BOX SCORE Seattle Pacific 1, #17 Sonoma State 0 -- Box Score

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Despite outshooting Seattle Pacific 10-3 in the final 45 minutes and 16-9 in the match, the 17th-ranked Sonoma State women's soccer team suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to SPU in the First Round of the 2013 NCAA Division II Championship Tournament at Orca Field on the campus of Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Wash. 

The Seawolves, who went into the west regional tournament as the No. 3 seed, sees their season come to an abrupt end at 13-5-3.  The No. 6 seed Falcons (15-5-1) advances to play No. 2 seed Western Washington (17-1-1) on Saturday afternoon in a rematch of last weekend's Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) championship game.

It would be an evenly-matched contest between Sonoma State and Seattle Pacific through the first 45 minutes on Thursday as both teams attempted six shots each.  However, SSU held a 3-1 advantage in shots on goal before the intermission.

Just over nine minutes into the second half, the Falcons took the 1-0 lead on a goal by Hannah Huesers.  It came after a pass was played forward into the penalty area by Kaylie Winston.  Heusers stepped around a Seawolf defender, who was attempting to shield the ball, and scored on a tap-in from five yards out. 

Sonoma State, which had the aforementioned 16-9 advantage in shot attempts for the match, nearly scored the equalizer four minutes later as Kristal Luna's shot from 18 yards out rang off the left post.  From there, SPU goalkeeper Natalie Harold, who made nine saves, kept the Falcons in front.  In an 11-minute span midway through the second half, Harold twice made diving saves off shots by Cara Curtin, then foiled a breakaway by diving out to smother the ball before Curtin could get off a shot. 

Harold made nine total stops, including six in the final period to keep the Seawolves off the scoreboard.  Meanwhile, her counterpart, SSU's Allison Hadidian, made two saves.

It was the seventh all-time meeting between Sonoma State and Seattle Pacific, but the first since 2007, and it was the first-ever postseason meeting.  The Falcons have now won five straight against the Seawolves; SSU's last win over SPU came during the 2002 campaign.