Game Scoreboard:

Team	1	2	1OT	20T	PK	Final
	1	0	0	0	3	1
	0	1	0	0	4	2

Game Scoring:

1. 27:31 CAR Sophie Wood (1)

2. 58:43 CC Amy Ravenhorst (5) Suzy Grabko;

SHOOTOUT RESULTS: Carleton College: 4/N 6/N 20/Y 9/N 13/Y 7/Y 3/N Concordia College: 16/N 19/Y 23/N 22/Y 15/N 25/Y 26/Y

Concordia College wins shootout 4-3

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Game Recap:

MOORHEAD, Minn. (11/04/06)-- Concordia and Carleton staged a dramatic conference championship game that lasted over 2 hours and 40 minutes and went to the seventh shooter in a penalty kick shootout. In the end, Michelle Synhorst knocked home the game-winning goal to send the team, and crowd of over 370 people, into a frenzy.

The game officially goes into the record books as a 1-1 tie but by virtue of the penalty kick victory, the Cobbers earn the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. It will be the first time in the history of the program that Concordia will play in the NCAA playoffs. The Cobbers also captured their first MIAC playoff title after winning the MIAC regular season crown earlier in the year.

The game moves both the Cobbers and Knights overall season record to 12-5-3. Carleton will now have to wait until Sunday night to see if they earn one of the at-large bids into the NCAA Tournament.

Concordia took control of the game in the early part of the first half, continually making attacks into the back of the Carleton defense. Their best chance came from the foot of Suzy Grabko who knocked a centering pass over the crossbar at the 9:45 mark.

Carleton finally found their legs after 20 minutes and started to establish control in the middle of the field through the presence of their midfielders.

The midfielders work was rewarded when the Knights earned two corner kicks in the span of five minutes. On the second corner, Sophie Wood deftly deflected Mia Zutz' corner attempt to the back post with a header that beat Concordia goalie Britt Reiersgord.

Carleton controlled the play for the remainder of the first half but was never able to get another quality chance at goal.

The second half started with the Cobbers on the offensive from the tip of the ball. Concordia was outshot 7-3 in the opening 45 minutes but then turned around and dominated the Knights in the second half, outshooting Carleton 11-1.

The game-tying goal came in the 59th minutes when Grabko flighted a centering pass diagonally through the back of the Carleton defense that found Amy Ravenhorst in full stride on the left wing. Ravenhorst was able to hit the ball and drop it over the top of Carleton goalie Yusi He who got caught trying to come out and stop the crossing attempt. For Ravenhorst it was her fifth goal of the season.

Concordia continued to apply pressure in the second half but was repeatedly turned away by the play of He in the Carleton net.

The teams started to tie at the end of a grueling 90 minutes of regulation and neither could come away with a solid strike on net.

In the two overtime periods, both teams played conservatively and were not about to allow a quick strike. After two, 10-minute extra sessions, the game was sent into a penalty kick shootout.

After both teams traded misses on the first shot, Concordia took a one-goal lead after Morgan Bain slotted her spot kick into the side of the net.

Zutz made the next kick for the Knights, and after Becky Lewis made her kick, Concordia held a 2-1 lead after four attempts. Wood then responded with a successful try on the team's fifth kick, leaving the game in the balance with Grabko at the spot with a chance to win the game. Her kick sailed just over the crossbar and the team's went into sudden death.

Megan Molteni stepped up and gave Carleton a one-goal advantage on the sixth kick. Vanessa Kowalski then calmly put the do-or-die kick into side netting and the shootout wore onto the seventh round.

Reiersgord came up with the save on Carleton's next shot, leaving Synhorst to coolly send Concordia into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.