DECATUR, Ga. – Avery Brown's big week has allowed the Maryville junior forward to set a season high in goals with five.
Brown scored her first collegiate hat trick Thursday to boost Maryville to an 8-0 blanking of Agnes Scott in Collegiate Conference of the South action. MC scored at least eight goals against the Scotties for the seventh consecutive match and improved to 33-0-1 in the series dating back to 2000.
Maryville scored four times in each half and outshot the hosts 55-2. Thirty-four of those shots were on target, and Agnes Scott goalkeeper Olivia Rosario came away with 25 saves (there was one team save).
Brown scored her third of the season in the fourth minute to get the party started. She made the score 5-0 and then 6-0 with goals in the first 14 minutes of the second half. Last Saturday, Brown scored twice in a 9-0 defeat of Wesleyan. Her five goals to date are one more than her season totals from each of her first two Maryville campaigns.
Sierra Lee scored her eighth of the season in the opening half after assisting on Brown's first goal. Lee stands second in the CCS goal-scoring race to LaGrange's Kaia King, who has nine. Those teams meet on Saturday at LaGrange, so conference bragging rights will be on the line.
Other Maryville first half goals belonged to
Ellie Schuld, her fourth, in the 38th minute and
Sadie Phelan, her third, in the 40th minute.
Baggett, McDonald Cap Scoring
After Brown completed her hat trick,
Maya Baggett found the net for her first collegiate goal in the 70th minute. And then
Grace McDonald closed the scoring with her second in as many matches, a tally in the 81st minute.
Sydney Mahr played the opening 45 minutes in goal before giving way for the first time this season to
Kristen Burns, who has been battling injuries. The newcomer Burns accounted for Maryville's only save in the contest.
The Scots improved to 7-1-4 overall and 4-0-0 at the halfway point of the CCS schedule. Agnes Scott is now 1-9-0 and 0-4-0.
Maryville is at LaGrange (4-6-2, 1-3-0 CCS) on Saturday in a 4 p.m. start.
