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Devilettes to take
on UCLA
The Mississippi Valley State Devilettes, one day removed from capturing the school’s first title in women’s soccer, had another first as the team received the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Women’s College Cup, the NCAA’s Division I women’s soccer tournament. The Devilettes (13-5-2) will travel to Los Angeles, California, to face the national runner-up from last season, the Bruins of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). The match will take place Friday, November 11 at 5 p.m. at UCLA’s Drake Stadium. Mississippi Valley State is coached by 2005 SWAC Coach of the Year Dean Joseph and is led on the field by Sheena Cussen, Sonia Curvelo and Maria Del Guercio. Cussen and Curvelo each had eight goals and three assists while Del Guercio had 85 saves on the season. The team had a five-game winning streak during the season and were unbeaten (2-0-1) during the conference tournament. MVSU will take on a tough UCLA team that found themselves one shootout goal (4-3 shootout loss to Notre Dame) away from a national championship last season. The Pacific-10 champion currently sit with a 17-1-2 mark and are the number 1 seed in the NCAA Regional (number 3 seed overall). UCLA is ranked fourth in the NSCAA/adidas, Soccer America and Soccer Buzz polls. The meeting will be the first between the Bruins and the Devilettes. Other teams participating in the sub-regional include UC-Riverside (11-4-5) and Colorado (12-7-3).
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