A trip to the Midwest later this week was the reward for both Villanova and La Salle’s women’s soccer teams after they each won their conference quarterfinal matches 1-0 at home over the weekend.
La Salle punched their ticket to the semifinals for the first time since winning the Atlantic 10 Championship in 2017 after holding onto a 1-0 lead to beat Dayton for the second time in a week. Emily Banashefski scored the lone goal in the 21st minute and Claudia Jenkins made seven saves to record her sixth clean sheet of the season.
The Explorers will face top seed Saint Louis on Friday at 2 p.