GOLDEN, Colo. – The 2025 season came to a close Sunday night for the #7 Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team at the hands of #14 UCCS by way of a 3-1 result in a penalty shootout following a 1-1 draw. A scoreless first half was followed by two goals in the span of four minutes late in the second half as the Orediggers (14-2-5) and Mountain Lions (14-2-6) played to a similar result from eight days prior in the RMAC semifinals, but this time the advancement going the other way in the shootout.
 
In the first half, Mines had two promising looks in the first 19 minutes off the foot of Bella Campos, first in the 17th minute as a chip shot over UCCS keeper Nylah Mirshafiei was lofted a bit too high and banged off the crossbar back into play. Moments later, Campos got the angle on a Mountain Lion defender and looked to go across goal to the near post, only to instead have that shot carom off the post for a second near-miss and the final scoring chance in the opening 45 minutes.
 
Annelise Rojo and Afton Rasco put the first two shots on frame of the night in the 46th and 52nd minutes as a team save and a grab by Mirshafiei kept the action scoreless. As time wound down, emotions ran high as the match became much more physical in the final 30 minutes with several hard challenges being whistled both ways. That increased physicality allowed UCCS an opportunity to score first in the 75th minutes as a pair of shots from Brooke Pavlich were first blocked, then saved by Allie Lundgren before the final rebound was put home by Abby Stassi for the lead. The Orediggers wasted little time countering, as a 79th minute corner kick from Kaitlyn Manalili was headed home on the back post by none other than Natalie Rouse to draw level at 1-1 and send the match to extra time.
 
Over the two 10-minutes extra period, six shots went on the board with just one on frame as Emily Aguilar tried to get a ball past Lundgren in the 95th minute with no success. As 110 minutes came and went, the teams and all in attendance braced themselves for the impending shootout with the 10-round roller coaster from the RMAC semifinals still fresh in their minds. UCCS led off with a make from Tay Levi before both Campos and Stassi, the top scorers in the RMAC, both saw their shots saved. After a pair of makes in the third round made it 2-1, Elise Broberg converted in the fourth before Mines' shootout luck finally ran out with Gaby Guerrero misfiring as the Mountain Lions advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament 3-1 by way of the shootout.
 
NOTABLES
-Rouse scored her fifth goal of the season, and ends 2025 second on the team in scoring
-Manalili recorded the assist in her final collegiate match, setting a new career high mark with 10 and finishing tied for the team lead with Rasco; she ends her career with three goals and 19 assists for 25 points in 84 matches with 38 starts for 3,592 minutes
-Rasco added three shots with one on goal in the match and finished the fall with three goals and 10 assists for 16 points; across 4,665 minutes in her four seasons, she scored 18 times with 18 assists for 54 points, which ranks tied for seventh all-time with 2025 Mines Hall of Fame inductee Emily Garnier (2014-17)
-Having both finished the fall with 10 assists, Manalili and Rasco become the seventh and eighth players in program history to record 10 or more assists in a season, as well as just the second pair of teammates to accomplish the feat in the same season with Megan Woodworth (12) and Anna Evans (10) in 2012; the duo join Evans, Garnier and Woodworth's 2010 season for fourth on the single-season assist list
-Lundgren ended her final career match with four saves, bringing her season total to 83, the fifth-most in a season all-time. In her career across 46 matches, she clocked 3,857:45 in goal with a 33-4-7 record, 16 shutouts, 148 saves, a 0.64 GAA and an .841 save percentage; Lundgren's time in Golden ends with her fourth on the all-time save list, sixth in shutouts and fifth in goals against average
-Sadie Wolf, who finished out her time with the program this fall in the role of a player coach, ends her career as one of top goalies in history along with Lundgren. In 38 matches, she logged 2,935:47 and recorded a record of 27-4-3 with 19 shutouts, 87 saves, a 0.58 GAA and an .821 save percentage; Wolf ends her career fourth in all-time shutouts and goals against average and eighth in saves while also holding the program record for consecutive scoreless minutes at 996:02 during the 2023 season
-Jiricek, who missed Sunday's match due to her red card in the RMAC Championship, ends her career with a goal and seven assists for nine points in 81 matches with 42 starts for 4,741 minutes
-Fuhr ended her final season with three goals for six points and closes her career with four goals and five assists for 13 points in 88 matches with 79 starts for 7,097 minutes
-Gabriela Rodríguez ends her career with one start in 15 matches for 391 minutes across two seasons of action as a member of the Mines back line
-Campos added another impressive season to her ledger, scoring 20 goals with four assists for 44 points; through 65 games she has 50 goals with 15 assists for 115 points with 12 game-winners and ranks fourth in career goals and fifth in career points heading into her final season
-Mines' senior class ends their career with a record of 67-9-13 overall and 39-2-7 in RMAC play with four NCAA Tournament appearances, two trips to the national quarterfinals behind a pair of South Central regional titles, the program's first-ever #1 ranking, two RMAC regular season titles and three RMAC Tournament titles
-Head coach Kevin Fickes ends his 16th season leading the way in Golden with a 258-44-45 record, good for an .808 winning percentage
-The Orediggers have now won at least 14 matches in a season 15 times in their 21-year history
 
UP NEXT
The offseason comes next for the Orediggers as they begin preparing for 2026. Stay tuned to minesathletics.com for the latest news and updates on postseason awards, the incoming signing class and more.
 
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