GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College women's soccer team concluded its home schedule for the 2017 regular season Wednesday afternoon by rolling past Saint Vincent, 5-0, in Presidents' Athletic Conference action at College Field. Grove City (13-4, 7-1 PAC) has won eight straight matches overall and has outscored its last seven opponents by a 32-4 cumulative margin.
Senior midfielder
Lindsay Hutton (Hackettstown, N.J./Hackettstown) opened the scoring at 15:50 when she headed in a corner kick from senior defender
Megan Van Kirk (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny).Â
Grove City then broke open the match with three goals in a 10-minute span in the second half. Hutton scored her second goal of the afternoon at 55:54 when she again headed in a Van Kirk corner kick.
At 57:33, senior forward
Lacy Harkrader (Mineral, Va./Louisa County) extended Grove City's lead to 3-0 as she blasted a rebound into the goal. Senior forward
Elena Guerra (Arlington, Texas/Nolan Catholic) assisted Harkrader's goal.
Van Kirk recorded her third assist of the day at the 65:45 when she crossed the ball to sophomore midfielder
Ruby Mattson (Dallas, Pa./Dallas), who registered her seventh goal of 2017.Â
Freshman midfielder
Michaela Burke (Gilbert, Ariz./Gilbert Christian) capped the scoring with an unassisted goal at 78:43.
Grove City owned a 29-8 edge in shots, along with an 11-2 advantage in corner kicks.Â
Senior goalkeeper
Trishae Winters (Pittsburgh, Pa./Hampton) stopped six shots to earn the shutout win. It is her 14th career shutout, which sets the career program record. Winters had nine shutouts last year and has five more whitewashes this year. She owns a 30-10 career record.Â
Van Kirk tied a career high with three assists. She also had three assists September 15 at La Roche. Hutton leads the team with nine goals, including a conference-high five game-winning scores. Mattson is second on the team with seven goals while Burke and Harkrader each have six goals. Van Kirk leads the team with six assists and Guerra has five assists.
Grove City will conclude the regular season Saturday at conference rival Westminster. The match will begin at 11:30 a.m. at Memorial Field in New Wilmington.
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