PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Maddie Ditta’s penalty-kick goal in the 61st minute Thursday lifted Montana to a 1-0 victory over Portland State at Hillsboro Stadium and handed the Grizzlies their third consecutive Big Sky Conference regular-season soccer title.<\/p>\n
It’s the first time in league history that a team has won three championships in a row.<\/p>\n
Ditta beat PSU keeper Natalie Cunningham to the low left of the net to give the Grizzlies the lead, taking advantage of a foul called on the Vikings’ Josie DeLine. Later at the 87:04 mark, Montana goalie Ashlyn Dvorak made a save on a shot by Kalo Iongi to help preserve the shutout. <\/p>\n
The Grizzlies won for the fourth straight time, extended their unbeaten streak to six games, and finished the regular season with a 11-3-3 overall record and a 5-1-2 mark in the Big Sky. <\/p>\n
Montana will have the No. 1 seed for the Big Sky tournament, which begins Nov. 5 at South Campus Stadium in Missoula. <\/p>\n
Against Portland State the Grizzlies finished with 17 shots, six of which were on goal. Ally Henrikson attempted a team-high four shots. The Vikings had nine total shots, two on goal. It was Montana’s 11th shutout of the season and the 22nd clean sheet of Dvorak’s career.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies will host the Big Sky postseason tournament for the second year in a row and for the sixth time since it began in 1997. The tournament host has not won the championship since Northern Colorado in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Maddie Ditta’s penalty-kick goal in the 61st minute Thursday lifted Montana to a 1-0 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[111397,49,48,56297,56298,111398,561,82],"class_list":["post-235483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-big-sky-conference","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montana-grizzlies","tag-montana-sports","tag-portland-state-vikings","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}