Bridgeport Women Reach East Coast Conference Soccer Championship Final With 2-0 Win Over Queens (N.Y.) College

Bridgeport, Conn.-The University of Bridgeport women's soccer team scored a goal in each half and used a dominating performance on defense to reach the 2012 East Coast Conference Championship Final with a 2-0 home semifinal win over the visiting Queens (N.Y.) College Knights on Friday afternoon.  UB, the number two seed in the tournament, will now host the number four seed, Dowling College Golden Lions at 12 noon on Sunday, November 4 for the 2012 East Coast Conference Women's Soccer crown and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championship Tournament that will begin next week.  Dowling upset number one seed LIU Post, 2-1, on Friday.

With the win, the Purple Knights head into the ECC Final with an 11-5-2 overall record.  Queens closed out its 2012 season with a 10-4-4 mark.

Senior Asia Pulse (New Haven, Conn.) scored the match's first goal at the 32:35 mark when she scored her four goal of the season off an assist from sophomore Aulona Velaj (Stamford, Conn.).

Velaj would then put the game away for the Purple Knights when she tallied her first goal of 2012 off a beautiful through ball from classmate Danielle Puddefoot (Slough, England) at the 77:18 mark of play.

The Bridgeport defense limited Queens to only two shots on the afternoon, both which were not goal.  UB outshot Queens, 10-2, for the match.

UB goalkeeper Julia Hansson (Jr., Tocksfors, Sweden) recorded her seventh clean sheet of the year in the win.

Queens goalkeeper Alison Breakey made four saves for the Knights.