EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Evansville sophomore defender Kaylee Woosley's (Evansville, Ind./North) free-kick goal in the 86th minute on Sunday helped power the Purple Aces to a 1-0 victory over the visiting UIC Flames at Evansville's Arad McCutchan Stadium to push UE's unbeaten streak to seven-straight matches.

Woosley blasted a ball through the UIC wall from about 20 yards out and into the lower-left corner of the goal to give UE the 1-0 victory.  The goal was Woosley's first career goal at UE for the Evansville native.

Defensively, Evansville posted its fifth shutout of the season thanks to a strong effort in goal from senior goalkeeper Myia Danek (Laingsburg, Mich./Laingsburg).  Danek recorded eight saves in the match, including five saves in the first half to help Evansville keep the match scoreless through the first half.  Danek came up with a clutch save in the 44th minute, punching a shot by UIC's Sara Jacobs over the crossbar to keep the match scoreless.

"I thought that Myia really saved us in the first half," said UE head coach Chris Pfau.  "She was really on top of her game in the first half, and she made some huge saves to keep the match scoreless. 

"I also thought our backline did a tremendous job of slowing down a very good UIC team.  Even though UIC got eight shots on goal today, I thought our defense did a good job of not allowing them easy looks at goal, and I give a lot of credit to our defense for this win today."

UIC out-shot Evansville 15-9 overall, including holding an 8-5 edge in shots on goal, but the two teams were even shots-wise in the second half.  Freshman Brooklyn Robinson (West Haven, Utah/Fremont) led Evansville with three shots, with Woosley chipping in two, including the match-winner.  Sophia Jaime paced UIC's attack with five shots, including three on target on the afternoon.

With the victory, Evansville improves to 1-3-8 overall and 1-0-5 in the MVC.  UIC, meanwhile, sees its record move to 4-7-3 and 3-3-1 in the Valley with the loss.  Unbeaten in its last seven matches, Evansville will now travel west to Iowa this week for two matches on the road against MVC-leading Drake and UNI.  The road trip will begin Thursday afternoon with a 3 p.m. contest at second-place UNI (11-2-1, 4-2-0).  Thursday's match can be seen live on ESPN+.