ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Bethany Lutheran women's soccer team Wednesday traveled to Northwestern for a UMAC semifinal matchup and fell to the Eagles by a score of 5-2. With the loss the Vikings will conclude their season at 11-6-2 overall while UNW moves to 12-6-1 and will face off with UW-Superior in the UMAC Championship.

The Eagles got the scoring started just 11 minutes into this one as Haley Mersberger scored her 27^th goal of the season for the home team. The sophomore who sits second in the nation in goals would add to her total in the 43^rd minute as she was able to knock in a goal with time winding down in the half to put UNW up 2-0 at the break.

Northwestern would score just three minutes into the second half to extend their lead to 3-0 before Asia Jota finally cut into the deficit in the 59^th minute as she scored directly off a corner kick to bring the score to 3-1.

The Eagles would get two more goals in the 69^th and 86^th minute to push their lead to 5-1 before Jota would score another goal on a penalty kick in the 87^th to bring the game to the 5-2 final.

Although they were outscored 5-2, the Vikings outshot Northwestern 29-12 in the contest including 20-7 in the second half and 13-7 in total shots on goal in the game.