Box Score LANGLEY, British Columbia – Led by third-year forward
Charity Field (Burnaby, B.C.) with two goals and one assist the Trinity Western Spartans defeated the visiting Thompson Rivers WolfPack 4-0 Saturday evening at Chase Office Field in Langley, B.C. The win improves the Spartans to 7-1-3, while the loss drops the Heat to 5-4-2.
TWU fifth-year keeper
Hannah Miller (Langley, B.C.) made one save to record the win, while Thompson Rivers' Anessa O'Brien made four saves in the loss.
The Spartans came out quickly scoring twice in the opening four minutes to take early control of the match. TWU never looked back leading 3-0 at the half before finishing with a 4-0 win. Also scoring for the Spartans were fourth-year midfielder
Bryana Buttar (Abbotsford, B.C.) and fourth-year midfielder
Sierra Halldorson (Winnipeg, Man.)
AS IT HAPPENED
The Spartans Buttar opened the scoring, with her first as a Spartan, in the second minute of play when she converted a pass for Field to put TWU up 1-0. Just over two minutes later Field got her first of the night, converting a cross from second-year forward
Sophie Crowther (New Westminster, B.C.) to give TWU a 2-0 lead.
Field got her second, and fifth of the season, of the night in the 41
st minute on a near identical play to her first, again converting on a Crowther cross into the box.
Halldorson got her fourth of the season to seal the match for the Spartans in the 64
th minute, converting on a fine pass from rookie forward
Mansha Sidhu (Surrey, B.C.).
QUOTABLE
TWU Head Coach Graham Roxburgh
"A superb start for us. We asked our players to play faster transitioning the ball forward and
Erin Stewart (third-year, Winnipeg, Man.) did that. We were on our front foot right away and got behind them with two good quick goals. We generated some good chances and maybe could have had more, but we just have to keep it rolling and dictate the pass of the game. I thought that we let our foot off of the gas a little bit after we went up 2-0. But everybody played well tonight, and I'm super pleased."
"Really pleased with Sophie as she continues with her assist tally because she creates so much for us. And Charity was rewarded for her hard work and had some really nice finishes. It was nice for Brianna to get one and Mansha played a really nice ball into Sierra."
NOTABLE
- TWU enters this weekend ranked No. 7 in U SPORTS
- The Spartans outshot the WolfPack 16-4 in total shots and 8-1 in shots on goal.
- TWU had a 5-1 edge in corner kicks.
- The WolfPack finished with eight fouls, while the Spartans had seven.
- Crowther currently leads Canada West in points with 13 and assists with eight.
- Miller is third in Canada West in goals against average at 0.64, and fourth in save percentage with .821.
- The win gives TWU's Miller 37 Canada West regular season career wins, which is tied for fifth all-time in CW. TWU's Kristen Funk('12) holds the conference record with 43 wins.
- The shutout gives Miller 28.5 career Canada West shutouts, which is sixth in Canada West. She trails TWU Funk, who has 30 career shutouts, for the Spartan record. Former Spartan Ally Willamson ('16) holds the Canada West record with 34.5 shutouts. Williamson split her time between UBC and TWU.
- TWU has outscored their opponents 16-0 in the last five matches.
- The Spartans are 11-0-1 lifetime against the WolfPack.
- In their last meeting in the CW semi-final TWU defeated TRU 2-1 in overtime at UBC.
- Friday night the Spartans defeated the UBC Okanagan Heat 3-0 at Chase Office Field, while the WolfPack tied the UFV Cascades 1-1 in Abbotsford, B.C.
UP NEXT
The Spartans will head down Highway 1 to match up against the Fraser Valley Cascades on Sunday, October 8. Game time at Rotary Stadium is scheduled for 1 p.m. (PT) and can be seen live on Canada West TV.
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country, and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 14 U SPORTS team championships and 34 Canada West team championships.
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