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SEATTLE – Kellie Zakrzewski scored a pair of second-half goals, and Megan Lindsay continued her recent scoring tear with a goal midway through the first half as 14th-ranked Seattle Pacific beat Western Washington 3-0 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's soccer play on Saturday at Interbay Stadium.

The Falcons (11-2) did not surrender a goal in sweeping the season series from WWU (6-5-2). They won the first meeting 1-0 on Sept. 14 in Bellingham.

"It's awesome," Zakrzewski exclaimed. "We went up there and it was a pretty close game, 1-0. To have them come to our field and we pull out a 3-0 win is pretty big time. We put them away, destroyed them. That's what we wanted to do."

The two-time defending champion SPU women improved to 8-1 in league play and stretched their lead in the standings to six points. They have 24 points and second-place Montana State Billings (5-1-3) stayed at 18 points after suffering a 1-0 overtime loss against Saint Martin's.

The Vikings remained in fourth place with 15 points, dropping to 5-4 in conference games.



Senior goalkeeper Brooke Yokers (Kent, Wash./Kentridge HS) made four saves on 11 WWU shots to earn her second shutout of the week.

Lindsay (Spokane, Wash./Gonzaga Prep HS) put the Falcons on the board at 32:56. Playing 10 yards from the goal line just outside the penalty area on the attacking left side, Lindsay lofted the ball toward the far post. The 20-yard shot floated just under the crossbar and into the net, far beyond the reach of Vikings goalkeeper Jamie Arthurs.

That was the league-leading eighth goal of the season for Lindsay with seven of those coming during the last four games. She netted two goals in Thursday's 4-0 home win over Simon Fraser.

"It got our momentum going into halftime, even though 1-0 is a kind of a hard lead to have because they are back in it with one goal," Zakrzewski said of Lindsay's opening goal Saturday. "Fortunately we got two more and put them away and didn't give them a chance to come back in the game."

Those two goals both came from the feet of the Falcons sophomore forward.

Zakrzewski (Cheney, Wash./ Cheney HS) made it 2-0 at 53:34 when she stole the ball from Western's Alicia Patten about 40 yards up from the goal, went uncontested downfield and into the box one-on-one against Arthurs.

Zakrzewski's shot from 15 yards away appeared to be carrying just inches wide of the left post, but the ball caught the post and ricocheted into the net.

"The center back got the ball and was going to play the outside back. I read just read it and picked it off and went one-on-one to the goal and slotted the keeper," Zakrzewski described. "She was pretty far out of her goal, so I was a little nervous it was going to go wide. But it ended up tucking it into the corner, it bounced off the post and in."

Zakrzewski made it 3-0 at 83:16 when she drilled in a point-blank shot from the top of the 6-yard box. That was her sixth goal of the year.

The Vikings best chance came midway through the 66th minute when a corner kick by Emily Frankland was knocked into the net at the far post. But the goal was nullified by a Vikings foul in the box.

Although the Falcons have dominated the series over the years against WWU (they now lead it 16-4-3), Saturday's victory marked the first time since 2007 that they defeated their arch-rivals at Interbay. The 2008 and 2009 games both ended in 1-1 ties, and the Vikings won last year's Seattle contest, 1-0, on an 89th-minute goal.

The three-goal margin marked the most lopsided result in the series since SPU dealt the Vikings a similar 3-0 setback in Seattle during the 2006 season.

The Falcons play their next four games on the road, starting Thursday at 3 p.m. against Saint Martin's in Lacey, Wash.


NCAA WOMEN'S SOCCER
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Interbay Stadium / Seattle, Wash.

(#14) Seattle Pacific 3, Western Washington 0

Scoring – 1, SPU, Megan Lindsay (Andrea Chan), 32:56; 2, SPU, Kellie Zakrzewski (unassisted), 53:34; 3, SPU, Zakrzewski (Kelsey Jenkins, Riley Dopps), 83:16.

Shots – WWU 11, SPU 15.
Saves – WWU 3 (Jamie Arthurs), SPU 4 (Brooke Yokers).
Corner kicks – WWU 2, SPU 2.
Fouls – WWU 11, SPU 11.
Offsides – WWU WWU 0, SPU 2.
Cautions – WWU: Alicia Patten, 47:15. SPU: Annie Thomas, 72:51.
Ejections – None.
Attendance – 407.

Records
Seattle Pacific 11-2-0,  8-1-1 GNAC.
Western Washington 6-5-2,  5-4-0 GNAC.

Next game
(#14) Seattle Pacific at Saint Martin's
Thursday, Oct. 20, 3:00 p.m.