GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College women's soccer team earned a 4-1 victory Friday night over visiting Bethany on Senior Night at Don Lyle Field. Grove City, which recognized seniors
Danae Hurd (Spring Mills, Pa./Penns Valley),
Melia Lamie (Grove City, Pa./Grove City),
Lydia Sedjo (West Chicago, Ill./Wheaton Academy) and
Hailey Weinert (Bel Air, Md./Kennett, Pa.) prior to Friday night's match, has now won five straight matches overall, including four in Presidents' Athletic Conference play.
Weinert helped Grove City take a 1-0 lead at 9:10 when she assisted a goal by sophomore forward
Britta Lagerquist (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel). The lead doubled at 15:34 when junior midfielder
Anna Jenkins (Lynchburg, Va./Lynchburg) blasted in an unassisted goal.
Jenkins extended Grove City's lead to 3-0 at 33:06 with her fifth goal of the season. Sophomore forward
Natalie Merrick (Cranberry Township, Pa./Eden Christian) assisted Jenkins's goal.Â
Bethany's Morgan Keelan cut the lead to 3-1 by scoring 5:19 into the second half. Grove City (7-6-1, 4-2-1 PAC) reclaimed its three-goal lead at 62:18, however, as Lagerquist scored her second goal of the night. Junior defender
Rachel Sullivan (Simsbury, Conn./Simsbury) assisted on the goal.Â
Lagerquist leads Grove City with eight goals this year. Jenkins has a team-leading three game-winning goals.
Grove City outshot Bethany (9-3-3, 3-3-1 PAC) by a 23-4 margin, including a 13-2 edge in shots on goal. Grove City had six corner kicks while Bethany had one corner.Â
Sophomore goalkeeper
Courtney Lisman (Mars, Pa./Mars) played all 90 minutes in goal, earning her seventh win of the season.
Hurd has played in 51 career games at defender for Grove City while Lamie has made 32 straight starts. She has three assists this year. Sedjo has 40 career appearances at defender and midfielder while Weinert has made 64 appearances, including 35 starts. She has 21 career goals.
Grove City closes its home schedule Wednesday at 7 p.m. against conference foe Waynesburg.