WOMEN'S CCC TOURNAMENT PRESENTED BY U.S. BANK
Tuesday – Quarterfinals
(1) Northwest 1, (8) Rocky Mountain 0
(2) Southern Oregon 2, (7) Oregon Tech 1
(3) College of Idaho 3, (6) Carroll 2
(4) Eastern Oregon 3, (5) Corban 0
Wednesday – Semifinals
Northwest 1, Eastern Oregon 0 (OT)
College of Idaho 1, SOU 0
Friday – Championship
12 p.m. – College of Idaho vs. Northwest
 
SPRINGFIELD – The Southern Oregon women's soccer team will be subjected to an excruciating wait for the national tournament selection show after going down in the semifinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships presented by U.S. Bank.

A clutch display of skill from College of Idaho freshman Gianna Yslava cracked the CCC's top defense and landed the No. 3-seeded Yotes a 1-0 win on Wednesday evening at Civic Park.

Yslava, after scoring a pair of goals in Tuesday's quarterfinal victory against Carroll (Mont.), notched her 11th of the season in the 76th minute. Lined up right of the goal on top of the box, she maneuvered with a defender in front of her and stepped into a perfect left-footed strike that lined a hair under the crossbar, leaving SOU's outstretched all-star goalkeeper, Jessie Selby, without a chance of denial.

Selby had made a season-high 10 saves to keep the Raiders in the game prior to the shot. C of I keeper Hannah McFadden cleaned up SOU's only two shots on goal.

The Yotes – who tied the Raiders for second place in the regular season, and tied them 1-1 on Oct. 15 in Ashland thanks to Yslava's 76th-minute equalizer – went to 15-2-2 overall. They advanced to play Northwest (Wash.) in Friday's final and clinched the CCC's second automatic national tournament bid since NU already locked up the first by winning the regular-season title.

The Raiders (11-5-3) were eliminated by the Yotes in the semis for the second consecutive season. Their team-record unbeaten streak ended at 12 games – they hadn't lost since Sept. 16 – and, of greater consequence, their national playoff destiny was taken out of their hands.

They'll learn at 9 a.m. Monday if they've been pegged by the NAIA Soccer Championships Selection Committee for at-large bid to play in the 40-team Opening Round. In Wednesday's final NAIA coaches' poll, they were No. 34.