[Box score] [Sonoma State presser] [Point Loma presser]

Point Loma's first-half goal held up and ended Sonoma State's season at the NCAA West Regional in Bellingham, Wash.
 
The No. 3 seeded Sea Lions posted the match's lone score in the 28th minute when they quickly rushed to a free kick opportunity and caught the No. 6 Seawolves on their heels for just a moment.
 
After a foul, PLNU moved into its set-play formation, and as Sonoma State was trying to set its defense and find its marks, Emma Thrapp took the free kick from 45 yards out. She sent it into the box where a pair of PLNU student-athletes got behind the Sonoma defense. Goalkeeper Kennedy Williams stopped the initial header off the cross, but the ball ricocheted back into the box, and Mara Sovde finished it to give PLNU the 1-0 lead.
 
Sonoma State had opportunities in the second half as they came out of halftime more aggressively and controlled the ball for longer stretches. However, SSU was held to five shots, including two on target.
 
The Seawolves pushed up as the math was winding down and had two shots on goal in the final five minutes, but PLNU's goalkeeper Julia Pinnell stopped both shots and eliminated the opportunity for the equalizer.
 
"We had service today, but we weren't able to get ourselves in front of the balls that were coming in," said Sonoma State head coach Emiria Salzmann in her postgame interview. "Some of that service was fantastic, and there wasn't much else to do but put it away, and we didn't have that today."
 
Sonoma State ends its season at 12-5-3. The Seawolves also won their third straight CCAA regular-season title and made their seventh consecutive NCAA West Regional.