PORTLAND, Ore. – Senior
Celeste Schreifels set the Lewis & Clark College women's soccer program record for game-winning goals on Sunday night, scoring her second goal of the match against NAIA Warner Pacific University to break a 1-1 tie in the first half at the Eastside Timbers Sports Complex. The Pioneers went on to defeat the Knights 5-1, marking their highest-scoring game and largest margin of victory since the 2021 season.
THE BASICS
Lewis & Clark 5, Warner Pacific 1
(Lewis & Clark 2-1-1)
(Warner Pacific 2-2-1)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Four Pioneers scored goals and five registered assists against the Knights in the best offensive outing for Lewis & Clark since a 4-0 win over Willamette on October 7, 2021.
Sophomore
Grace Smith found the foot of Schreifels at 26:17 to tie the game at a goal apiece. With the equalizer, Schreifels scored a goal in three consecutive games for the second time in her career and recorded a point in three straight contests for the fourth time.
In the 34
th minute, sophomore
Iris Stutzman linked up with Schreifels for the second game in as many days. At 33:41, when the ball found the back of the net, Schreifels set the new program record with her 10th career game-winning goal, breaking a three-way tie with former Pioneers Emily Thompson and Anna Thorndike, who played from 2012-15.
Smith scored an insurance goal for Lewis & Clark in the 59
th minute when sophomore
Mackenzie Olver found the midfielder at 58:56. It marked the first collegiate point and assist for Olver.
The Pioneers didn't let up, as 62 seconds later, junior
Megan Yanagi scored her first goal of the season off an assist from senior
Abby Hayes to extend the lead to 4-1.
First-years
Sophia Gill and
Kailani Pascua teamed up for the night's last Lewis & Clark goal. Pascua earned her first collegiate assist when she found Gill, who scored her first career goal in the 86
th minute of the game.
Warner Pacific's Olivia Stumetz scored the lone goal against Lewis & Clark. Junior
Delaney Jones made her second straight start in net and recorded three saves to earn their second career win.
BY THE NUMBERS
- The Pioneers finished with 15 shots, all on target for the game. Stutzman finished with a team-high three shots on goal, and Smith, Yanagi and Schreifels all had two.
- First-year Ava Lazzara earned her third career start and recorded her first career shot on goal against the Knights.
- With her assist today, Hayes has recorded an assist in each of the last three seasons.
- This was the first countable meeting against Warner Pacific since September 6, 2011.
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark opens Northwest Conference play on Wednesday night in Salem against Willamette. The women will be the second game this season in a doubleheader with the men, so their game will start at 7:45 p.m.