Consider Wydown Boulevard defended. Well defended. The women’s soccer team downed across-the-street rival Fontbonne University in blowout fashion, 8-0 Monday night. Six different players scored for the 13-2 Bears, who won their eleventh straight game.
Since Fontbonne does not have an on-campus soccer venue, the game was played on the field turf at Clayton High School with temperatures in the mid-thirties. Junior Katie Campos led Wash. U., scoring a goal in each half and adding an assist.
Co-captain MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn jumped on the Griffins in the fifth minute. She collected the ball at the top of the box, touched the ball to her right and fired a fastball to the upper right corner of the cage to put the Bears ahead, 1-0.
Eleven minutes later, freshman Caryn Rosoff deposited her team-leading 10th goal of the season in to the corner of the net. When Rosoff received the pass from teammate Marin McCarthy, it looked as if she had no room to work on the Griffins’ end line. But one move later, McCarthy chipped a shot across the face of the goal, and the Bears led by two scores.
Apparently the Bears had an appointment with the floodgates scheduled for the 37th minute. Indeed, it was at that point that the aforementioned gates opened.
Over the proceeding ten minutes the Bears scored a fistful of times. First, Caitlin Malone made a crafty step-over move, juking a Griffin defender and beating goalkeeper Claire Ward. Then sophomore Lauren Mehner headed one past Ward on a corner kick.
Campos made the score 5-0 with a ball to the nearside post in the 43rd minute. Mehner followed with a shot from the 18-yard line that ricocheted off the crossbar and bounced in, to put the Bears up by a touchdown. But Campos would not be outdone by Mehner. Campos added the extra point on a breakaway in the 47th minute to put the Bears up 7-0.
After taking the weekend off, head coach Wendy Dillinger was pleased with her team’s effort. “It shows that we’re back on track after the break. It was a good tune-up for the weekend.”
Sophomore Jenny Philip scored on a one-timer from Carter Schwarberg to complete the eight-goal offensive attack.Goalies Carrie Sear, Amanda Boe and Caroline Shaikewitz combined for the shutout, making one save.
“This was great,” said Fowler-Finn, who was pleased with the seventh-ranked Bears’ performance against a sub-.500 team like Fontbonne (4-7-3). We kept up our level of play. Normally we make it way too close in games like these.”
The Lady Bears tangle with the Judges of Brandeis University on Friday at Francis Field. Kickoff is at 5 p.m.