Official Site of the Big East · Aug 19, 2017
Last Night In #BIGEASTwsoc – 8.19.17
Butler scores a draw at No. 18 Notre Dame while Xavier’s Nate Lie earns career win No. 1.
Butler 0, #18 Notre Dame 0 (2OT)
The 2017 season got off to a good start for the Butler women's soccer team as the 'Dawgs traveled to #18 Notre Dame and walked away with a quality 0-0 double overtime tie. Butler has now reached double overtime in three of their last four season openers. Notre Dame had defeated Butler in the previous ten meetings. This result also goes down as the first tie against a ranked opponent since the 2014 season when BU tied #12 DePaul 2-2. Leonie Doege made four saves for the Bulldogs to keep the nationally ranked Irish off the board.
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