The Wolfpack women’s soccer team was defeated by the Demon Deacons, 2-1, at Dail Soccer Stadium on Thursday night. The NCSU squad held off a bombardment of scoring opportunities from the Wake Forest shooters but could not manage to prevent two of the 22 Deacon shots from finding the net.

Senior goalkeeper Kim Kern, who had a respectable 10 saves on the evening, blamed herself for allowing the game-winning goal.

“I might have had good saves but I should have had at least one of those two goals,” Kern said. “I’ll have it next defend.”

Despite the loss, Springthorpe saw positive aspects of his squad’s performance and will head to Maryland with a new focus.

“I thought we played well,” Springthorpe said. “This is a couple of games in a row where we’ve had periods of good play. We’ve been dangerous; we’ve scored a goal in every game so far. From an attack point of view, we’re able to get forward and make things happen. We had good portions of the play but we have to be able to sustain that a bit