the 89^th minute Emily Boyer took one last shot for CSP, but Johnson made the save to end the Golden Bears historic season. This was only the fourth game of the season that the Golden Bears were held scoreless.
 
Steve Bellis commented on going up against the 2017 National Champions, "We knew going into it that it would be a challenge and I felt we did enough to be prepared. They are strong and physical and play very well tactically and two fantastic goals against us in the first half."
 
Bellis also commented on how they wanted to approach UCM's leading scored Makayla Toth, "Jackie Ehlert, Jackie is an outstanding fullback she's a great defender, reads the game well, extremely athletic. To be honest I think she did a really good job of putting number 22 in a pocket for most of the game." 
 
Jordyn Clark finished with two saves and faced four corner kicks and recorded only her third loss of the season. Clark finishes with a 26-13-8 record, recording the most career wins as a CSP keeper. Lindsey Johnson made four saves and recorded a shutout in the victory for the Jennies. 
 
Leah Johnson, Emily Boyer, Kiara Myers and Kayla Renwick each recorded a shot on goal in this game. 
 
As a senior class, Jordyn Clark, Leah Johnson, Anna Haub, Hannah Pavek, Jackie Ehlert, Alexa Hepner, Hannah Pedersen, Sammie Zgutowicz and Emily Boyer recorded a 42-26-11 record together in their four years at Concordia, including being part of the most successful team in program history this season. Paving the way for more successful seasons to come at CSP. 
 
2019 SEASON MILESTONES
-Program record in shutouts with 15
-Program record in wins with 17 
-Program record for conference wins with 12
-Had a six-game shutout streak (588 straight minutes of shutout soccer) from October 13^th to November 1^st
-Recorded a seven-game winning streak from October 11^th to November 1^st
-Had a season high of 37 total shots, third in program history, while allowing only one shot, tied for second in program history, in a 2-0 win over Minnesota Crookston on 10/20/19
-Did Not allow a single shot which tied a program record and was the first time ever a Golden Bear team did not allow a shot against a DII opponent in a 3-0 victory over MSU Moorhead on 10/25/19
-Set a program record for most goals scored in against a DII opponent with six against Northern State 10/27/19 
-Won their first ever Regular Season Conference Championship in a 1-0 victory over Minnesota State on November 8th. That was their first ever win over the Mavericks in program history.
-On 9/10/19 CSP was ranked 10th in the Central Region rankings with a 1-0-0 record.
-On 9/17/19 CSP was ranked 9th in the Central Region rankings with a 3-0-0 record
-On 10/1/19 CSP was ranked fourth in the Central Region Rankings with a 6-0-1 record 
-On 10/8/19 CSP was ranked third in the Central Region Rankings with a 7-0-2 record
-On 10/15/19 CSP was ranked second in the Central Region Rankings with a 9-0-2 record
-On 10/22/19 CSP was ranked second in the Central Region Rankings with a 11-0-2 record
-On 10/29/30 CSP remained in second place in the Central Region Rankings with a 13-0-2 record
-On 11/18/19 CSP was selected to their first ever NCAA Central Regional appearance being selected as the three seed. 
-On 10/8/19 CSP was ranked nationally in the NCAA National Rankings poll for the first time in program history sitting at #22 in the nation with a 7-0-2 record
-On 10/25/19 CSP moved up to #16 in the NCAA National Rankings poll with a 9-0-2 record 
-On 10/22/19 CSP remained firmly at #16 in the NCAA National Rankings poll with a 11-0-2 record. 
-On 10/29/19 CSP moved up to #15 in the NCAA National Rankings poll with a 13-0-2 record.
-On 11/5/19 CSP moved to #20 in the NCAA National Rankings poll with a 14-1-2 record
-The Golden Bears won their first playoff game in a 2-0 victory over Wayne State on November 13^th.
-The Golden Bears hosted the NSIC Tournament for the first time ever and played in their first ever NSIC Tournament Championship game. 
-In their first ever NCAA Tournament game, the Golden Bears defeated Northeastern State in a shootout victory
-The Golden Bears had eight members named to All-Conference teams, released by the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) on Thursday morning. Seniors Anna Haub, Hannah Pavek and Jordyn Clark along with junior Haleigh Bares were all named to the All-NSIC First Team, seniors Leah Johnson and Jackie Ehlert were named to the Second Team, and seniors Hannah Pedersen and Alexa Hepner were named to the Third Team.
- Anna Haub win the NSIC's Defensive Player of the Year, Jordyn Clark win the NSIC's Goalkeeper of the Year, Nikki Anderson win the NSIC's Freshman of the year award and head coach Steve Bellis win the NSIC Coach of the year award. Clark, Haub and Anderson all became the first player's in program history to receive their respected awards and coach Steve Bellis became the first head coach to receive the coach of the year award since 2006.
-Concordia-St. Paul's Jordyn Clark, Haleigh Bares and Anna Haub were all named to the D2CCA First Team All-Region. Hannah Pedersen was named to the D2CCA All-Region Second Team. The four selections are the most in team history and bumps Concordia's total to nine in team history. It's the second time in team history the team has had multiple selections in the same year and the first time since the 2006 season when they had a pair of selections.
- Jena Berkland of Concordia-St. Paul was named the 2019 NSIC Elite 18 Award winner for women's soccer.
-Jordyn Clark has set the program record for shutouts in a single season with 12 (12.3)
-Clark has set the program record for single season wins as a keeper with 17.
-The Golden Bear defense has the lowest goals against average in program history with a .58 
-Katie Anderson is tied for second in program history with most goals in a game with three in the 6-0 victory over Northern State on 10/27/19
-Second in the NSIC in total points with 97, second in the NSIC in total goals with 34, leads the NSIC with 12 shutouts. 
-Hannah Pedersen is tied for fifth in the nation with 12 assists
-Concordia leads the NSIC and is ranked 19th in the nation for goals against average with a .57
-Jordyn Clark is tied for fourth in the nation in shutouts
-Jordyn Clark Ranks 20th in the nation with a .867 save percentage
 
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