BETHANY, W. Va. -- The Baldwin Wallace University women's soccer team defeated host Bethany (W.Va.) College, 6-2, tonight. The victory was the fourth straight for the Yellow Jackets.
BW, now 7-1 overall, has now won four straight matches and next plays on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Defiance College in the first match of a women's and men's doubleheader at 1:00 p.m. With its loss, Bethany is 1-7 overall.
The Yellow Jackets opened the scoring in the 19-minute when Senior forward Kari Trivisonno (Mentor) scored on a breakaway via a pass from senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference forward Rachel Gokey (Seville/Cloverleaf). Trivisonno's fifth goal of the season gave BW an early, 1-0 advantage. Gokey's assist was her first this season.
Less than 30 seconds later, in the 20th-minute, Trivisonno scored off a cross from sophomore forward Audrie Wolfe (Hilliard/Darby) to make the score 2-0. It was Trivisonno's team-leading sixth goal of the season and the second assist for Wolfe.
BW increased its lead to 3-0 in the 41st-minute when senior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC midfielder Kayla Losco (Hopewell Township, Pa./Hopewell) found the head of senior All-OAC forward Hannah Cavalier (Chippewa Lake/Cloverleaf) who scored off Losco's corner kick. Cavalier scored her second goal of the season and Losco had her team-high fourth assist. A year ago, Losco led the OAC with nine assists.
Thirty-three seconds later senior forward Heather Keller (Parma) scored her fourth goal of the season from the right side via a pass from freshman defender Kelly Gough (Hudson) to give the Yellow Jackets a 4-0 advantage. This was Keller's fourth goal of the season and Gough's second assist in 2013.
In the second half and in the 46th-minute, BW added its fifth goal of the contest when Wolfe scored her first goal of the season via a pass from sophomore forward Cheryl Bell (Piqua) to make the score 5-0.
The Yellow Jackets ended their scoring in the 78th-minute when junior forward Nicole Boyd (Warren/Howland) scored her first of the game and the first of her career off a pass from freshman midfielder Bree Gilliam (Baltimore, Md./Kenwood) to make the score 6-0.
In the 81st-minute, Bethany closed the gap and made the score 6-1 when forward Sarah London scored. The Bison closed out the scoring and got within 6-2 when forward Madison Cochran scored in the 86th-minute.
In goal for BW, sophomore Emily Tallmadge (Fairview, Pa.) started and played 45 minutes. She did not allow a goal.
In the second half was junior netminder Gabrielle Bodo (Alliance/St. Thomas Aquinas) played 30 minutes and did not allow a goal, and senior goalie Kristina Mathur (Mason) played the final 15 minutes and allowed two goals.
The Yellow Jackets outshot the Bison by an 24-5 count and had a 7-0 advantage in corner kicks.
After eight matches, Trivisonno tops the team in goals with six and scoring with 12 points. Keller is second in golals with four, assists with three and points with 11. Tallmadge has a 6-1 mark in goal, is allowing 1.22 goals-per-game and has 29 saves and one shutout. The victory also was a school-record 110th for veteran Head Coach Reid Ayers.
Following its game at Defiance this Saturday, the Yellow Jackets next play on Tuesday, October 1 when they travel to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania to play Waynesburg University at 6:00 p.m. The next home match is on Saturday, Oct. 5 when BW hosts Otterbein University in its Ohio Athletic Conference opener at The George Finnie Stadium in Berea at 4:30 p.m.
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