VIENNA, W. Va. (Women's Soccer) – The Shawnee State women's soccer team used a hat trick and an assist from Maddie Woodard (SO/Camden, Ohio), along with two goals by Schuyler Jones (SR/Ramnicu Valcea, Romania), to record the first win of the season for the Bears in blasting Ohio Valley by a 8-0 tally at Ohio Valley University on Saturday afternoon.
The Bears' offensive attack got going early and often as Shawnee State amassed an amazing 30 shots, with 21 of them coming on goal. Meanwhile, the stout Bear defense held the Fighting Scots to just seven shots, with only a trio of them coming on goal.
Both teams would go scoreless through the first seven minutes of the contest before Woodard opened the floodgates on an assist from Kyla Toles (FR/Williamsburg, Ohio) (who recorded the first assist of her career) at the 7:15 mark, putting the Bears up by a 1-0 count.
Seven minutes later, Jones broke through on a dish from Heather Hencye (SO/Russell, Ky.) in the 14th minute to score her 80th and 81st career points and put Shawnee State up by a 2-0 tally. Nine more minutes would come and go without a goal before Woodard broke the mini-drought once again off of a pass from fellow sophomore Jenny Campbell (SO/Chillicothe, Ohio) in the 23rd minute to extend the Bears' lead to a 3-0 advantage.
Over the following 10 minutes, Shawnee State would extend the gap by not one, but two goals, as Leslie Marsh (JR/Springboro, Ohio) got into the scoring act off of another assist from Campbell in the 28th minute. Five minutes later, Jones matched Woodard with her second goal of the game in the 33rd minute, with the latter assisting on the play, to extend to the deficit to a 5-0 advantage before the halftime break, capping off a half where the Bears outshot the Fighting Scots by a 19-1 mark while only committing two fouls to Ohio Valley's five.
In the second half, Woodard continued on her torrid pace in the 56th minute by completing a hat trick off of a pass by Adrianna Johnson (FR/Clarksville, Ohio), who (like Toles) recorded her first career assist with the resulting goal, with Campbell following Woodard by scoring her first goal of the year off of assists by Marsh and Toles in the 69th minute. The latter then capped off her second collegiate game with her first career goal off of another assist from Hencye to cap the game's scoring.
For Shawnee State, a total of four players had at least four or more points on the afternoon. Woodard led the way by grabbing seven points while Jones, Campbell, and Toles accumulated four points apiece. Marsh and Hencye also recorded multiple points on the day, with three and two, respectively.
In addition to the victory for the Bears, Michaela Garner (FR/Heath, Ohio) obtained her second shutout in as many days between the posts as the freshman pitched a shutout and garnered three saves over the duration of the contest.
On the quick road swing, the Bears went 1-0-1 to start the year. Shawnee State will be back in action in two weeks as the Bears will host their home opener against Union College on the Shawnee Turf.
