VICTORIA - #Maryse Reichgeld# scored in the 49th minute as the University of Victoria Vikes women's soccer team blanked the Regina Cougars 1-0 at Centennial Stadium on Sunday.

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The UVic women will round up their Canada West regular season with games against Fraser Valley on the road Oct. 22 and back at home on Oct. 29 (12 p.m. Centennial Stadium). The Vikes are now 5-4-3 with 18 points and are just one point ahead of Saskatchewan (5-3-2, 17 points) for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Canada West. The Huskies have two games in hand. Calgary sits in sixth spot at 4-3-3 and also have two games in hand on UVic.

The top four teams in the conference earn post-season spots.

The Vikes nearly opened the scoring in the 20th minute when national team player #Jaclyn Sawicki# (Coquitlam, B.C.) delivered a beautiful through-ball to #Shannon Elder# (Victoria), putting the rookie and teammate #Jacqueline Harrison# (Whitehorse) on a two-player breakaway. But Elder blasted the ball into the hands of fifth-year senior goalkeeper Michelle Anderson (Regina) to keep the game scoreless.

The teams entered the half deadlocked at 0.

In the second half, Reichgeld (North Vancouver, B.C.) took on Regina's Nicole Wescott (Regina), catching the fullback flat-footed with a nice dodge move and them put the ball past a helpless Anderson for the game's only goal. #Stephanie Parker# (Chemainus, B.C.) made four saves to earn the shutout win.

"Right now we're one point up for the fourth and final playoff spot," Reichgeld said. "Every point counts right now so that win was huge... I got a great through ball and then one-on-one with a defender and I managed to beat her and managed to place it in the corner as we've been practicing all year."

"At the half, our coaches were talking about how their goalkeeper cuts the angle down well and that we needed to place the ball… it worked out for us."

UVic now prepares for the crucial home-and-home with Fraser Valley (3-6-3, 7th place, 12 points) to close out the season.

"Maryse is very very quick and she just seems to find the goal and when she came in she was fresh," said Vikes head coach #Tracy David#. "She brought something different to the game which I think caught them a little bit (off guard)."

"As always, the Canada West soccer season is so competitive, you can never afford to drop points at any point in time in the season," David said. "It's a dog-eat-dog world… We just have to take one game at a time and we  don't look past the competition. We have to go into Fraser Valley next week and Fraser Valley is a tough place to go in. It's a tough to play in there, it's a tight little playing field, and they're a good teams so we need to get ready for them."