By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
LIBERTY, Mo. -- Washburn soccer took to the road for the first time in the 2022 season and came away with a record-tying 7-3 non-conference road win over William Jewell.
Five different Ichabods scored in the game led by two goals each from Jaedyn Johnson and former Washburn Rural All-Stater Belle Kennedy.
Former Washburn Rural star Belle Kennedy scored the first two goals of her college career in Sunday's 7-3 Washburn University soccer win at William Jewell. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Washburn's seven goals tied the program record set two other times, most recently in a 2012 match against Nebraska-Kearney. Washburn also recorded 24 shots in the game, the most in a single game since it took 25 against Missouri Western in 2019. Seventeen of those shots came on goal, the most in a single game since the 2007 season.
William Jewell recorded the first shot of the game before the Ichabods took the next six but were unable to score early on.
Lux Sands
In the 25th minute, the Cardinals got on the board first with a goal into the top right corner of the net from from freshman Lux Sands, a former Topeka High standout who scored her first college goal.
In the 39th minute, Khloe Schuckman got alone on the right side and was able to get a shot just above the goalie's reach to tie the game at one.
Three minutes later Johnson shot a free kick into the goal, deflecting off the goalie and giving Washburn a 2-1 halftime lead.
William Jewell scored less than a minute into the second half on a kick from Clara Fronabarger into the top right corner of the net, but the game was all Washburn after that.
Less than a minute later Jadyn Allen knocked in a goal in a crowd of players following a corner kick to give the Ichabods a 3-2 lead that would continue to grow.
Kennedy, a freshman, scored the first goal of her college career in the 56th minute, followed by the second of the game for Johnson.
In the 68th minute, Shandon Carr scored the first goal of her college career to give Washburn a 6-2 lead.
The Cardinals added a goal from Corrine Hughes in the 76th minute to pull within three, but the goal was matched in the 88th minute by Kennedy who hit a header off a corner kick to complete the scoring at 7-3.
Schuckman, Johnson, Viviana Soto-Herrera, Haley Rogers and Josie Boyle each had one assist in WU's balanced offensive attack where 10 players recorded a shot on goal.
Raegan Wells played all 90 minutes in goal, recording four saves on 17 shots from William Jewell as the lone Washburn player not to sub out.
Cardinals goalkeepers Taylor Thompson and Katie Wagenheim combined to record 10 saves on 24 total shots.
Washburn starts out the year 2-0 for the second consecutive season and defeats the Cardinals for the second time in as many years.
The Ichabods will head north to Sioux Falls, S.D. and face Augustana University Friday, beginning at 5 p.m.
