MOORHEAD, Minn. Road games have not been very kind to the Saint Mary's University women's soccer team of late.
Last Wednesday, the Cardinals traveled to St. Peter, Minn., to take on high-powered Gustavus, and the Gusties promptly scored four goals in a span of the game's first six minutes en route to a 5-0 first-half lead and a 5-0 victory.
Saturday afternoon, it was off to Moorhead, Minn., and a date with league-leading Concordia. And this time, it was the Cobbers who scored early and often netting two goals in the game's first five minutes, and five in the first half en route to a 6-0 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win.
Amy Ravenhorst and Morgan Bain each scored the first of their two goals before the game was five minutes old Ravenhorst's coming at the 3:39 mark, while Bain's was 1:19 later. After Ravenhorst made it 3-0 with her second at 22:38, and SMU gave the Cobbers a gift own goal to push the lead to 4-0, Betsy Olesen closed out the first-half scoring with her first of the season at the 41:43 mark.
Bain's goal five minutes into the second half closed out the scoring as Concordia dropped SMU to 0-4-0 in the MIAC and 1-11-0 overall.
Emily Strom (Waterford, Wis.) finished with 10 saves for the Cardinals, while Jamie Savage and Sandra Kane combined for a three-save shutout for the Cobbers (5-1-0 MIAC, 8-2-0 overall).