Box Score Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney and Washburn women's soccer teams both scored second half goals to tie 1-1 (2 OT's) Sunday afternoon at Ron & Carol Cope Stadium at Foster Field.

This was the Lopers final regular season home game.

UNK (4-8-4, 3-4-2) and the Ichabods (4-7-5, 3-4-2) are now tied for eighth in the league standings with 11 points. Lindenwood can reach 11 points as well if it beats Missouri Western State at home on Sunday.

On "Senior Day", the Lopers moved ahead seconds into the second half as freshman Kelsie Ienn (Papillion-LaVista H.S.) sent a long ball towards the WU goal. Sophomore Reina Horikawa (Japan) received the pass, got past a defender and beat Ichabod keeper Kaitlin Minnich.

This is Horikawa's third goal of 2015, second most on the team.

Washburn didn't record a shot over the first 45 minutes but had two in the second, two in the first extra session and three in double overtime. In the 60th minute, freshman Paige Swanson found teammate Emily Stauffer, who scored her third goal of the year from 17 yards out.

Both teams had several chances to move ahead or win the game. Minnich stopped Horikawa shots in the 73rd and 77th minutes with Norfolk junior Evie Sintek almost scoring off a Horikawa corner in the 78th minute.

Loper freshman Ali Hirschman (Millard South H.S.), playing the final 65 minutes, stopped Swanson shots in the 98th and 102nd minutes with Washburn sailing two shots high in the closing moments.

"No one is happy with this result. This is a game we needed to win and should've have won," said UNK head coach John Maessner. "We still get a point and we did some good things but that wasn't a great game for us."

UNK out shot Washburn, 11-7, and recorded two more corner kicks, 6-4. Hirschman made three saves with Minnich at eight. Finally, Horikawa had five shots, four of them on goal.
 
"The only you can do if you're not playing up to your potential is to work hard. That's what we're going to do this week," said Maessner.

With Kristyn Otter (Millard North H.S.) returning next season, UNK honored seven seniors prior to today's game; Holly Brown (Glenwood Springs, Colo.), Montanna Hosterman (Papillion), Katelin Mielke (Millard West H.S.), Meaghan Pasbrig (Chandler, Ariz.), Ashtin Pawloski (Hastings), Nicole Potthoff (Kearney) and Samantha Rieber (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

Kearney closes out the regular season next weekend at Fort Hays State and Emporia State.