Box Score COLUMBIA, Ky. -- The Lindsey Wilson College women's soccer team clinched the outright Mid-South Conference regular season title tonight with a 7-0 win over visiting University of Pikeville at Walter S. Reuling Stadium.
The MSC championship is the program's 13th straight regular season crown. The Blue Raiders (12-2-1, 9-0 in the MSC) earn the conference's top-seed in the tournament in early November.
Lindsey Wilson's Mia Persson provided three goals and an assist in tonight's win as the newly anointed No. 2-ranked Blue Raiders were less than hospitable -- out-shooting the visitors 26-0 and 18-0 in shots on-goal. Earlier today, Lindsey Wilson jumped one spot in the national poll to No. 2.
It took exactly 23 minutes for the Blue Raiders to penetrate the packed-in UPike zone for the first goal of the night.
Cecilia Ekstrand scored from deep inside the penalty area off Laerke Lillelund Michaelsen's assist to give Lindsey Wilson the 1-0 lead.
Persson doubled the lead in 29th minute and Michaelsen added a third goal less than a minute later to push the Blue Raiders' lead to 3-0.
Persson added the final goal of the first half in the 41st minute to send Lindsey Wilson into the half with a 4-0 lead.
In the second frame, Persson added her third goal of the night and her team-high 20th of the season to extend the lead to 5-0.
Therese Hagbyhn and Elizabet Madjarac placed the bow on the regular season crown with goals in the 69th and 88th minutes for the 7-0 win.
Pikeville falls to 4-10 overall and 0-9 in the MSC with the loss.
Lindsey Wilson returns to action at 7 p.m. CT on Friday, October 26 as the Blue Raiders host No. 14-ranked Martin Methodist (Tenn.) College at Walter S. Reuling Stadium.