Pronghorns no match for defending U SPORTS Champions
Rebecca Jane Photography
0
Lethbridge LET (0-10-2, 0-10-2)
8
Winner MacEwan GMU (10-2-0, 10-2-0)
Lethbridge LET
(0-10-2, 0-10-2)
0
Final
8
MacEwan GMU
(10-2-0, 10-2-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Lethbridge LET 0 0 0
MacEwan GMU 3 5 8

Game Recap: Women's Soccer | | MacEwan Sports Information

Pronghorns no match for defending U SPORTS Champion

EDMONTON – It quite possibly might be the most prolific shooting display in Griffins women's soccer history.
 
MacEwan fired 48 shots on Sunday afternoon at Clarke Stadium – 21 of them on target – in an 8-0 rout of the Lethbridge Pronghorns that pushes their Canada West Prairie Division-leading record to 10-2-0.
 
It's the Griffins' eighth win in a row and perhaps the most dominant one they've ever had since joining Canada West.
 
The loss drops the Pronghorns to 0-10-2 with only two games remaining in the Canada West season.
 
Grace Mwasalla scored three goals and added an assist as she extended her program single-season record and took over the Canada West scoring lead, now with 13 goals on the season, passing UBC's Danielle Steer (12).
 
Other notable MacEwan performances included Maya Morrell, who tied the program single-game record with 10 shots and produced a goal and an assist. Grace Schimpf and Nikki Brodeur also recorded one goal, one assist games, while Brenna Paquin and Alyx Henderson also scored.
 
Henderson opened the scoring in the 14th minute on a sharp angle blast that picked the far side. Then Mwasalla got cooking with goals in the 18th (a one-time volley off a Brodeur cross) and 31st minutes (a rebound off an Anna McPhee corner kick).
 
Grace Schimpf made it 4-0 just after half-time on a cracker from the top of the box and Morrell extended the lead in the 52nd minute when she took a Mwasalla pass and busted in alone, slotting it in the corner.
 
Mwasalla completed the hat-trick in the 55th, heading home a Schimpf corner for her Canada West-leading 13th of the season.
 
Paquin (a tap in off a pass from Mariah Arnott after the ball spit out of a corner kick scramble) and Brodeur (a lunging header off a great Nicole Noble cross) finished off the scoring spree.
 
With the game well in hand, Cordeiro got several players into the lineup who haven't seen much action, including centre-back Renee DeCorby, who made her debut after an injury kept her out of the lineup all last season.
 
And the most heartwarming story of the day came with sisters in opposing nets. Erin Gill faced the full 90-minute onslaught from the Griffins, making 13 saves for the Pronghorns, while her younger sister was substituted into the match for MacEwan in the 58th minute, replacing starter Breanna Truscott, who earned the win with one save.
 
That set up a dream scenario for parents Tim and Jeanette, who came up from Red Deer to watch, and the rest of the Gill family. At times, they were louder than MacEwan's entire fan base.
"I definitely heard the support for my sister, and I was happy she was able to get that," said Toni, who is four years younger than Erin and got into goalkeeping because of her. "I was happy we were both able to be on the pitch at the same time.
 
"She played very well. I was very torn watching the game. I obviously wanted us to score and win, but I also wanted her to make a couple of saves. I think she did very good."
 
The Pronghorns will close out the 2022 Canada West season next weekend at home, hosting the Manitoba Bisons and Winnipeg Wesmen.
 
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