Finn For Four – Senior goalkeeper clean sheet guides Mside

SIOUX CITY, IOWA – Doing as they've done many times this season, Morningside University turned to its senior netminder to help produce a key Great Plains Athletic Conference result Saturday, Oct. 30.

Locking up the number five seed in the 2021 conference postseason tournament, senior Sarah Finn (Tampa, Fla.) allowed herself and her Class of 2022 teammates to have a memorable final regular-season outing on the home FieldTurf of the Elwood Olsen Stadium pitch. With visiting Dakota Wesleyan University rattling off 12 total shot tries, she and her backline mates had to be in sync, which they were over 90 minutes.

The Floridian knocked away three shot-on-goal attempts to keep DWU's side of the scoreboard blank. On the other end of the field, head coach Tom Maxon's offense did all it could to break through against Tiger goalkeeper Isabella Gregg. With a nearly two-to-one shots advantage, including nine on frame, another senior stepped to the forefront in the form of midfielder Makenzie Homan (Omaha, Neb.). She took a pass from freshman forward Ebba Torgner (Mjoelby, Sweden) and lofted a high-arching shot from the left side of the box that got over Gregg's leaping attempt for the lone goal of the evening. 

Homan rifled seven total offensive attempts, three of which were on goal. Sophomores Sina Feeser (Heilbronn, Germany), a midfielder, and Jil Hellerforth (Luedensheid, Germany), a forward, added two shot on goal tries apiece. 

With an 11-5-1 record, the Mustangs take a season-best four-match win streak on the road to Midland University Thursday, Nov. 4, for the quarterfinal round of the 2021 GPAC tournament. Start time is 6:30 p.m. at Midland's Heedum Field.

NOTES: Finn's shutout was her fifth of the season and third in her last four appearances … Morningside takes a current string of nearly 448 minutes into the loop quarterfinals … Homan's game-winner was her first of the season and fifth of her career.