Box Score
LYNDHURST, Ohio -- Notre Dame gave a solid effort but fell to a high-octane, ranked Grand Valley State (Mich.) squad, 2-0, on Sunday afternoon.

No. 6-ranked (National Soccer Coaches Association of America) Lakers got one goal in each half in a rainy Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match-up at a rainy Korb Field.

With the loss, the Falcons (3-13-1, 2-10-1 GLIAC) remained winless since Sept. 23.  Since that date, NDC went 0-8-1, with just three goals scored over that stretch, in closing out its season.  Sunday marked the Falcons' final game of the 2012 campaign. 

Grand Valley (15-1-2, 11-1-1) got its first goal when Ashley Botts notched her 12th netfinder of the season on a top-of-the-box, top-shelf shot over Falcon goalkeeper Kristy Kolschetzky in the seventh minute. 

That goal came on the Lakers' second shot; they would go on to pile up a total of 18 shots in dominating the action in the game's first half.  GVSU did not permit an NDC shot over the first 45 minutes of action -- after which the Lakers led, 1-0 -- and they would allow only two for the game.

The visitors scored their second goal early in the second frame when Alyssa Mira put an eight-yarder in the net on a nice cross from Kayla Addison.

The Lakers outshot the Falcons, 35-2, for the game.  A busy Kristy Kolschetzky made 13 saves in the game.  And she did so against a Laker team that has had no trouble filling the net this season.  GVSU came into the weekend averaging 3.2 goals per game, an average that ranked fifth among all NCAA-II teams. 

Kolschetzky made 52 saves over NDC's last four games.

NDC's nine-match winless streak to close out the season marks the program's longest since the Falcons went 0-9 in nine-game stretch in 2001.