THE RESULT
No. 20 Saint Louis 3, Dayton 0
Thursday, April 15, 2021 | Noon (CDT)
Hermann Stadium | St. Louis, Mo.
 
GAME DETAILS
•No. 20 Saint Louis advanced to the title game of the Atlantic 10 Championship with a 3-0 semifinal victory over Dayton Thursday afternoon at Hermann Stadium.
•The top-seeded Billikens (14-1), who extended their winning streak to nine, will face either No. 2 seed Massachusetts or No. 3 seed Davidson in Saturday's noon (CDT) final. The winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
•Abbie Miller, Hannah Friedrich and Hannah Larson scored a goal apiece, and Brionna Halverson tallied two assists.
•Head coach Katie Shields claimed her 100th career win, all at Saint Louis. Shields has a 100-45-12 record.
•Dayton, the No. 4 seed, finished its season with a 7-6-1 record.
 
SCORING SUMMARY
Abbie Miller (Brionna Halverson), 24:11, SLU 1-0; Hannah Friedrich (Emily Groark, Sophia Stram), 63:34, SLU 2-0; Hannah Larson (Brionna Halverson), 87:57, SLU 3-0
 
BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Saint Louis will play in the A-10 Championship final for a third straight season. The Billikens were tournament champions in 2018 and 2019.
•At 14-1, the Billikens own the best 15-game record in program history.
•Saint Louis extended its unbeaten streak against A-10 opponents to 35 games (34-0-1), beginning with the 2018 season.
•Saint Louis is 44-2-5 in its last 51 games at Hermann Stadium, a stretch that dates to the final home game of the 2015 season.
•The Billikens defeated Dayton for a seventh straight time overall and fourth time this season.
•SLU has outscored its opponents 38-8 this season.
•Saint Louis outshot Dayton 16-5 overall and 7-0 in shots on goal. The Billikens earned a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.
•Hannah Larson's goal was her team-leading eighth of the season. Larson has netted a goal in each of the last five games.
•Abbie Miller recorded her seventh goal of the year. Miller has nine points (3G, 3A) over the last four games.
•Hannah Friedrich increased her team-leading point total to 20 with her third goal of the season. Friedrich, who leads the nation with 14 assists, has registered at least one point in seven of the last eight games.
•Brionna Halverson's two assists were her first helpers of the season. Halverson posted the first multi-assist game of her SLU career.
•Emily Groark and Sophia Stram collected their second assists of the year.
 
SAINT LOUIS STARTERS
Emily Puricelli, Emily Groark, Hannah Friedrich, Brionna Halverson, Karsen Kohl, Hannah Larson, Sydney Beach, Abbie Miller, Lyndsey Heckel, Sophia Stram, Jess Preusser
 
SAINT LOUIS SUBSTITUTES
Caroline Kelly, Anna Walsh, Megan Nixon, Elli Brunts