Georgetown Scores Early, Often as Women’s Soccer Tops Pittsburgh, 6-0

WASHINGTON  –  Georgetown University Head Women’s Soccer Coach Dave Nolan told one of his players recently that goals are sometimes like waiting for the bus; you can be there for 25 minutes with nothing to show for it and then three will come at once.  That statement was never more true than on Sunday afternoon at North Kehoe Field as the Hoyas scored their first goal 24 seconds into the game and added five more en route to a 6-0 win over Pittsburgh on a cold and rainy day,

It was the seventh win in the last nine games for Georgetown, who improves to 10-4-0 overall and 4-2-0 in the BIG EAST, while the Panthers falls to 1-9-4 overall and 0-4-2 in league play.   The six goals were a season-high for Georgetown and the most in a BIG EAST game since scoring six against Pittsburgh in a 6-0 win during the 2002 season.

Senior forward Camille Trujillo (Albuquerque, N.M./St. Pius X) led the way for the Hoyas, scoring two goals and adding an assist as she moved into second all-time on the Hilltop with 28 goals.  Redshirt senior Ingrid Wells (Upper Montclair, N.J./Montclair) added a goal and an assist, giving her 100 points for her career as she becomes the first player in Georgetown history to score 100 or more points.

“Friday was disappointing (a 3-1 loss),” Nolan said.  “The kids were down as well. They knew we had a moment and we didn’t take advantage of it.  They knew we didn’t have a margin for error today. We spoke about us instead of being the team that reacts, of being the team that sets the tempo.  We couldn’t ask for anything more than scoring in the first 30 seconds of the game and that puts a different slant on the game because they start thinking it’s going to be a long day.  Thankfully for us, it was, and unfortunately for them, it wasn’t.”

Georgetown jumped on top after taking possession on the opening kickoff, with Trujillo sending a ball from the end line into the box to Wells, who just flicked the ball with her right foot and sent a ball that bounced into the far post, giving the Hoyas a 1-0 lead at 24 seconds.

That was all the Blue & Gray would need, but they would get plenty more.  Less than three minutes later, freshman midfielder Daphne Corboz (Greenbrook, N.J./Watchung Hills) sent a cross from the end line and Trujillo was there to head it past Pitt goalkeeper Nicole D’Agostino at 3:15.  The Hoyas added a third goal six minutes before the half when Wells, off a free kick from 25 yards out, sent a cross to the box and Corboz poked it into the lower left at 39:22.  The assist for Wells was her sixth this season and the 40th of her career and gave her 100 career points.

Georgetown continued the offensive showing in the second half as sophomore forward Kaitlin Brenn (Branchburg, N.J./Somerville) headed a shot into an open net after junior defender Christina O’Tousa (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor) slid into the box for a shot but had it saved by the Pitt goalkeeper and deflected up.

The lead grew to 5-0 in the 78th minute as the Hoyas mounted pressure again.  A shot from Trujillo was blocked, but as the ball was headed around in the box, sophomore Alexa St. Martin (Westford, Mass./Westford Academy) caught a piece of it and found an open Trujillo on the far side of the box.  Trujillo’s shot to the lower corner at 77:40 was her second goal of the game.  Georgetown closed out the scoring in the 85th minute when senior forward Samantha Baker (Long Beach, Calif./Wilson) took a shot from the top left corner of the box after a feed from Brenn.

Georgetown out-shot Pittsburgh, 21-8, and had a 4-2 advantage in corner kicks while senior goalkeeper Elizabeth Hanna (Waxhaw, N.C./Weddington) made one save.

Trujillo’s two goals and assist moved her into second on the team in scoring this year with 6 goals and 3 assists for 15 points, with 12 of those points in the last four games.   “Forwards, it’s a funny position, sometimes everything you hit goes in and sometimes it doesn’t go in,” Nolan said. She had a spell earlier in the year where she was getting in all the right spaces and nothing was going in, but she kept working hard.  She probably put too much pressure on herself, but there was never any question she was going to score.  As I told her, goals are like buses, you can wait 25 minutes and one doesn’t come by and all of a sudden three come by.”

Wells, meanwhile, has now scored 22 points this season, coming off 8 goals and 6 assists.  For her career, she has 30 goals and 40 assists, making her the first 100-point scorer in program history.  The team’s 5-3 co-captain departed after the game for Los Angeles, where she will be training with the United States National Team for the next week.

“We’ll look at that when the time is right, but I think she’s well aware of it and she’s proud of it, as are we,” Nolan said.  “But we’re all very excited for her this week as she gets to prove to the national team coach what a great player she is.  We hope she has a great week and comes back better for the experience.”

The Hoyas are home next weekend, hosting Cincinnati on Friday, Oct. 7 (3 p.m.) and Louisville on Sunday, Oct. 9 (1 p.m.).