PULASKI, Tenn. – The No. 25 SCAD women's soccer team ended its season on Saturday with a 6-1 loss to No. 4 Tennessee Southern in the second round of the NAIA National Championship.
 
DID YOU KNOW? With the opening round win over No. 18 Grace College on Thursday, the Bees made history as they became the only women's soccer team in program history to advanced past the first round of a NAIA National Championship.
 
Freshman Sydney Chura (Milford, Mich.) broke two records this season, points in a single season and goals in a single season. Chura broke the goals in a single season with her goal tonight against UT Southern, giving her 20 on the season, besting the previous record by one goal.
 
RECORDS: SCAD ends the season with a 13-6-1 overall record while the Firehawks improve to 20-1-0.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED? In the first half, UT Southern took control, scoring five goals and taking 17 shots to the Bees' five shots to go into halftime with a 5-0 lead.
 
In the second half, SCAD out-shot the Firehawks 7-6. Unfortuntely, it was not enough as UT Southern scored their sixth goal at the 51:48 mark.
 
Just under eight minutes later, Chura scored the last goal of the game off an assist from Abigail Siddall (Plymouth, Mich. / Film and Television) to put the Bees on the board (1-6).
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE: SCAD totaled 12 shots (six on goal) to UT Southern's 23 (11 on goal). The Bees took two corner kicks and goalie Paige Hickman (Aurora, Colo. / Animation) nabbed five saves in her 90 minutes of work.
 
Chura and Siddall totaled four shots each with Chura scoring a goal and Siddall getting the assist.
 
Berglind Baldursdottir (Kopavogur, Iceland / Architecture), Pauline Watta (Rheine, Germany) and Ines Sommer (Lisbon, Portugal / Film and Television) totaled one shot each.
 
FROM THE COACHES: "It's been a true pleasure to coach this group" states Head Coach Rebecca Gunn and Assistant Coach Sinead Byrne. "We were a team that had not trained together for 15 months, had not played a game for 19 months, and we made it to the second round of the NAIA National Tournament. We have a lot to celebrate this season."

"A special shout-out to the graduating players Eliana Charalombous, Riley Shelton, Helena Godmann, Natalia Zapata, Jenny Caracheo and Courtney Culp who created a legacy that we will look to improve on."