A-10 Championship Bracket Announcement
THE RESULT
Saint Louis 0, Dayton 0
Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024 | 12:30 p.m. CT
Baujan Field | Dayton, Ohio
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GAME DETAILS
•Saint Louis limited Dayton to one shot on goal and emerged with a 0-0 draw with the Flyers Sunday afternoon, giving the Billikens their sixth Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season title in seven years and third in a row.
•SLU concluded the regular season with an 11-1-6 overall record and a 7-0-3 conference mark. The Billikens are the No. 1 seed for the eight-team A-10 Championship that begins later this week and will host all three rounds of the tournament if they continue to advance.
•Dayton (13-3-2, 7-1-2) finished one point behind Saint Louis and secured the No. 2 seed.
•Saint Louis will welcome No. 8 seed Davidson (8-7-3, 4-5-1) to Hermann Stadium for a quarterfinal match Saturday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. The Billikens and Wildcats did not meet during the regular season. The semifinals will be played Wednesday, Nov. 6, and the title game – the winner of which receives the A-10's automatic NCAA Tournament bid – is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 10.
•In each of their six championship seasons since 2018, the Billikens have finished undefeated in conference play.
•SLU extended its unbeaten streak to 13 games (9-0-4).
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SCORING SUMMARY
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BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Saint Louis out-shot Dayton 15-11 overall and 6-1 in shots on goal.
Hannah Sawyer tallied two shots on frame.
•The Bills extended their A-10 regular-season unbeaten streak to 30 games. Including conference tournament games, Saint Louis extended its unbeaten streak vs. league opponents to 39 games.
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Emily Puricelli increased her school-record totals to 48 shutouts and 9,156 goalkeeper minutes. Puricelli moved into a first-place tie with Hannah Friedrich (2018-22) on the Billikens' career list for starts with her 104th appearance in the first 11.
•The shutout was the 11th of the season for Saint Louis and the eighth for Puricelli.
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SAINT LOUIS STARTERS
Emily Puricelli,
Lucie Schwartz,
Hope Kim,
Julia Simon,
Hannah Larson,
Katie Houck,
Izzy Luebbert,
Emily Gaebe,
Lyndsey Heckel,
Sophia Stram,
Elise Le
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SAINT LOUIS SUBSTITUTES
Hannah Sawyer,
Audrey Smith,
Ashley Miller,
Jordan Gary,
Eva Schreiber