CHICAGO – The Drake University women's soccer team is set for a pair of road matches this weekend. Drake plays at UIC Friday at 7 p.m. before closing the weekend at Wisconsin Sunday with a 1 p.m. match.
The Bulldogs started the 2016 season with a shutout win at North Dakota State last Friday. The win over the Bison marks the first time since 2012 that Drake opened a regular season with a victory.
Redshirt senior Alex Freeman (Duluth, Minn.), who missed nearly all of the 2015 season due to a knee injury, made an instant impact in her return scoring the match's lone goal off a corner kick from her teammate Kasey Hurt (Ankeny, Iowa) in the second half.