TACOMA, Wash. - Inches may have helped determine a different direction for Saturday's game as Kathleen Daly-Jensen's header bounced off the post with Whitman College's women's soccer team down by just a goal to 16th-ranked University of Puget Sound. The host Loggers escaped the threat and would go on to a 3-0 win over the Missionaries in Northwest Conference action on the turf at East Athletic Field.

Ten minutes before Daly-Jensen hit the post unbeaten UPS (14-0-4, 10-0-4 NWC) had opened the scoring with a goal on a free kick in the 30th minute to take the lead. Daly-Jensen almost found the equalizer for upset-minded Whitman (2-11-6, 2-7-6) in the 35th but her shot missed the frame.

The one-goal halftime deficit was in no way insurmountable for the Missionaries but UPS added difficulty to a Missionaries come back with a goal in the 60th. Jordan McLuen received a pass from Amalia Acorda-Fey, who scored the free kick goal, on the inside of a marking defender and with a quick turn had an alley through which she slotted a shot into the right side of the goal past the outstretched gloves of a diving Haley Case.

An Alissa Soo shot in the 70th minute was a chance for Whitman to halve the lead but like Daly-Jensen's early shot it too was wide of the mark.

Soo's shot would be the last of the game for the Missionaries while Acorda-Fey would add another marker with a goal in the 78th to push UPS's final cushion to three.

Whitman will return home for the final game of the 2015 season, welcoming Lewis & Clark College to the Whitman Athletic Fields Sunday at noon for the Northwest Conference finale.