DECATUR, Ill. – Sophomore
Cami Colpitts netted a hat trick on Tuesday evening as the No. 5 Washington University in St. Louis women's soccer team defeated Millikin 7-0 on the road. The Bears are now 9-0-1 on the season.
The Bears scored their first goal of the game at the 14:48 mark as Colpitts played a give-and-go with senior
Ella Koleno and finished off a cross for her first goal of the day.
Colpitts scored again in the at the 17:00 mark, putting in a ball from junior
Keira Smyser. Just 42 seconds later, Colpitts completed her hat trick, finishing off a cross from Koleno for her fifth goal of the season.
WashU made it a 4-0 game in the 22
nd minute as first-year
Monica Morales-Martinez scored her first-career goal as a Bear on a long cross from Koleno, finishing into the high left corner of the net.
Junior
Allie Goulding made it a 5-0 game for the Bears in the 36th, taking a short pass from first-year
Heidi Fesler and firing a long ball past Millikin's diving goalkeeper.
First-year
Ridley Newton scored her first-career goal at WashU in the 41
st minute, taking a pass from sophomore
Olivia Clemons and chipping it into the left corner for the 6-0 lead.
WashU scored one more goal in the second half, as
Julia Moore scored her first goal of the year in the 51
st minute, putting away a short pass from senior
Kerrigan Ferland.
Colpitts recorded a team-high seven shots with four shots on goal and three goals. Newton had three shots, all on goal while Clemons and Moore each had three total shots with two on goal.
Three goalkeepers combined for a shutout – sophomores
Suzie Green and
Heidi Schultz and junior
Charlotte Shapiro. Green made the lone save on the day for the Bears.
WashU is back at home on Saturday after nearly a month on the road as the Bears open UAA play with a 1:30 p.m. game against No. 10 Brandeis. The game will be Youth and Campers Day.
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