STOCKTON, California – The #25 Pepperdine women's soccer team scored five times in the first 20 minutes and went on to an easy 6-1 victory at Pacific on Saturday afternoon in West Coast Conference play.
Trinity Watson scored twice for the Waves in a two-minute span, while
Madi Cook had a goal and an assist, as the Waves (4-2-0, 3-0-0) stayed perfect in the WCC this season as well as all-time against the Tigers (0-5-2, 0-3-1). Pepperdine is now 12-0-0 versus Pacific.
The Waves tied a program record – set against Pacific in 2017 – with six first-half goals. The six goals are a season high and the most since that 2017 game against the Tigers, which ended 9-0.
GOALS
Pepperdine 4': Senior forward
Joelle Anderson (San Jose, Calif./Harker School) got the ball at the top of the box and slid it to her right to freshman forward
Tori Waldeck (Newhall, Calif./Hart HS), who hit a perfect shot inside the left post. It was Waldeck's team-high third goal of the season.
Pepperdine 5': Senior forward
Calista Reyes (Las Vegas, Nev./Sierra Vista HS) got tripped up in the box and a penalty kick was awarded. Junior defender
Trinity Watson (Ocean Beach, Calif./Point Loma HS) buried it for a 2-0 lead.
Pepperdine 7': Watson scored again less than two minutes later. The Waves won a free kick just outside the box on the top right. Watson expertly bent her shot around the right side of the defensive wall and curled it back so it made it just inside the right post. These were her second and third goals of the season, tying her with Waldeck for most on the squad. Watson now has six career goals.
Pepperdine 18': After a couple of dribbles, senior midfielder
Madi Cook (Trabuco Canyon, Calif./Tesoro HS) unleashed a powerful left-footed shot from 25 yards out that beat the keeper inside the left post. It was her first goal of the season and the third of her career.
Pepperdine 20': Cook set up the next goal about a minute and a half later, as she played the ball ahead to Reyes. From the top left corner of the box, she dribbled toward the middle, cut back to her left, and hit a high, hard shot that the Pacific goalkeeper couldn't reach. It was Reyes' first goal of the season and eighth of her career.
Pepperdine 43': Pepperdine's second penalty kick came late in the first half, as freshman forward
Julianna Duckett (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif./Rancho Cucamonga HS) dribbled into the box and was taken down from behind. Senior midfielder/forward
Aliyah Satterfield (Valencia, Calif./West Ranch HS) converted the PK for her first career goal.
Pacific 55': The Tigers had a nice sequence early in the second half to avoid the shutout, with several Pacific players getting a touch until Ryanne Molenaar had a chance to finish in the box.
STATS
Shots: Pepperdine 16, Pacific 8
Shots on Goal: Pepperdine 11, Pacific 3
Saves:
Zoe Clevely (Pepperdine) 1,
Kinsey Ehmann (Pepperdine) 1, Brenna Crump (Pacific) 5
Corner Kicks: Pepperdine 5, Pacific 1
Fouls: Pepperdine 14, Pacific 19
Offside: Pepperdine 2, Pacific 1
QUOTABLE
Pepperdine Coach
Tim Ward said: "It was a great performance today. I don't remember the last time we started a game that well and that efficiently. It was a very special first-half performance that lays the marker down for the rest of the season. We were absolutely ruthless. Pacific has a good team, but we just capitalized on 95 percent of the chances we created.
"The first goal was a result of a good pressing sequence. Then Calista did a good job of getting into the box and clearly drawing a PK. On the third goal, Trinity stays after practice once or twice a week to work on free kicks and it was literally a world-class goal the way she bent it around the defenders. Madi hit a rising fastball, it was going up the whole time to the upper-corner of the net. The same thing for Calista, it was a piece of individual brilliance. On the sixth goal Julianna did an amazing job of getting in and getting fouled, and Aliyah scores.
"We got some new people on the scoreboard today and we're spreading it around. We've got so many good goal-scorers on this team. The defense did another great job, but today you've got to acknowledge the attackers."
NEXT
Pepperdine visits Portland next Friday (March 19) at 1 p.m.
