Santa Clara is normally a power in West Coast Conference Women’s Soccer. They’ve struggled this season, putting together a 2-2-2 conference record, but they were still clearly the better team Saturday afternoon against Oregon State, beating the Beavers 3-1 and dropping them to 2-8-4 overall, and 1-5 in conference play.
Santa Clara got on the scoreboard right at the one minute mark, when Kennedy Schoennauer got the ball to Raygen Lewis for an early lead. Their second goal came only a few minutes later, with Mailin getting the score this time. Their final goal of the night came right before the 20 minute mark, with the goal going to Lia Henkelmann.
Oregon State got a few shots on goal in the first, but finally converted one right before the end of the half. Santa Clara goal keeper Ally Harrison had come way too far out of the net to contest a play from Nathalie Lewis, that allowed Lewis to get the ball to Isa Calderon, who had a wide open net for the score…