DEFIANCE, Ohio – Kenyon College had six different players record a goal Thursday as the Ladies soccer team rolled to 6-0 win at Defiance College. The win was the Ladies' fourth in a row and brought their record to 4-3-0, lifting the team over the.500 mark for the first time this season.
As the score indicated, the Kenyon offense was clicking. The six-goal outburst was the program's best single-game tally since a 7-0 win against Hiram College in the 2006 season. During their current win streak the Ladies are averaging 3.75 goals per contest.
Kenyon blitzed Defiance (1-5-0) with 45 shots and split its six goals evenly between the two halves.
Claudia Brown,
Heather Pacheco and
Maggie Smith recorded the first-half scores for the Ladies. Brown, a freshman, now has three goals on the season and Smith, a junior, leads team with an updated total of five goals this season. For Pacheco, a sophomore, the goal was her first this year and the second of her career.
Another sophomore,
Gillian Blackwell, played a role in the next two Kenyon scores. In the game's 62nd minute she assisted on a goal scored by
Brianna Maggard. Eight minutes later, Blackwell scored on her own. Maggard's goal was her third in the last two games, while Blackwell's score was her second in as many games.
The Ladies' final tally came from freshman
Meredith Rogers and was set up by senior
Mattie Mayer. It was Rogers' first collegiate goal and Mayer's first collegiate assist.
Kenyon's enormous lead cleared the way for 21 different Ladies to log playing time against the Yellow Jackets.
Kenyon senior goalkeeper
Alissa Poolpol faced just two shots and saved both of them to notch her third shutout of the season and improve her goals against average to 0.70.
The Ladies now head back to Gambier facing a lengthy home stand. They'll host Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Saturday and then four more consecutive home games with the last one occurring on October 3 against DePauw University.
Gillian Blackwell scored one goal and assisted on another Thursday evening as the Ladies soccer team
rang up a 6-0 shellacking of the Yellow Jackets from Defiance College.