Greenville, Ill. – The No. 1 Washington University in St. Louis defeated Greenville 3-0 on Wednesday evening in the final non-conference game of the regular-season. The Bears are now 14-0-1 on the year and are the lone team across all divisions and genders to not conceded a goal yet.
With the shutout, senior goalkeeper
Sidney Conner becomes the program's all-time leader for shutouts with 32 in her career thus far.
The Bears got on the board in the 17
th minute as junior
Nicole Schmidt scored her first-career goal following a corner kick.
Just two minutes later at the 18:05 mark, graduate student
Madeline Allburn scored her third goal of the season to put WashU up 2-0.
Junior
Sara Giannotti added another goal for the Bears in the 35
th minute to give them a 3-0 edge at the half.
WashU dominated on both ends, recorded 20 shots with eight on goal while holding Greenville to just three total shots.
Conner made her first save of the game in the 33
rd minute on a Vanessa Ramirez attempt. She stopped another shot in the 68
th minute by Mia Long and with just 22 seconds remaining, kept the Panthers off the board with a save on an Emma Cadwell shot.
First-year
Anna Rosato registered a team-high five shots for the Bears while both Allburn and first-year
Julia Moore had three apiece.
The Bears host Rochester on Sunday at 11 a.m. Prior to the game, WashU will honor its seven seniors.