INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Butler women's soccer team recognized six seniors in a pre-game ceremony on Sunday and then followed up with a, 3-1, win over Seton Hall. The visiting Pirates (6-4-0, 1-1-0 BIG EAST) took an early lead off a set piece, but the Bulldogs (9-1-0, 2-0-0) countered with three unanswered goals to win their second BIG EAST contest of the season.
 
Key Moments

• 17' | A dangerous play by Butler allows a Seton Hall free kick at the top of the penalty area. The Pirates' Laura Hooper plays the ball to the side and Cara Milne-Redhead hits it just inside the left post, giving the Pirates a 1-0 lead.
• 29' | Arianna Jalics sends a ball forward to Katie Soderstrom on the right side. Soderstrom hits a long cross to the far post and Anastasia Savich leaps and heads the ball into the net. The score is all level, at one.
• 36' | Abigail Isger sends a ball to Gabby Smith on the left side who then one-touches a cross to the front of the goal. Savich is there and puts Butler up, 2-1, with a one-touch finish.
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• 48' | Julia Leonard takes a corner kick from Katie Soderstrom and heads it directly to the upper right corner of the goal. A Seton Hall defender attempts a header-save but is too deep into the goal, and the Bulldogs take a 3-1 lead. 

Butler Points Summary
GOALS: Anastasia Savich (2), Julia Leonard
ASSISTS: Katie Soderstrom (2), Arianna Jalics, Gabby Smith, Abigail Isger

Bulldog Bits

• In a pregame ceremony, Butler recognized its six seniors: Leah Goehring, Jaycee Helmer, Julia Dreher, Stephanie Rodriguez, Julia Leonard, and Amanda Kowalski.
   
• Today was Anastasia Savich's sixth career multi-goal match, as she notched her first two goals of the season.
• With her two goals today, Savich now has 26 for her career and has moved into the sixth position, alone, on Butler's career list. Katie Soderstrom is tied for eighth on the same list, with 24 total goals.
• Today's goal from Julia Leonard was the third of her career but the first since her freshman season in 2017.
• Soderstrom's two assists give her 20 points (8g, 4a) for the season, and she is the team leader.
• Isger's assist gives her 15 points (5g, 5a), and she ranks second on the team.
• Arianna Jalics and Gabby Smith each produced her first assist of the season.
• Freshman Emma Martin improved to 9-0-0 on the season, making two saves for the Bulldogs.
   
• Butler outshot Seton Hall, 19-8 total, and 10-3 on goal.
• The Bulldogs earned nine corner kicks compared to three for the Pirates.
   
• The goals by Savich and J. Leonard raise the number of Bulldogs who have scored at least one goal this season to nine.
• This is the second straight season that Butler has started 9-1. In the COVID-shortened spring 2020-21 season, the Bulldogs were 9-1 entering BIG EAST tournament play.

Up Next
Butler travels to Queens, N.Y., to face St. John's on Thursday, September 30, at 7 pm. Three days later, the Bulldogs are back in Indianapolis to host Connecticut on Sunday, October 3.