GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Senior forward Lacy Harkrader (Mineral, Va./Louisa County) scored a pair of goals and senior defender Megan Van Kirk (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) recorded a career-high three assists as the Grove City College women's soccer team cruised to a 5-1 victory over La Roche on Friday evening at College Field.

Freshman midfielder Maria Lauria (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park) netted the first goal of her collegiate career off of the first career assist from freshman midfielder Shannon Brawley (Belleville, Pa./St. Joseph's Catholic), and senior midfielder Lindsay Hutton (Hackettstown, N.J./Hackettstown) and freshman midfielder Michaela Burke (Gilbert, Ariz./Gilbert Christian) each added goals while senior forward Elena Guerra (Arlington, Texas/Nolan Catholic) tacked on an assist.

Grove City (3-2) jumped out to a 1-0 lead on La Roche (2-3-1) in the 14th minute when Hutton headed home a Van Kirk corner for her second goal of the season. Just three minutes later, Harkrader doubled the Wolverine lead to 2-0 by finishing a cross from Van Kirk at the doorstep for her first goal of the season.

Harkrader notched her second goal of the game and of the season in the 26th minute, once again from point blank range after Guerra found her with a cross, to give the Wolverines a 3-0 lead that they'd carry into halftime. Guerra's assist was her second of the year.

Burke extended Grove City's lead to 4-0 in the 58th minute, collecting and finishing a Van Kirk pass from the right endline inside the right post for her second goal of the season.

A Wolverine foul inside the box allowed La Roche to get on the board with a Vanessa Ceravolo penalty kick goal in the 61st minute, but Grove City would get that goal back in the 88th minute. Brawley collected a bouncing ball and poked it past a defender into the box, drawing the keeper off her line, and Lauria got just enough on it to poke the ball inside the left post to close the scoring at 5-1.

Senior goalkeeper Trisha Winters (Pittsburgh, Pa./Hampton) made one save during the first half to earn the victory in goal while freshman Columbia Harkrader (Mineral, Va./Louisa County) played the second half in net.

For the match, Grove City outshot La Roche 27-5, including 19-2 on goal, and the Wolverines held a 7-0 advantage in corner kicks.

Van Kirk's three assists are the most by a Wolverine in one match since Becky McManus assisted on three goals in Grove City's 6-0 rout of Juniata in the ECAC Quarterfinals at College Field on November 13, 2013.

Grove City returns to action on Wednesday, visiting Penn State Behrend for a 7 p.m. non-conference match.