Box Score

SEATTLE, Wash. — The Crusaders didn't start strong Saturday, and it hurt.

Seattle Pacific scored four goals in a 3 minute, 56 seconds stretch early in its game against visiting Northwest Nazarene, breaking open the teams' Great Northwest Athletic Conference contest en route to a 6-1 win in women's soccer.

"The first 11 minutes of the game we were unfocused and frantic, and against a top team in the country like Seattle Pacific, that cost us four goals," said NNU head women's soccer coach Mary Trigg.

Laura Moore scored her first of three goals in the contest with just 7:43 gone off the clock before Hannah Huesers scored back-to-back goals, the first 17 seconds later and another at the 10:57 mark.

Moore capped the Falcons quick surge with her second of the game with 11:39 gone, digging a deep hole the Crusaders (3-6-3 overall, 2-5-1 GNAC) couldn't dig out of.

Moore added her third goal in the 25^th minute, giving SPU (6-3-2, 4-2-2) a 5-0 lead, but the Crusaders never gave up.

Ashley Cook-Cox set up teammate Lexi Fesenbek on a breakaway, and Fesenbek scored NNU's lone goal with 7:20 left until halftime.

The Crusaders then outshot the Falcons, 7-6, in the second half.

But it was SPU who found the back of the net in the final 45 minutes as Isabel Farrell scored in the 55^th minute, wrapping up the day's scoring.

"Seattle Pacific is a good team and they finished their chances," Trigg said.

Goalkeeper Daniele Ortiz made five saves in the setback for the Crusaders, who will try and bounce back from the loss next week as they play at Simon Fraser on Thursday and at No. 19 Western Washington on Saturday.