No. 2E BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES (14-3-2, 11-3-2 PSAC East) at No. 1W GANNON GOLDEN KNIGHTS (13-2-4, 11-1-4 PSAC West)
PSAC SEMIFINALS
DATE/TIME: Friday, November 4, 2022 | 3:00 p.m.
STADIUM/LOCATION: McConnell Family Stadium l Erie, Pa.
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TICKETS
Tickets are required to attend the PSAC Tournament and must be purchased with cash only. The price is $10 for adults and seniors, and $5 for non-PSAC students, including K-12. Students with an ID from a PSAC school are free. Pre-K children are also free.

THE PSAC WOMEN'S SOCCER TOURNAMENT
QUARTERFINALS
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 (Quarterfinals at higher seed)
Game 1: No. 2 West Mercyhurst 1, No. 3 West Slippery Rock 0
Game 2: No. 1 East West Chester 2, No. 4 East East Stroudsburg 1
Game 3: No. 2 East Bloomsburg 2, No. 3 East Kutztown 0
Game 4: No. 1 West Gannon 2, No. 4 West Seton Hill 0
 
Friday, November 4, 2022 (Semifinals at McConnell Family Stadium)
Game 5: No. 2 West Mercyhurst vs. No. 1 East West Chester, 12 noon
Game 6: No. 2 East Bloomsburg vs. No. 1 West Gannon, 3 p.m.
 
Sunday, November 6, 2022 (Final at McConnell Family Stadium)
Game 7: Mercyhurst-West Chester winner vs. Bloomsburg-Gannon winner, 1 p.m.


GOING FOR FINALS BERTH
  
ERIE, Pa. –  The Gannon University women's soccer team is one win away from a program first, but the Golden Knights first must get past one of the premier defensive teams in the PSAC.
Gannon will host the PSAC Final Four beginning Friday with a pair of semifinal games at McConnell Family Stadium. Mercyhurst and West Chester will meet in the opener at noon, followed by Bloomsburg and Gannon at 3 p.m.

Bloomsburg, the No. 2 seed from the PSAC East, has allowed just seven goals all season while recording 14 shutouts and allowing an average of 0.37 goals per game. The Huskies will take on a Gannon team that is looking for the program's first-ever berth in the PSAC West finals.

Since joining the PSAC in 2008, the Gannon women's soccer team has reached the PSAC semifinals five times. It lost each of those semifinals. After Tuesday's quarterfinal win over Seton Hill, Gannon is now 6-5 all-time in the PSAC quarterfinals and 6-10 in the PSAC Tournament.

Bloomsburg finished second in the PSAC East with two of its losses coming to top-seeded West Chester by scores of 3-1 and 1-0. No other team has scored more than one goal against the Huskies.


GANNON VS. BLOOMSBURG HISTORY

Gannon is 8-10-2 against Bloomsburg all-time. Many of coach Colin Petersen's players have recent history against the Huskies. Bloomsburg eliminated Gannon from the 2021 NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional with a 2-1 overtime victory in the opening round.

 
ALL-PSAC MATCHUPS

Ten players who made the PSAC All-Star Teams will play in the Gannon-Bloomsburg game.

Gannon had the PSAC West Athlete of the Year, senior forward Sarah Fails (Girard, Pa./Villa Maria), and the Freshman of the Year, Ella Fadale (Brockport, N.Y./Brockport). Both made the PSAC First Team, along with senior defender Leah Bermudez (Milton, Ontario/Jean Vanier Catholic). Sophomore midfielder Gabby Boden (Butler, Pa./Butler) made the PSAC West Second Team. Colin Petersen was named Coach of the Year.

Bloomsburg's PSAC East All-Star honorees included graduate forward Nicole Varano, junior midfielder Alivia Gallardo, and freshman defender Lorelei Hartzfeld on the First Team. Senior goalie Riley Springler made the Second Team, along with senior forward Paige Harris, and sophomore defender Erin Ranegan.


STAT LEADERS

Gannon senior Sarah Fails (Girard, Pa./Villa Maria) led the PSAC with 10 goals and 25 points during the regular season. Gabby Boden (Butler, Pa./Butler) paces Gannon with six assists and ranked second with 14 points. Ella Fadale (Brockport, N.Y./Brockport) ranks second the team with six goals. Goalie Kennedy Solymosi (Eastlake, Ohio/Lake Catholic) is 10-2-4 with 59 saves and a 0.87 GAA.
Nicole Varano paces Bloomsburg with nine goals and 21 points. The rest of the Huskies' lineup is very balanced as no other player has more than three goals or nine points. Goalie Riley Springler is 13-3-2 with 74 saves and 0.37 GAA.

 
PLAYOFF CHANGE

Earlier this year the NCAA eliminated overtime play during the regular season. However, overtime is back for the postseason.
Should teams play to a tie after regulation, there will be two 10-minute overtimes that will be played to completion. If the teams are tied after the second overtime, the teams will go to a five-round shootout. If there is still a tie after five rounds, the shootout will continue one round at a time until one team leads after a completed round.