CEDAR FALLS -- Northern Iowa's stellar 2017 women's soccer season continued with a 1-0 win over Illinois State Sunday in the opening round of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.
Head coach Bruce Erickson said his team showed its true nature in the victory, finding a way to win despite not playing its best soccer.
"As our team has shown all year, this team finds a way to get results when we are not at our best," Erickson said. "Winning games through a variety of ways during the course of the year, I think that helped us in crunch time.