ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Northwest Nazarene women's soccer opened up GNAC play with a 2-0 victory at Central Washington on Thursday afternoon.
 
How It Happened
 
The Nighthawks and Wildcats stayed scoreless for nearly the entire first half, each managing to put a few shots on goal but not converting chances.
 
Just before the half, though, NNU's Carolyn Moravec broke through with a beautiful strike from outside the box that curled over the keeper's outstretched arm and into the top left corner of the net.
 
The second half was almost identical, with neither team finding a goal until the final moments when Ashley Parton took a ball all the way from midfield, raced right around a pair of defenders, and fired a shot past the keeper's right side to make it 2-0.
 
That goal came in the 86^th minute, essentially putting away Central's chance at coming back for at least a draw as the Nighthawks went on to take the 2-0 victory.
 
Nighthawks Notes
 

• NNU earns their third-straight win and improves to 3-1-1 on the year and 1-0-0 in GNAC play
• The Nighthawks outshot the Wildcats 13-9 (6-4 on goal) and had a 5-1 advantage on earning corner kicks
• Moravec's goal was her first of the year and sixth in her career
• Yacine Bitibale had the assist on Moravec's score, the first of her career
• Parton's tally was the 19^th of her career, moving within two of third place in the NNU career record books
• Alexis Montoya made four saves and earned her 19^th career shutout
• NNU has now won three-straight matchups against Central Washington and outscored the Wildcats 8-0 across the contests

 
Next Up
 
The Nighthawks have an untraditional week of GNAC play this week, playing one game on the road and one game at home in a three-day span as they will return to Nampa to host Seattle Pacific on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
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