WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The Concord University women's soccer team rolled to an 8-3 win over West Liberty Sunday afternoon in a Mountain East Conference contest at the West Family Complex.
With the game tied 2-2 through 29 minutes, the Mountain Lions (7-5-1, 6-3-1 MEC) scored two more goals before the halftime break as senior forward
Nora Voisey and senior midfielder
Anna Davis found the back of the net in the 38
th and 42
nd minutes, respectively, to push Concord to a 4-2 halftime advantage.
The scoring continued early in the second half as freshman midfielder
Marika Svensson tallied her seventh goal of the season in the 48
th minute. And senior forward
Sydney Tucker completed her third hat trick of the season in the 62
nd minute on a redirect from junior forward
Caitlin Webster—Tucker tallied CU's first two goals in the 10
th and 14
th minutes of the game.
Freshman midfielder
Lilly Lucas scored for the first time in her from a corner kick that was unable to cleared away in the 79
th minute, and Davis capped the scoring in the 84
th minute with her first career two-goal game.
West Liberty (3-8-2, 2-6-2 MEC) got out to a 1-0 lead in the third minute from its own corner kick goal. After the Mountain Lions went up 2-1 on Tucker's second of three goals, WLU came back with a goal in the 29
th minute to square the game at 2-2.
After netting her third hat trick of the year, Tucker is one of two players in Division II with three or more hat tricks this season, joining Clayton State's Carrie Consolino. Tucker's 13 goals are just one off the national lead being paced by Consolino and Reese McDermott of Colorado Mines.
Tucker and Webster both had two assists in the game while Svensson added one assist.
CU took 30 shots in the game with 13 on frame.
Freshman goalkeeper
Maddie Loughborough made four saves in the game.
The Mountain Lions return to Callaghan Stadium to face West Virginia Wesleyan 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
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