Oct. 10, 1999
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State women?s soccer team remains undefeated in Mountain West Conference play after handing Wyoming a 6-0 defeat on Sunday in Laramie, Wyo.
The Aztecs (9-4 overall, 2-0 Mountain West) jumped on the Cowgirls early and kept the pressure on all game, outshooting Wyoming, 24-6. SDSU senior midfielder Megan Mattes got the Aztecs on the board at the 17:19 mark when she headed in a cross from SDSU?s all-time assist leader, senior forward Lori LaCoursiere.
LaCoursiere, who is also State?s all-time leading goal scorer, upped the Aztec lead to 2-0 when she found the back of the net off of a free kick at 38:43 to improve her team-leading total to seven goals on the year.
Once the second half began, the rout was on, as freshman midfielder Michele Wagner scored her second goal of the weekend and her third of the year on a one-on-one with Wyoming keeper Amanda Vandervort in the 48th minute. Just three minutes later, freshman defender Serena Pearson got into the scoring action, when she sent a loose ball that slipped out of Vandervort?s hands into the net . The goal was the first of Pearson?s collegiate career.
SDSU matched its highest scoring output of the year when junior midfielder Elicia Petre cashed in on a corner kick taken by senior defender Kelly Grogg at 69:21.
Junior midfielder Tina Atwood rounded out the scoring when she scored the first goal of her Division I career, finishing off of a Fay deLeon assist at 88:39. deLeon?s assist was her eighth of the year, a mark which ties her with LaCoursiere for the team lead, and also ties her with LaCoursiere and Grogg for the eighth-best single-season assist mark in Aztec history.
SDSU sophomore goalkeeper Linnea Quinones was only required to make three saves en route to going the distance and upping her shutout total to 3.5 on the year.
Sunday?s victory was the Aztecs most lopsided win ever against a Mountain West Conference opponent, and also tied its highest single-game scoring output since 1992. In SDSU?s two games this weekend against Air Force and Wyoming, the Aztecs scored eight goals while shutting out both the Falcons and Cowgirls.
SDSU will continue its conference schedule at 1 p.m. on Thursday when it hosts Utah at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista.Score 12FinalSDSU246Wyoming000
Goals17:19SDSUMegan Mattes (Lori LaCoursiere)38:43SDSULori LaCoursiere (Unassisted)47:52SDSUMichele Wagner (Kaycee McElree, Serena Pearson)50:58SDSUSerena Pearson (Lori LaCoursiere)69:21SDSUElicia Petre (Kelly Grogg)88:39SDSUTina Atwood (Fay deLeon)
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