Box Score
DANBURY, Conn. – Sixty seconds away from gaining a point on the road against one of the Little East Conference leaders, the Eastern Connecticut State University women's soccer team came up empty when senior forward Adriana Alfano scored her fifth goal of the season to lift homestanding Western Connecticut State University to a 1-0 win Wednesday evening at the Westside Athletic Complex.
 
With the win, WestConn (9-5-2, 4-1-0 LEC) pulls into a two-way tie for second place in the conference with Massachusetts Boston, which dropped a 5-1 decision at unbeaten University of Southern Maine Wednesday. Playing only its fourth road match this year, Eastern (3-8-2, 1-2-2 LEC) holds to the sixth and final playoff spot, one point ahead of Rhode Island College and Keene State College, against whom Eastern has played to a scoreless draw this year.
 
The 1-0 loss is Eastern's fourth this year – second straight. The Warriors are 0-8-2 against WestConn in the last ten meetings since a 1-0 road win in 2015.

In a scoreless match, the Warriors nearly broke through midway in the second stanza when senior Olivia Davidson (Waterford) dribbled in and fired a blast that sailed wide of the left post. With the contest headed toward a tie, junior Annie Sobolewski chipped a pass over to Alfano, who then chased it down to knock a header over the goal line.

Eastern first-year keeper Alex Ignatowicz (Coventry) made seven saves in the loss.
 
Eastern visits Plymouth State University (5-8-0, 2-4-0 LEC) in a conference match Saturday at 1 p.m. Since winning three of its first four this year, the Panthers are 2-7-0 and are coming off Wednesday's 2-1 LEC win at Keene State College.