GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon College women's soccer team has yet to yield a goal this season in North Coast Athletic Conference play. Saturday, that trend continued as the Ladies posted a 1-0 win against the DePauw University Tigers.

The Ladies' conference shutout streak spans six games and 560 minutes of play. Kenyon has outscored its NCAC opponents by a combined 10-0 count and Saturday's result improves the team's first-place NCAC mark to 5-0-1.
 

Overall, the Ladies possess a 7-6-2 record this season and they've shutout nine opponents. They've allowed just two goals in their last ten games and their current shutout streak (against all opponents) goes back five games and covers the last 439 minutes of play.

Against DePauw, eight Kenyon players celebrated Senior Day and one of those seniors, Gillian Blackwell, made all the difference. In the game's 86th minute, Blackwell erased any thoughts of extra time when she fired in her second goal of the season. Blackwell collected the ball in the left side of the DePauw box. She targeted the upper right corner of the goal and placed the ball there perfectly, just past the outstretched arms of DePauw goalkeeper Natalie Sheeks.

The Kenyon offense kept Sheeks busy, launching 14 shots her way. Seven of those shots were on goal and Sheeks saved all but Blackwell's. At the other end of the field, DePauw managed just one shot and it was off the mark. Kenyon sophomore goalkeeper Jillian Countey did not have to make a save to record her ninth shutout of the season. That total is one shy of the program's single-season record set by Alissa Poolpol two years ago.

Countey will head into the last week of the regular season with a 0.30 goals against average and a 0.926 save percentage. Those numbers are not only the best in the conference, but also rank top-15 among all goalkeepers in NCAA Division III.

Kenyon has already clinched a spot in the four-team NCAC postseason tournament. The Ladies are now looking to enter that tournament as the No. 1 seed. They have two games left to seal the deal. They'll play at Oberlin College on Tuesday and then head to Allegheny College on Saturday for the regular-season finale.