Box Score Liz Phipps (Bloomington, Ill.) netted her first career hat trick and Ashley Meyer (Evanston, Ill.) added a pair of goals herself as the Dominican University women’s soccer team improved to 1-0-0 in the Northern Athletics Conference with a 5-1 win over the Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors.

Phipps got the offensive outburst started with her first goal of the season in the 11^th minute and then quickly gave the Stars a 2-nil advantage as she tallied her second score of the game just two minutes later.

The scoring slowed down until the 41^st minute when Meyer got in on the act, netting her third goal of the season to give the Stars a 3-0 advantage at the half.

Dominican kept up the pressure early in the second half with Meyer tallying her second score of the match in the 55^th minute followed by Phipps’ final goal of the game in the 59^th.

Emily Seidler closed out the scoring, cutting the Warriors’ deficit to 5-1 in the 72^nd minute.

Dominican dominated possession and the stat sheet, rattling off 24 shots, 13 on goal, to just three shots for the Warriors.

With the win, Dominican now stands at 2-3-0 on the season, riding a two-match win streak heading into a Saturday meeting with the Edgewood College Eagles in Madison, Wis.  The match is slated for an 11:00 a.m. kickoff on the the Eagles’ Breese Stevens Field.