No. 6 Irish Take Down Oakland In Dominant 8-0 Win – Notre Dame Fighting Irish – Official Athletics Web site

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The No.6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish superior to 4-0-1 on the season as they defeated the Oakland Golden Grizzlies (1-4-1) in a 8-0 victory on Sunday night. 

The Irish had seven gamers within the scoring column tonight, however senior Laney Matriano led the best way with a brace, recording a career-high two targets within the dominant win. 

Junior Morgan Roy and sophomore Grace Restovich recorded their first targets of the season, The sophomore duo of Annabelle Chukwu and Izzy Engle chipped in a single objective a chunk for his or her second and sixth targets on the season, respectively. 

It was an evening of career-firsts and career-highs for Notre Dame. Freshman Tessa Knapp and sophomore Randie Foor every recorded their first profession targets, with junior Jackie Hollomon grabbing her first save in objective. 

Sophomore Lily Joseph tied her career-high two assists and Senior Kiki Turner recorded her first profession help. 

HOW IT HAPPENED 

Matriano put the Irish on the board, netting the primary two targets of the sport within the first 20 minutes of play. The midfielder scored first on a nook kick from Roy, the place Matriano shot and performed the rebound on the save to search out the again of the web within the fifteenth minute.  

Just six minutes later, Restovich got here down the left wing and crossed the ball to Matriano on the high of the field, sending it into the higher 90 off her proper boot. 

Roy adopted together with her first objective of the season, taking over her defender by dribbling to the best aspect of the field and firing within the far left backside nook within the twenty third minute. The Irish led 3-0 on the finish of the primary half earlier than scoring a powerful 5 targets within the last 45 minutes. 

Restovich kicked off the scoring run within the second half as she was in a position to sneak it previous an Oakland defender after taking part in it off the save from a Roy shot. 

Engle couldn’t let a recreation go by with out getting in on the scoring motion. Joseph discovered Engle on the high of the field and after working round her defender, Engle buried her effort into the underside left nook to increase the Irish result in 5-0 within the seventy fifth minute. 

Knapp joined the scoring frenzy simply three minutes later as she put away a gorgeous ball from the left wing proper into the highest of the web, simply above the goalie’s head. 

Leading 7-0, Foor discovered Chukwu on a cross and after two touches from 18 yards out, she discovered the again of the web within the backside proper nook. Foor capped off the win together with her first profession objective on a go from Turner within the 87th minute.

UP NEXT 

The Irish are on the highway after a three-game homestand as they head to East Lansing to tackle the Michigan State Spartans on Thursday, Sept. 4.