USL W League Rewind: Week 8

Ashle Paige

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Northern Lights Football

3 min readJun 27, 2022

Week 8 Rewind:

Mon, June 20th

Midwest United FC 3 vs 1 AFC Ann Arbor

Tue, June 21st

Kalamazoo FC 0 vs 1 Indy Eleven

Indy Eleven’s one match for the week had them host Kalamazoo FC and a win for Indy would get them ever closer to winning the Great Lakes Division. In the second half, Indy’s Addie Chester scored the only goal of the match en route to a one goal win.

Kings Hammer FC 2 vs 1 Flint City AFC

Chicago City SC 1 vs 2 Chicago Dutch Lions

Kaw Valley FC 7 vs 1 St. Louis Lions

With Kaw Valley being on the edge of the playoff race in the Heartland, the Cranes needed to take three points from their home clash with STL. KVFC scored five goals during the first 45 minutes, with Kate Gibson, Adah Anderson, Caroline Coleman, Hailey Palmer, and Sydney Watts all notching goals.

Krystal Kohenskey scored the Lions only goal of the match in the second half. Elizabeth Serago and Sydney Watts added two more goals for the Cranes to finish their dominating six goal win.

Wed, June 22nd

Racing Louisville FC 0 vs 0 AFC Ann Arbor

Fri, June 24th

Green Bay Glory 3 vs 0 St. Louis Lions

Green Bay is chasing Minnesota Aurora for the Heartland Division’s only playoff spot so a win was necessary for GBG. Maya Alberts scored the only goal of the first 45 minutes of the match. Skylar Prentice and Elizabeth Behnke each scored in the second half to add two more goals to the Glory’s tally.

Minnesota Aurora 3 vs 1 Chicago Dutch Lions

Bridget McDowell covered this match in a special piece that you can read here.

Sat, June 25th

Kaw Valley FC 1 vs 4 Chicago City SC

Kalamazoo FC 1 vs 3 AFC Ann Arbor

Sun, June 26th

Minnesota Aurora 4 vs 1 St. Louis Lions

Playoff Races:

Great Lakes Division:

In the past few weeks the playoff races have been heating up, none more so than in the Great Lakes Division. With one guaranteed spot on the line and the possibility of a second with the Wild Card, the race has gotten tighter in recent weeks. With three matches left to play in their season, Indy Eleven holds a five point lead over Racing Louisville and AFC Ann Arbor, who are tied for second.

Racing also currently holds the wild card spot with AFC Ann Arbor and Queensboro FC of the Metropolitan division coming in behind them. The wild card will be given to the best second place team from either the Great Lakes or Metropolitan divisions.

Heartland Division:

Over in the Heartland, Minnesota Aurora has a commanding eight point lead over Green Bay Glory. GBG has four matches left to play, giving them a match in hand over Aurora. With Aurora’s performances the Glory will need to win both of their next two in order to get within striking distance of Minnesota when they face each other in their final two matches.

If Glory fall in one of their next two and Aurora wins their next match, Minnesota will clinch the division title with two matches left. For Green Bay, they have four must win matches ahead of them.