WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Senior forward
Britta Lagerquist (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel) and freshman midfielder
Kiara White (Perkiomenville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) both scored a pair of goals and each added an assist Saturday afternoon to help lead the Grove City College women's soccer team to a 7-0 victory at Washington & Jefferson in Presidents' Athletic Conference play at Alexandre Stadium.
Senior forward
Emma Herrmann (Hilton, N.Y./Paul V. Moore), sophomore midfielder
Hannah Plunkard (Slippery Rock, Pa./Slippery Rock) and freshman midfielder
Marina Hahn (Beaver, Pa./Beaver) also scored for the Wolverines, who clinched a bye into the semifinals of the season-ending conference tournament.
Grove City (11-3-2, 8-0-1 PAC) broke open the match in the first half by scoring four times in a 19-minute span. Herrmann scored her team-leading 19th goal of the season at 20:15 after receiving an assist from Lagerquist.
Plunkard pushed the lead to 2-0 at the 32:10 mark when she turned White's pass into her first goal of the 2024 season. White then scored an unassisted goal at 36:55, giving Grove City a 3-0 advantage.
Hahn capped the first-half outburst with an unassisted score at 39:05.
Lagerquist scored consecutive goals in the first nine minutes of the second half. She scored at 49:48, following an assist from senior midfielder
Erin Venus (Medina, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian). Lagerquist tacked on Grove City's sixth goal of the afternoon at 56:02.
White closed the scoring at 68:16 with her second goal of the match.
Grove City posted a 35-8 edge in total shots, including a 17-7 advantage in shots on goal. The Wolverines had eight corner kicks while W&J (5-10-2, 2-6-1 PAC) had five corners.
Senior goalkeeper
Courtney Lisman (Mars, Pa./Mars) stopped seven shots to secure the shutout. It is the Wolverines' fourth whitewash of the season.
Hahn leads Grove City's newcomers with six goals and 15 points this year. White has five goals and four assists, good for 14 points. Herrmann recorded her third game-winning goal of the season. She has 39 goals in her two seasons at Grove City, moving her into fourth place on Grove City's career scoring list. Michelle Novosel (2001-04) is third with 49 goals.
Grove City remains tied atop the conference standings with Westminster (8-0-1). The teams tied their October 11 match at Grove City, 2-2. Grove City will clinch the top seed in the six-team conference tournament with a win next Wednesday at 7 p.m. over visiting Waynesburg University.
The Wolverines will win a head-to-head tiebreaker with Westminster due to better goal differential. Currently, Grove City owns a plus-23 goal differential in league play while Westminster is plus-15. Teams can accumulate no more than a plus-4 goal differential in a match, regardless of final score. Westminster hosts W&J at 6 p.m. Wednesday.