Kim Sisneros scored in the 80th minute as the Fort Lewis women’s soccer team shocked Metro State with a 2-1 upset victory Saturday in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament semifinals at Auraria Field.
Fort Lewis ended Metro State’s 61-game home-winning streak. The Roadrunners were last defeated at Auraria in 2002.
Fourth-seeded Fort Lewis will face No. 2 Regis (11-6-4) in the championship at noon today after Regis earned a 1-0 win over No. 3 Mesa State (11-6-2).
With 10 minutes remaining against Metro (19-2), Sisneros finished a flurry of shots in front of the Roadrunners’ goal, knocking the ball past keeper Rachel Zollner.
“We knew we could do it,” Skyhawks coach Jaymee Carozza said. “We kept saying that it is tough to beat a team three times in a season.”
In the men’s RMAC tournament, No. 1 Fort Lewis will meet No. 3 Metro State in the championship game at 1 p.m. today at Dirks Field in Durango. In Friday’s semifinals, the Skyhawks earned a 1-0 overtime victory over No. 4 Colorado State-Pueblo. And Metro State got a 3-2 overtime win over No. 2 Colorado Mines.
CHL’s Youngstown holds off Rocky Mountain
The Youngstown SteelHounds of the Central Hockey League scored four unanswered goals and topped the visiting Rocky Mountain Rage 4-2. The Rage (1-1-1, 3 points) were led by Anders Strome’s two assists.
DU men’s soccer shuts out Air Force
The University of Denver men’s soccer team (11-3-2), playing a man-down after a red card to defender Colin Jones, got the game-winning goal from Ben Mendozza in the 77th minute to defeat visiting Air Force (4-11-1) 1-0 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game. Pioneers goal- keeper Matt Bredehoft earned the shutout.
