THE RESULT
No. 10 Saint Louis 3, Loyola Chicago 0
Atlantic 10 Championship Quarterfinals
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022 | 1 p.m.
Robert R. Hermann Stadium | St. Louis, Mo.
 
GAME DETAILS
•Lyndsey Heckel registered the first two-goal game of her collegiate career, Sophia Stram collected two assists for the first time as a Billiken, and 10th-ranked Saint Louis advanced to the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals with a 3-0 quarterfinal victory over Loyola Chicago Saturday afternoon at Hermann Stadium.
•Top-seeded SLU (18-1) will host No. 6 Saint Joseph's, a 1-0 upset winner over No. 3 VCU Friday night, in a semifinal match Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. The championship bracket is re-seeded following the quarterfinals, with the highest remaining seed facing the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.
•No. 2 Dayton hosts No. 4 Davidson in Wednesday's other semifinal.
•With the victory, Saint Louis extended its school-record winning streak to 16 games (also the longest active streak in NCAA Division I women's soccer); tied the 2018 Billikens for most wins in a season (18); and matched the school record for the longest unbeaten streak (16) set by the 2019 team.
•The shutout was the Bills' 13th of the year, equaling the school record set by five previous teams.
•Emily Puricelli tallied her school-record 18th victory in goal, breaking the previous mark of 17 set by Olivia Silverman in 2018.
•Heckel (Katie Houck, Stram assists) snapped a 0-0 tie with her first goal in the 50th minute and, assisted by Stram, made it 2-0 with her second in the 56th minute. Hannah Sawyer netted an unassisted goal in the 69th minute to close the scoring.
•No. 8 seed Loyola Chicago, playing its first season in the A-10, finished with an 8-8-3 record.
 
SCORING SUMMARY
Lyndsey Heckel (Katie Houck, Sophia Stram), 49:17, SLU 1-0; Lyndsey Heckel (Sophia Stram), 55:23, SLU 2-0; Hannah Sawyer (unassisted), 68:06, SLU 3-0
 
BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Saint Louis improved to 18-5-1 all-time in A-10 Championship play. The four-time defending champion Billikens have won 12 consecutive tournament games.
•In addition to owning the longest current winning streak in the nation, SLU leads Division I women's soccer in wins (18) and winning percentage (.947).
•SLU is now 60-6-6 (.875) in its last 72 games at Hermann Stadium. The shutout was the Bills' 45th during that stretch.
•Saint Louis increased its school season record for goals (59) in a season. The Billikens have a plus-50 goal differential this season.
•The Billikens are now 4-0 all-time vs. the Ramblers.
•SLU's two assisted goals were new player combinations this season. The Billikens now have 42 different player combos on their 49 assisted goals this year.
•The win was the 46th of Emily Puricelli's career, giving her sole possession of second place on SLU's all-time list and pulling to within two of Meghann Burke's Billiken record of 48.
•The shutout was Puricelli's 11th solo clean sheet of the year. She is now just one shy of Burke's SLU single-season record of 12 set in 2002.
•Lyndsey Heckel's two goals pushed her season total to six and her season point total to 13. That gives the Billikens nine players with a double-digit point total, the most in program history.
•Heckel is now fourth on the team in goals and fifth in points.
•Stram's assists were her first of the season.
•Sawyer picked up her fifth goal of the year.
•Saint Louis earned advantages of 20-1 in total shots, 8-0 in shots on goal and 11-1 in corner kicks.
•Stram and Heckel recorded career highs of five and four shots, respectively, while Hannah Larson tied her career best of four shots.
 
SAINT LOUIS STARTERS
Emily Puricelli, Anna Lawler, Emily Groark, Caroline Kelly, Hannah Friedrich, Brionna Halverson, Hannah Larson, Katie Houck, Abbie Miller, Lyndsey Heckel, Sophia Stram
 
SAINT LOUIS SUBSTITUTES
Brianna Arthur, Anna Walsh, Hannah Sawyer, Jess Preusser, Karsen Kohl, Ellie Paloucek, Sydney Beach, Emily Gaebe, Clare Nicholas