The Belmont Abbey women's soccer team clinched the Conference Carolinas regular season title with a 2-0 win at Barton this evening. The Crusaders, which had already clinched the number one seed in next week's Conference Carolinas tournament last week, moves to 15-1-1 overall and 9-0 in Conference Carolinas, while Barton drops to 2-12 overall and 1-8 in Conference Carolinas.

Abbey junior Elsie Hernandez gave the Crusaders the only goal they would need in the 39th minute, taking a feed from Silvia Vazquez on a through ball and firing home her first career goal into the back of the net.

That was all of the scoring until the 81st minute when regining league Player of the Year Connie Axiotis added an insurance goal, getting a pass from Ananda Gebreyesus and depositing the shot into the top left corner of the net to move the lead to 2-0.

Belmont Abbey outshot Barton 17-1 and held a 10-2 advantage in corner kicks.