Last Sunday, the Eastern women’s soccer team lost its regular season finale 1-0 against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at Lakeside Field Saturday.

The Panthers recognized their five seniors, including the team’s all-time minutes leader, defender Sam Balek, twin sisters Hillary and Jessica Blake, defender Erika Prazma, and midfielder Ashley Eck.

All five seniors started Sunday, and none of them played fewer than 81 minutes, with Balek, Hillary Blake and Prazma playing all 90.

Junior midfielder Kristin Germann led the Panthers’ offense on Sunday, taking five shots, one on goal, while freshman midfielder Meagen Radloff took three shots and was the only Panther with more than one on goal.

The Panthers will now move on to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in Cape Girardeau, Mo., where they will face Tennessee-Martin, who they beat 1-0 on Oct. 2. The win at Tennessee-Martin was, and still is, the Panthers’ only win of the season away from Lakeside Field.

Around the OVC

Elsewhere in Ohio Valley Conference action last weekend, Eastern Kentucky played host to Austin Peay and Murray State, beating the Governors 2-1 before falling 1-0 to the Racers.

Tennessee-Martin stayed home and won twice, beating Tennessee Tech 2-0 before stopping Jacksonville State 2-1.

Conference leader Southeast Missouri picked up a pair of 3-0 wins at home in advance of hosting the OVC tournament, beating Jacksonville State and Tennessee Tech by identical scores.

Morehead State picked up a pair of wins at home, beating Murray State 1-0 Friday before winning a lopsided 7-2 contest with Austin Peay Sunday.

Austin Peay hit the road for a pair of matches last weekend, as they lost 2-1 to Eastern Kentucky before falling 7-2 to Morehead State.

Tennessee Tech fell 2-0 at Tennessee-Martin before falling 3-0 to Southeast Missouri in their weekend action.

Jacksonville State lost a pair on the road over the weekend as well, as they went down 3-0 to Southeast Missouri before losing 2-1 to Tennessee-Martin.

Finally in OVC weekend action, Murray State split a pair of road matches. The Racers fell 1-0 at Morehead State Friday before topping Eastern Kentucky by the same score.

Brad Kupiec can be reached at 581-7944 or bmkupiec@eiu.edu.