GUNNISON, Colo. – Lile Dere wasted no time getting her team on the board, scoring her first collegiate goal at the 4:55 mark, as the Colorado Mesa women's soccer picked up their first road win in dominant fashion, shutting out the Western State Mountaineers, 5-0 for the second time in a week.
The Mavericks outshined the Mountaineers in all but one category on the day. As a team they took a total of 28 shots, 21 of which came on goal. The Mountaineers tallied just three shots on the day, one of which was targeted at the goal mouth. Along with the pressure on goal, the Mavericks created opportunities to get corner kicks picking up 10 to Mountaineers zero.
Although the score didn't necessarily show it, between two Mountaineer goalkeepers they picked up 16 saves.
Dere needed less than five-minutes to score, capitalizing of a missed touch from Mountaineer defender and taking a long shot from outside the box to the opposite corner out of the keeper's reach. The goal marked her first of the season and first collegiate career goal in a Maverick uniform.
Paige Vogel would follow up with another goal at 22:40, with some help from
Paisley Teele and
Lexi Newton. Teele found some open turf and sent a pass up to Newton who took it towards the goal and crossed it to an open Vogel who tapped it in for the 2-0 lead.
Barely thirty seconds later, on an identical scenario Dere picked up her second goal of the day for the 3-0 advantage. Newton picked up another assist, as well as
Mikayla Eccher who sent the initial pass up the field.
Just about seven minutes into the second half, the Mavericks set up a corner kick. Just as defender
Bobbie Golik wound up to send the shot across the box, she passed it to a charging Eccher who took one touch and took blazing shot that found the top-right part of the goal to put the team at 4-0.
Yet again from the corner, Mavericks
Sydney Hathaway snuck it in off the inbound pass for the fifth and final goal of the day.
Chloe Dody suited up in goal, and saw very little action as her team kept the ball on the Mountaineer's half of the field but did come up with a save.
The Mavericks will look to ride the momentum into Sunday's conference opener against Westminster. The doubleheader will feature the women at 12 p.m. followed shortly by men's soccer against the Griffins at 2:30 p.m.
