CROOKSTON, MINN. – The Minot State University soccer team looked like they were going to go into halftime trailing by one goal after Minnesota Crookston scored in the 22-minute mark, but Ninfa Ramirez had other plans.
 
The senior scored her seventh goal of the season just 28 seconds before the end of the first half to tie the game. The goal pushed her past the 50-point mark in her career at MSU. The Perris, Calif. native now has 51 career points, just 17 behind the all-time leader Zoe Fisher.
 
As a standout last season, Ramirez scored a single-season MSU record 16 goals, but she is outpacing herself from last year. Five games into the season in 2015 she had just three goals compared to this season's seven.
 
In the second half the Beavers attack seemed as relentless as the first half as they took 10 shots and totaled 23 in the game. After a shot was saved by Lexie Gauger, her sixth of the game, Chloe Melton was able to rebound the ball and shoot again, this time hitting the back of the net at the 79-minute mark.
 
Minot State was able to hold on to its 2-1 lead and defeat Minnesota Crookston by a single point, reminiscent of last season's 1-0 win.

"It was a grind," head coach Jason Spain said. "They were running through every challenge. It was tough to get rhythm, but our team fought hard."
 
Melton, a senior, now has three goals on the season, just one shy of her single-season high which she recorded as a freshman. Those three goals added to her eight scored in her first three years puts her as the No. 6 goal scorer in MSU history.
 
Erin Rafferty, playing all 90 minutes, earned her second win of the season as the goalkeeper for the Beavers.
 
Minot State will play host to Bemidji State on Sunday, September 25 at Herb Parker Stadium. The game is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
 
About Minot State
Minot State University is a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and NCAA Division II offering 14 men's and women's varsity intercollegiate athletics programs. The NSIC is a premier NCAA DII, 16-member conference featuring teams in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. The Beavers are the only public NCAA Division II institution in the state of North Dakota.