SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – First-year Lizzie Hardy scored four goals and senior Hannah Shaw added three goals and one assist helping The College of Wooster to a 20-5 road victory over Wittenberg University on Saturday afternoon at Edwards-Maurer Field.
Wooster opened the scoring three minutes into the contest when senior Jill Murray scored off an assist from classmate Britta Treu on the heels of a yellow card by Wittenberg's Chirumbolo McKee. The player-up goal was Murray's 26 of the season. She would finish the day with two goals on three shots, running her career total for goals scored to 92.
The Fighting Scots continued to pour on the pressure, scoring five of the next six goals to take a 6-1 lead into the second quarter.
In the second frame, Shaw scored her second goal of the afternoon after a caused turnover and groundball by senior Clare Leithauser. Leithauser led Wooster with five groundballs and four caused turnovers. She also moved into fifth place in career groundballs with 165.
Two goals in 31 seconds by Wittenberg's Grace Hehman cut the Wooster lead to 9-4 with 7:08 left in the second quarter. The Scots rebounded with free position goals by first-year Brynne Snaguski and Hardy to take an 11-4 lead into halftime.
Wooster opened the third quarter with six straight goals to put the game away. In the third quarter, Hardy scored two of her game-high four goals. Shaw also racked up her third goal of the contest. Like her teammate, Murray, Shaw is also rapidly approaching the 100-goal milestone. Shaw's hat trick ran her career total to 97 goals heading into Tuesday's game at Kenyon.
Treu finished with a game-high four assists, which moved her past Megan Sward (32) and Emma Lawrence (33) into fifth place on the single-season assist leaderboard. Treu has racked up 35 assists in 2023. The single-season leader is Beth Hemminger, who logged 38 helpers in 2002.
Wooster outshot Wittenberg 38-17 while holding a 15-13 edge in draw controls. After setting the program's record for draw controls on Tuesday against Denison, Shaw again led the way with six.
Sophomore JG Garrison scored collegiate win one with the start in goal. Classmate Ashley Reynolds played the second half and finished with five saves.
Wooster improves to 10-2 overall and 1-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, while Wittenberg drops to 2-11 and 0-3 in conference play. The Scots will travel to Kenyon College (12-0, 2-0 NCAC) on Tuesday, April 18, for a 4 p.m. matchup.
photo by Abbi Tarburton '22