In their first appearance at the OUA final four, the Lancer women's soccer team came up short in their bid for a spot in the gold medal game, falling to the UOIT Ridgebacks 3-1 on Friday afternoon in London, ON.
 
Becca Feurth scored Windsor's lone goal, while Nicole Zajac scored a pair for UOIT. Cassandra Sribny also scored for the No. 3 ranked Ridgebacks.
 
Zajac's opening goal came off a cross-crease pass by Katherine Koehler-Grassau with Cassandra Sribny letting the ball go through her legs to an open Zajac who beat an outstretched Krystin Lawrence. This was the lone goal of the opening 45 minutes as UOIT went into the break leading 4-2 in shots.
 
In the second half UOIT doubled their lead on a penalty kick after Taijah Henderson was taken down in the box. Sribny put the ball in the right side of the net, with Lawrence going in the opposite direction.
 
Sribny continued to get involved in the Ridgebacks offence as she gave the ball to Zajac at the top of the box. After a single touch she put it in the top-right corner to put UOIT ahead 3-0 in the 57th minute.
 
Trailing by three, the Lancers would push pressure on the UOIT defenders who stood strong until the 79th minute when Windsor was fouled in the box.
 
Fuerth put the ball in the bottom-left corner of the net to score on the penalty kick – with Ridgeback keeper Helen Frampton guessing wrong and diving to the right side of the goal.
 
Windsor will now play for the bronze medal on Sunday morning at 11am against the final four host Western Mustangs. The game can be seen live on oua.tv.