SPOKANE, Wash. – The lone goal of the game came in the 89th minute Wednesday afternoon, sending visiting Whitman College's women's soccer team to a painful 1-0 loss to host Whitworth University in Northwest Conference action at the Whitworth Soccer Field.

The Missionaries (6-5-2, 4-3-2 NWC) owned a 9-5 shots advantage over the Pirates (4-8-1, 3-6-0) but it was the final shot of the game -- only the second shot of the half from Whitworth -- that sent Whitman to its third straight defeat.

Making the loss even more frustrating for the Missionaries was the crossbar hit by Linnea Soo in the 38th minute and a hectic series of shots in the 80th that failed to find the back of the netting of the Pirate's goal.

Whitman was piling up possession minutes toward the end of the first half when Alissa Soo's shot at the 34:29 mark forced a save from Whitworth goalkeeper Andrea Stump. The Pirates were unable to clear their defensive zone and Linnea Soo ended up with a good look from 20 yards out that careened off the crossbar three minutes after her sister's scoring chance.

Kathleen Daly-Jensen was able to get off one more Whitman shot before the halftime horn but it was lifted just over the crossbar that seven minutes earlier had saved Whitworth from entering the intermission with a one-goal deficit.

The Missionaries maintained their late-half pressure after coming out of the break. A left side run deep into Whitworth territory from Olivia Thomson resulted in a Linnea Soo shot in the 63rd, and then a quick transition upfield added another save for Stump on Elyse Laurin's shot at 69:30.

Ten minutes later Whitman was causing havoc deep in the Pirates' defensive third. Stump wildly traveled across her goal to chase the Missionaries' quick-touch ball movement then stretched back for a save off a Clara Merlino shot at 79:52. Stump wasn't able to exert any type of possession and the ball rebounded out to the right where Lena de Guzman found possession and ripped a cross-goal shot behind Stump only to have it slide wide of the left post.

Neither team generated much of a scoring opportunity again until the waning minutes of action.

The Whitworth attack played its way into a corner kick chance as the clock wound past the 88-minute mark. The Pirates' Sarah Mickelson lofted her kick into the box where a scramble ensued until Hannah Bokema found the ball at her feet and lifted a quick shot up into the right corner from in close to beat Whitman goalie Haley Case at the 88:20 mark of the contest.

The Missionaries were unable to find the equalizer in the remaining 100 seconds leaving a frustrated team still searching for its first goal since a 1-0 victory on October 4.

Whitman will try to break its current string Saturday, Oct. 18 when it travels to No. 25 Pacific Lutheran University for a league outing against the host Lutes. Sunday brings another NWC road contest at the University of Puget Sound.