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Women’s Soccer Clinches No. 2 Seed for MVC Tournament with 1-0 Victory over Missouri State in Regular Season Finale

DES MOINES, Iowa – Senior Alyssa Brand (Skokie, Ill.) of the Drake University women's soccer team scored her second game winner in the past three matches in a 1-0 victory over Missouri State in the regular season finale Thursday at the Cownie Soccer Complex.

Brand, who scored in the 75th minute of last week's 2-1 comeback over rival UNI last Wednesday in Cedar Falls, netted the winner for Drake (8-8-1, 5-1-1 MVC) in the 82nd minute Thursday. Senior Linda Fiorito (Overland Park, Kan.) played the ball into the Missouri State (8-8-2, 2-3-2 MVC) box, passed to junior Shelley Lyjak (Bartlett, Ill.