BELLINGHAM, Wash. – The Western Washington University women's soccer team scored a goal in each half to record a 2-0 home victory over Northwest Nazarene Thursday in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play at Harrington Field.

 

The Vikings remain in first place in the GNAC with 23 points building an undefeated 7-0-2 record and won their fifth consecutive game to improve to 8-2-4 on the season. With SPU and Western Oregon playing to a scoreless tie, the Vikings are now four points clear of the second-place Falcons in the table.

 

The game was a stalemate the for the first 40 minutes with very little action in front of the goal. Coming in as a reserve in the 30th minute, sophomore defender Jane Hmura took a chance from 30-yards out, surprising the goalkeeper with an accurate shot into the upper quadrant of the goal.

 

The Vikings struck again 22 minutes into the second half off a free kick from junior defender Emily Rice near the left sideline. Rice lifted the ball into the box with senior defender Halle Noel heading the ball into the back of the net near the top of the six-yard box for her second career goal (67th career game).

 

Senior goalkeeper Abigail Trengove made a pair of saves and WWU's backline combined for the seventh shutout of the season.

 

WWU held a 7-3 advantage in shots, 5-2 in shots on goal and 7-2 in corner kicks. 

 

NNU dropped to 3-10-0 overall and 3-6-0 in GNAC play. 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Vikings (8-2-4, 7-0-2 GNAC) wraps up the regular-season home schedule on Saturday with a 2 pm Senior Day game vs. Central Washington . The complete 2024 schedule can be viewed online via wwuvikings.com/24_WSOC.

 

Western Washington 2, Northwest Nazarene 0

Date: October 24, 2024

Field: Harrington Field     Site: Bellingham, WA

Attendance: 118

 

Goals by period                 1  2    Tot

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Northwest Nazarene............  0  0  -  0

Western Washington............  1  1  -  2

 

SCORING SUMMARY:

1.      43:35      WWU       Hmura

2.      67:13      WWU       Noel (Rice)

 

Shots: WWU 7, NNU 3

Shots on Goal: WWU 5, NNU 2

Saves: WWU 2 (Trengove – 2), NNU 3 (Blancett - 3)

Corners: WWU 7, NNU 2

Fouls: WWU 7, NNU 7

Offsides: WWU 2, NNU 0

Kits: WWU (Navy), NNU (White)

Updated Records: WWU (8-2-4, 7-0-2), NNU (3-10-0, 3-6-0)

 

The Vikings will celebrate the eight-player senior class prior to Saturday's regular-season home finale with Abigail Trengove, Sophie Bearden Croft, Halle Noel, Ashley Nguyen, Grace Wales, Myka Carr, Kyrsten McGuffey and Lydia Myers recognized during a pregame ceremony.
 

Here is a look at Western's record breakdown for the 2024 season:

 

 

Here is an updated look at the GNAC standings and weekly schedule following Thursday's games to open the fifth week of conference play. Updated conference standings, schedules, results and statistics can be found online at GNACsports.com.

 

 

WWU swept the season series over NNU with matching 2-0 scorelines, also winning 2-0 on the road on October 12 in Nampa…Vikings lead the all-time series 43-2-3 dating back to the first meeting in 1997 and has a current 8-game unbeaten streak vs. NNU (6-0-2) since 2021…WWU is now 24-0-1 all-time vs. NNU in home games with a perfect 10-0-0 mark at Harrington Field (since 2014).

 

Here is a look at the Vikings 2024 regular-season schedule. The GNAC Championships will be held November 14-16 at Interbay Stadium in Seattle, and the NCAA Division II Championships open with the first and second rounds November 21-24:

 

 

Since Harrington Field debuted on the south edge of the WWU campus in 2014, the Vikings are 91-7-9 (.893) playing in front of the home crowd (4-1-3 in 2024, 7-1-1 in 2023, 9-1-1 in 2022). The Vikings are 13-2-0 at Harrington Field in postseason play, hosting NCAA games in 2014 (0-1-0), 2015 (3-0-0), 2016 (1-0-0), 2017 (1-0-0), 2019 (2-0-0), 2021 (1-0-0) and 2022 (3-0-0), and GNAC Championships games in 2016 (1-0-0) and 2021 (1-1-0). Including the men's program, WWU Soccer has a combined record of 141-32-24 (.777) at Harrington Field.

 

Fans can follow WWU women's soccer online at WWUVikings.com/WSOC, and via social media on Twitter/X (@WWU_WSoccer), Instagram (@wwu_wsoccer) and Facebook (@WWUsoccerwomens). 

 

The Western Washington University women's soccer program has risen to the top of the Division II ranks, appearing in the NCAA Championships in 10 of the last 11 seasons and winning a pair of national championships in 2016 and 2022. WWU has advanced to the NCAA II Final Four in five of the last 10 seasons and played for the West Region championship in nine of the last 11 seasons (seven consecutive from 2015-22). The Vikings won the 2022 NCAA Division II National Championship with a 2-1 win over No. 1 nationally-ranked West Chester, played for the 2019 national title and won the NCAA Division II National Championship in 2016 with an undefeated 24-0-1 record, beating three-time defending national champion Grand Valley State 3-2 in the title game in Kansas City, Missouri. The program has claimed eight of the last 12 Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular-season titles (2022 Champions) and won five of the last eight GNAC Tournament titles (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022). Head coach Travis Connell is in his 22nd season leading the program in 2024 (29th overall at WWU) and has led the Vikings to 12 trips to the NCAA Championships and 19 consecutive winning seasons.