DePaul women’s soccer bested by Marquette

It was a tale of two halves for the DePaul women’s soccer team, who dropped a key conference matchup against rival Marquette 2-0 in a physical game Thursday afternoon at Wish Field.

The Blue Demons controlled the first 45 minutes, but were not able to put away a couple of good chances inside the box.

“I thought they had great energy, I thought they were battling,” head coach Erin Chastain said. “They were sticking to the game plan of how we play and I thought we got some good chances.”

Senior midfielder Alexa Ben liked the way DePaul moved the ball in the first half and thought this created a lot of those good opportunities.

“We were playing quickly with it, we weren’t holding onto the ball too…