DECORAH, Iowa – The Luther women's soccer team lost to Lawrence University 1-0 in the Midwest Conference (MWC) Tournament Championship. The Vikings scored the game winning goal on a penalty kick in the 57
th minute.
The game's only goal came in the second half. A foul was called on Luther inside the box giving Lawrence a penalty kick. The Vikings scored with a shot to the left in the 57
th minute. Luther had a couple of chances late on corner kicks. On one corner kick to the far post Luther got a head to it but it went out of bounds.
The Norse finish the season with an 8-3-5 overall record. Luther won the MWC regular season championship with a record of 7-0-2. It was the first conference title in since 2016.
Luther also tied the program record for losses at three with the last times being in 1993, 2002, and 2016.
Rylie Bucklin set a new school single season record for goals against average at 0.50 beating the record of 0.58 set by Christi Thomas in 1993.
