GEORGETOWN, Texas – Southwestern used a 7-1 run at the end of the first half to erase a 6-3 deficit and went on to a 22-10 win over Augustana Wednesday at Varsity Field. The Vikings dropped to 1-1 on the season, while the host Pirates improved to 2-2.

 

Coach C.J. Holder's squad had five different players score in the first 13 minutes as it jumped in front 6-3. Senior Bailey Aasen (Park HS, Cottage Park, Minn.) got the Vikings on the board first with an unassisted goal almost three minutes in.
 
Southwestern's Raven Garcia answered a minute later and Hayley Donnelly added a goal at the 23:44 mark to put the Pirates up 2-1.
 
Augustana scored five of the game's six goals in the next 6½ minutes. Aasen assisted on Kate Hettiger's (Carmel HS, Carmel, Ind.) game-tying tally and Christina McCabe (Maine South HS, Park Ridge, Ill.) scored off a Sandra Pielechaty (Taft HS, Chicago, Ill.) assist to make it 3-2.
 
After a Natasha Perez-Krause goal for Southwestern, freshman Margaret Cecilio (Archbishop Mitty HS, San Jose, Calif.) had consecutive goals, assisted by classmates Hettiger and Cassie Kruse (Hinsdale Central HS, Clarendon Hills, Ill.), respectively. Pielechaty's unassisted goal at 17:04 of the first half gave the Vikings a 6-3 advantage.
 
Garcia's free position goal started a string of six straight by Southwestern. Freshman Sydney Rector (Fishers HS, Fishers, Ind.) scored with three minutes left in the half to pull Augustana to within 9-7, but Pirate Johnee Wolter found the net just before the halftime horn to give her team a 10-7 lead at intermission.
 
Southwestern scored the first three goals of the second half and although Aasen scored twice and Hettiger added another goal, the Vikings couldn't slow down the Pirates. The hosts scored six times in the last 11 minutes to account for the final.
 
Aasen led Augustana with three goals, two assists and three ground balls. Hettiger had two goals and a pair of assists and Cecilio scored twice. Kruse had a team-high four draw controls. Garcia, Wolter and Madison Godleski each scored four times for Southwestern.
 
Sophomore Courtney Veitch (Lake Zurich HS, Hawthorn Woods, Ill.) recorded 14 saves in goal, while her Pirate counterpart, McKenna Zinke, had 10.
 
The Vikings are scheduled to play their 2019 home opener on Sunday, March 3. Albion will be the opponent in a 1:00 p.m. contest at Thorson-Lucken Field.