Box Score

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Eight different players scored goals for Augustana Sunday evening as Coach Scott Mejia's club won its fifth consecutive match, 9-0 over Simpson at Thorson-Lucken Field. The Vikings improved to 7-1 on the season, while the Storm fell to 2-5. Augustana, ranked 22nd in the nation by D3soccer.com, travels to Wisconsin-Whitewater on Wednesday, September 23 to face the 16th-ranked Warhawks in a 7:00 p.m. match.
 
Sophomore Grace Iaquinta (Lincoln East HS, Lincoln, Neb.) got the hosts on the board in the sixth minute. She collected a loose ball 10 yards in front of the Simpson goal and blasted a shot off the cross bar and in for her fourth goal of the season.
 
Senior Stef Hamaker (Rockford Boylan HS, Caledonia, Ill.) and sophomore Mady Huber (Legacy HS, Broomfield, Colo.) both scored their first goals of the season to extend the lead to 3-0. Hamaker's was a header off a Brianne Frys (Fremd HS, Palatine, Ill.) corner in the 19th minute and Huber's came off an assist from senior Somer Druszkowski (Lincoln-Way Central HS, Manhattan,. Ill.) in the 22nd minute.
 
Viking scoring leader Kelly Farell (St. Ursula Academy, Sylvania, Ohio) got in on the act in the 32nd minute, knocking in a touch off of Huber's foot from directly in front of the Storm goal. Frys, who served the ball in from the far left wing, was credited with an assist as well.
 
In the 37th minute, freshman Jordyn Sundberg (Aurora Central Catholic HS, Oswego, Ill.) gathered a loose ball inside the box and put a left-footed shot past Simpson keeper Zoe Seiler for her second goal of the season. Augustana took the 5-0 lead to the halftime break.
 
It took less than two minutes of second-half play for the Vikings to get on the board again. Farell tallied her team-leading 10th goal of the season off assists from freshman Abby Wendell (Hersey HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Huber. In the 53rd minute, Frys delivered her third assist of the contest, feeding senior Jessica Kras (Glenbard North HS, Carol Stream, Ill.), who scored for the fourth time this season to make it 7-0. Less than a minute later, Kras assisted on the first career goal for freshman Karleen Gomez (Grayslake Central HS, Hainesville, Ill.).
 
Augustana's final score came on a 20-yard blast off the right foot of freshman Natalie DeBartolomeis (Mullen HS, Lone Tree, Colo.) in the 88th minute. The goal was her second of the season.
 
The Vikings' nine goals matched a season high which they've reached three times in the last five matches. Augustana has outscored the opposition 35-1 during its five-game winning streak. The hosts had advantages of 22-4 in shots and 8-1 in corners. Mejia used 28 players, including all three of his goalkeepers. Senior Meredith Chew (Paradise Valley HS, Phoenix, Ariz.) had two saves in 40 minutes of action and moved to 7-1 on the season with the win.