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Team	1	2	Final
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Goals:

1. 59:26 CC Morgan Bain (9) (unassisted)

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Game Recap:

MOORHEAD, Minn. (11/01/06)-- Concordia and Augsburg prepared for the upcoming cold weather by staging their own winter survival outing on Wednesday in the semifinals of the MIAC playoffs. Cobber senior record-setting forward Morgan Bain was the only player that had enough magic to heat up the afternoon as she scored the game-winning goal that enable the Cobbers to scratch out a 1-0 victory over the Auggies on Wednesday in Moorhead.

Concordia will now advance to the MIAC Championship game for the third straight season. Unlike the previous two, the Cobbers will not have to face Macalester and not have to play on the road. Concordia, the No.1 seed in the tournament, will host No.2-seeded Carleton who beat the Scots 1-0 in Northfield on Wednesday.

The Knights' victory over Macalester also means that a team other than the Scots will win the conference tournament for the first time since the league went to a postseason playoff in 2003.

The Cobbers are now 12-5-2 on the season and 2-3-1 in their four MIAC playoff appearances. Concordia is 2-0-1 in conference tournament games played at home. Despite making the league playoffs for the third straight year, Augsburg is still in search of their first playoff victory. They are now 0-3 in conference tournament play. The Auggies finish their 2006 season with a 10-6-2 mark and will now await word on whether they are awarded one of the at-large bids into the NCAA Tournament.

Concordia held a 14-4 advantage in shots on goal for the game but neither team was able to come up with anything resembling a quality chance on goal. The Cobbers and Auggies traded spurts in the first half where one team would hold the better part of the play.

The second half began with the Auggies finding an offensive rhythm and holding the ball in the Cobber end of the field for the first few minutes of play. The halftime energy finally wore off and Concordia started to build their attack from the middle of the field. The Cobbers continually chipped away at the Augsburg defense by getting behind on the wings.

The pivotal point of the game came when Bain won possession of the ball 40 yards outside the Auggie goal on the right side of the field. She then took a few dribbles to clear herself and then cut the ball into the inside past a defender. With her next touch she launched a screaming shot that heated up the cold afternoon and found the upper left corner of the net to put Concordia up 1-0 at 59:26.

The game went back-and-forth until the final eight minutes when Augsburg made a final push to get the game-tying goal. The closest they came was in the final two minutes on a goalmouth scramble where the ball ricocheted around the middle of players by the penalty spot before being cleared out of play by a Cobber defender.

In the end, Concordia goalie Britt Reiersgord needed to make only one save to earn her 11th shutout of the season. She continues to improve on her school record total for shutouts in a single season and overall career shutouts. She now has 19 shutouts in her first two years of play.

Augsburg goalie Maggie DeGroot made six stops in the game including a nice full-out diving save in the first half on a Bain offering.

Bain finished the game with a game-high six shots. Senior midfielder Suzy Grabko added three more. Four different Augsburg players had one shot each. The most dangerous chance came from the foot of substitute Katie Medd who tracked down a ball behind the Concordia defense in the first half, but her shot from inside the penalty area went just wide to the right.

Concordia owned the 14-4 edge in total shots, but also held a 7-1 advantage in shots on goal. The Cobbers had the upper hand in corner kicks as well (4-2).

Concordia will now host the Knights on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. at the Jake Christiansen Athletic Complex where the Cobbers are 5-0 this season and 29-3-1 in th past four seasons. Tickets for the game can be purchased at the gate and are $7.00 for adults and $3.00 for students.

The game will feature live statistics. As soon as the play happens on the field, internet users are able to see the play on the updated statistics page. The live statistics feature can be accessed, free of charge, at: The Live Statistics Page.