Box Score

SEATTLE – Hannah Huesers has been ravenous recently, and her Falcons teammates intend to continue feeding her appetite for goals.
 
Huesers accounted for all of the scoring Saturday for the18th-ranked Seattle Pacific women, notching her first hat trick in a 3-1 road victory over Western Oregon in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference soccer game at WOU Soccer Field.
 
The junior forward found the back of the net in the 34th, 63rd and 86th minutes to increase her league-leading total to 10 goals.
 
Saturday's outburst extended a recent hot streak. Huesers amassed six goals during the last three games, all of them 3-1 wins.
 
"She's a beast. She's hungry to score right now and working hard to find opportunities," exclaimed SPU interim coach Arby Busey.
 
"Two of the three goals today were outstanding individual efforts in regards to her really being strong on the ball and fighting off some defenders to win a little bit of a battle, and then sticking the balls in there."
 
Huesers (Lake Stevens HS) topped all GNAC scorers last season with 15 goals. She has registered seven multi-goal performances during a 45-game collegiate career.
 
Busey credits Huesers' mentality on the shots that don't go into the goal for her recent scoring surge.
 
"She's showing the ability to forget about the last chance and be ready and looking for the next one. That's an important ability for forwards, all the great ones have it. They constantly have their eyes forward, looking for that next chance because there's nothing they can do about salvaging the last one."
 
The last hat trick by a Falcon came from current senior Laura Moore, who accomplished the feat at home against Northwest Nazarene on Oct. 11, 2014.
 
SPU (8-2-1) improved to 4-2-1 in conference games with its third straight win.
 
The Wolves (5-5-1) fell to 1-4-1 in GNAC play.
 
SPU applied offensive pressure from the opening whistle and tried the game's first four shots, including an attempt from Hueser just 28 seconds in that was saved.
 
The Falcons weren't rewarded until the 33:54 mark when Simone Herzberg served a cross into the box that Huesers finished to the lower right of the WOU goal.

Herzberg (Portland, Ore.) picked up at least one point in each of the last three SPU games, with one goal and two assists during that span.
 
The Wolves equalized seven minutes after halftime when Dacia Alexander dropped a pass back to Savannah Bogan, who found the top-right corner of the goal.
 
SPU reclaimed the lead 10 minutes later, at 62:09. Mickayla Mury (Kelso HS) slipped a through ball behind the defense, enabling Huesers to score after beating the goalkeeper one-on-one.
 
Huesers secured the win with an unassisted strike at 85:55. She stripped the ball from a WOU defender and dribbled into the box before delivering a 16-yard shot to the lower left of the goal. That was her fourth shot of the game. All four were on target and three of them resulted in goals.
 
Huesers continued her climb up the school's scoring chart. She has 31 career goals and is tied in fourth-place among SPU scorers with Jocelyn Charette (2007-09). Huesers still has some work to do during the rest of this season and next to displace the top-three: Sarah Martinez (2004-07) with 49 goals, Shannon Lovejoy (2002-05) with 42 and Megan Lindsay (2009-12) with 41.
 
Sophomore goalkeeper Molly Stinson (Woodinville HS) stopped one shot for SPU.
 
Goalkeeper Nicole Tejada made two saves for the Wolves, who were outshot by an 11-7 margin.

 

Saturday's result could have a positive carryover effect for SPU according to Busey.
 
"It's good to get out on the road and get the first one the way we that we did in the face of adversity. They equalized early in the second half and we had to come back. The weather started to turn on us. It got wet and rainy and the field started to deteriorate a little bit.
 
"So we had to fight through that. Doing that on the road is something that hopefully is a platform for the next three games where we are on the road again. We want to be comfortable and confident in foreign environments, even with a little adversity, to be able to get what we want out of those games, and that's to go to these places and get three points."
 
The Falcons remain on the road for two games next week. They visit Montana State Billings on Thursday at noon before a Saturday clash at 7 p.m. in Bellingham against third-ranked Western Washington.
 
The Falcons' next home game is Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. versus Saint Martin's.
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S SOCCER
Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015
WOU Soccer Field / Monmouth, Ore.
 
(#18) Seattle Pacific 3, at Western Oregon 1
 
Scoring – 1, SPU, Hannah Huesers (Simone Herzberg), 33:54; 2, WOU, Savannah Bogan (Dacia Alexander), 52:16; 3, SPU, Huesers (Mickayla Mury), 62:09; 4, SPU, Huesers, 85:55.
 
Shots – SPU 11, WOU 7.
Saves –SPU 1 (Molly Stinson), WOU 2 (Nicole Tejada).
Corner Kicks – SPU 1, WOU 1.
Fouls – SPU 7, WOU 12.
Offsides – SPU 3, WOU 0.
 
Records
Seattle Pacific 8-2-1, 4-2-1 GNAC
Western Oregon 5-5-1, 1-4-1 GNAC
 
Next SPU Women's Game
Seattle Pacific at Montana State Billings
Thursday, Oct. 15, 12:00 p.m.
Yellowjacket Field / Billings, Mont.