KIRKLAND –Northwest finished off its road schedule for the regular season and has a five-game homestand over the next three weekends, starting with Warner Pacific on Friday and Multnomah on Saturday in a pair of 3 p.m. starts.
Northwest is coming off a 3-0 win at Bushnell.
Grace Burke had the game-winner for the Eagles with
Callie Wright and
Claire Jo Diede scoring in the second half.
Liv Lagerquist,
Gracie VanAssche, and Wright had assists in the win.
Kierstin Patefield had three saves for the shutout victory in goal.
Wright and Diede lead the team with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Wright has a team-leading four goals to go with three assists. Diede has three goals and a team-leading four assists. Wright is tied for sixth in the Cascade Collegiate Conference in points.
Kierstin Patefield leads the Eagles with 51 saves and carries a 1.18 goals allowed average. She has a Cascade Collegiate Conference-leading five shutouts this season. She is third all-time at NU with 11 career shutouts.
Northwest owns a 13-3-1 edge in the series with Warner Pacific and a four-game winning streak. NU has outscored the Knights 16-0 over the last four games. NU is 7-0-1 at home in the rivalry.
Sarah (Hommas) Hansen suffered a broken leg in NU's 5-0 win over WPU in Portland last season. The Eagles got goals from
Jennifer Conner,
Colette Liston,
Olivia Morris,
Anna Lau, and Wright. Conner had two assists and Wright and
Maya Lewis had one each. Patefield had two saves for the shutout in goal.
Warner Pacific is 3-6 overall and 2-4 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference after shutting out Multnomah 2-0 last weekend. Maddie Goss leads the Knights with four goals and eight points. Mikayla Dart has a team-leading three assists. Isabel Bauer has three shutouts in goal, has 23 saves, and carries a 1.50 goals allowed average.
It's a young rivalry but the Eagles lead the MU series 2-0. Northwest won in Portland in 2019, 7-0, and scored a 9-0 win at home in 2018.
In NU's 7-0 win against Multnomah in 2019, Wright and
Rylee Rassier both had hat tricks. Hannah Nicholson had three assists and Morris added two.
Multnomah is 1-7 overall and 0-6 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference after its 2-0 loss to Warner Pacific on Friday. Multnomah has one goal this season and no assists. Camilla Meneses has the goal. The Lions are 0-30 in CCC games since establishing the program in 2018.
