Five games and five wins for the Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay women's soccer teams this week.
Yes, there was plenty to celebrate across the state: The No. 14 Golden Eagles extended their home unbeaten streak by winning a pair of Big East Conference matches in overtime, the 15th-ranked Panthers saw senior star striker Sarah Hagen (Appleton North) reach a career milestone and the Phoenix celebrated their annual alumni weekend by ending a five-game losing streak in which they didn't score.
Get all the highlights in our weekly recap of Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay.
Marquette (10-2-0, 3-1-0 Big East)
Thursday: No. 14 Golden Eagles 2, DePaul 1 (OT). Freshman Mady Vicker (Whitefish Bay) picked a great time to score her first collegiate goal, finding the back of the net in the 98th minute to lift Marquette over the Blue Demons (2-7-1, 0-2-1) in a Big East Conference match at Valley Fields. Sophomore forward Maegan Kelly got the Golden Eagles on the board in the sixth minute, chipping in a cross from sophomore Kate Reigle (Brookfield East) for her 10th goal of the season, but DePaul goalkeeper Megan Pyrz made five saves in each half to keep it close and the Blue Demons equalized through Morgan Celaya in the 71st. But Vicker took a feed from junior midfielder Britney Scott at the top of the box, dribbled in and converted from 10 yards out. Sophomores Rebekah Roller (Brookfield East) and Kylie Nordness (Menomonee Falls/Milwaukee DSHA) started for DePaul, while freshman forward Nikki Condit (Pewaukee/Waukesha Catholic Memorial) came off the bench. Kelly became the first Marquette player to score 10 goals in a season since 2002.
Sunday: No. 14 Golden Eagles 3, No. 20 Notre Dame 2 (OT). Sophomore midfielder Taylor Madigan (Waunakee) fired a shot that Fighting Irish goalkeeper Maddie Fox tipped but couldn't stop 18 seconds into overtime as Marquette won a wild Big East match at rainy Valley Fields. The Golden Eagles twice took the lead, the first time on a goal by sophomore midfielder Ashley Stemmeler (Mequon Homestead) just 30 seconds into the game, only to see the defending national champion Fighting Irish (4-5-2, 1-2-1) come back each time. Kelly, who scored Marquette's second to make it 2-1 in the 66th, helped set up the winner. Her long-range shot was deflected at the top of the box and fell to the feet of the onrushing Madigan, who made no mistake and gave the Golden Eagles their first win over Notre Dame since 2005. Senior keeper Natalie Kulla posted her 50th career victory for Marquette, which outshot the Irish 19-9 – Notre Dame came in averaging 23 shots per game – and extended its home unbeaten streak to 16 games. The Golden Eagles are 15-0-0 all-time when Kelly scores and have won all four of their overtime matches this season.
Up next: at Louisville, 6 p.m. Thursday; at Cincinnati, noon Sunday.
UW-Green Bay (3-7-2, 1-2-0 Horizon)
Sunday: Phoenix 2, Cleveland State 1. Sophomore defender Ahna Logan and senior midfielder Corey Arno (Winnebago) scored their first goals of the season six minutes apart in the final quarter hour as UW-Green Bay held off the Vikings (7-4-0, 0-2-0) in a Horizon League match at soggy Santaga Stadium to end a streak of five consecutive 1-0 losses. "We got a much-needed win today," said Phoenix coach Trevor Warren, whose team scored on its only two shots on goal. Senior keeper Maddie Drusch (Appleton Xavier) made five stops to become the program's career leader in saves – she now has 355, bettering the mark of 352 set by Laura Sandt (1994 to '97). "Maddie just keeps teams out of the net," Warren said. "Very rarely does she make mistakes and rarely do teams ever get more than one goal on us, which means we're always in the game. She's had a fantastic career so far and I'm very happy that she was able to achieve this record." Logan scored off a rebound after freshman defender Jenna Harrington (Madison La Follette) hit the crossbar in the 75th, while Arno headed in a free kick by sophomore Hekla Palmadottir in the 81st. Cleveland State's Jaime Avona cut the lead in half in the 85th on a penalty kick, but Green Bay held on.
Up next: at Detroit, 1 p.m. Saturday.
UW-Milwaukee (10-1-0, 2-0-0 Horizon)
Friday: No. 15 Panthers 4, Western Illinois 0. Senior forward Laurel Ragalie (Kenosha Bradford) scored twice in nine minutes during a four-goal second half as UW-Milwaukee dominated the Leathernecks (6-3-0) in a non-conference match at Engelmann Stadium. Hagen drew and converted a penalty kick in the 54th to open the scoring and then set up Ragalie's first goal four minutes later for the the Panthers, who had a 31-6 advantage in shots. "We made some adjustments as the game went on and I thought in the second half played very well," said UWM coach Michael Moynihan, whose team scored all of its goals in 20 minutes – capped by senior Makenzie Gillaspie's 74th-minute penalty. "We moved the ball a lot quicker and generated a lot of scoring opportunities." Panthers junior Jamie Forbes made three saves for her sixth clean sheet of the season. Western Illinois coach Tony Guinn (UW-Platteville), who coached at Racine St. Catherine's from 1990 to 2001, had four Wisconsin natives in his starting lineup: Sophomores Amber Davis (Milton), Jordan Spaciel (Waterford) and Kristin Becker (Brookfield Central) and freshman Gina Scaffidi (Brookfield Central).
Sunday: No. 15 Panthers 2, Detroit 1: Hagen scored her 13th goal of the season on a rebound in the 67th minute, snapping a tie and recording her fourth consecutive game-winner to lead UWM over the Titans (8-4-1, 1-1-0) in Horizon action at rain-soaked Engelmann. "Detroit really tested us in the first half. I was happy with the way our players stepped up to the physical challenges that Detroit poses. They are a big, physical team," Moynihan said. "I thought we figured it out in the second half." Hagen also assisted on the opening goal, playing a ball that Keara Thompson crossed to Helen Steinhauser for the header in the 10th. After Abby McCollum pulled Detroit even in the 59th, Panthers freshman Kelly Lewers fired a shot from the corner of the box that Titans keeper Nora Abolins saved, only to have Hagen crash in and deposit the rebound into the net for her 80th goal in 76 career matches – coming into this season, only 18 players in NCAA Division I women's soccer history had reached 80 goals.