GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Hannah Dunn and Helen Summerell each scored two goals to lead ninth-ranked Catawba College to a 4-0 win over Tusculum University in South Atlantic Conference women's soccer action Saturday at Pioneer Field.
Dunn also had an assist and Sharon Mayes had a pair of assists for the Indians (9-0-1, 3-0-1 SAC), who held the Pioneers (4-3-1, 0-3-1 SAC) to two shots on goal in recording their seventh consecutive shutout. Sierra Davis had both saves for Catawba, which outshot Tusculum 12-8 in the match.
Catawba scored on the first shot of the game just 4:17 into the first half as a short pass from Sydney Jimmo went to Summerell at the corner of the 6, and she chipped a shot over Tusculum keeper Grayson Patterson for her sixth goal of the season.
Dunn nearly made it 2-0 Catawba less than a minute later, but Patterson used her legs to deflect the 15-yard shot attempt wide of the goal. The Indians would have the first eight shots of the match, and collected six corners in the opening 23 minutes.
One of the corners resulted in a 2-0 Catawba lead at 14:06, as the service from Kasey Hahn went to Mayes, whose short pass to Katie Beck was followed by another pass to Dunn at the top of the 6, and her chip found the goal for her 13th of the season.
Patterson continued to be busy for the Pioneers in the first half, stopping a shot from Hahn at the top of the box in the 25th minute and going down to her knees to stop a try from Mayes in the 30th minute. Patterson would add another save in the 34th minute as she cradled a blast from 30 yards by the Indians' Riley Dorman.
Tusculum would get its first shot on goal in the 39th minute on a long try from the left side by Trystan Wepking that was batted away by Davis. The Pioneers would get a free kick from just outside the 18 with five minutes left in the half, but the chip over the wall by Marja Enste continued over the crossbar.
The Pioneers showed some attack early in the second half, as Taylor Youmans had a sharp-angle shot in the 53rd minute that carried wide of the far post and Brianna Garcia went wide from 25 yards a minute later.
However, Catawba would make it 3-0 at 56:41 as Mayes fed Dunn down the right side, and her cross was tapped in by a cutting Summerell for her seventh of the year and second of the day.
Tusculum would have its final shot on goal in the 58th minute as an attempt from distance by Emma Whitaker was stopped by Davis. Patterson came up with a save on a free kick from Beck in the 61st minute, and got help from teammate Bailey Bylotas in the 67th minute as she cleared the line on a header attempt by Beck off a corner kick.
Dunn would finish her own brace at 73:18 as a corner kick from Hahn caromed in the box and was deposited for Dunn's 14th goal of the season. Both teams would substitute freely in the final 10 minutes, with the best chance coming on a header wide of the goal by Tusculum's Wilma Axelsson with just under four minutes left.
Patterson finished with five saves on the afternoon for the Pioneers, who faced 12 Catawba corner kicks while managing just two of their own. Both teams were called for 12 fouls and there were no cautions issued in the match.
Tusculum will continue its SAC schedule on Wednesday, Sept. 28 with a 1 p.m. start at Lincoln Memorial. The Railsplitters are winless and goalless in four conference matches, and have dropped five in a row by shutout to fall to 1-7-0 for the season. Lincoln Memorial fell 1-0 at Newberry on Saturday, and the Railsplitters have been outscored 16-0 during their five-match skid.
