Game Summary

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — It's one of the longest trips the Saint Mary's University women's soccer team has to take — three-and-a-half hours on a bus to St. Joseph, Minn., home of St. Benedict.

And, thanks to an 8-0 drubbing at the hands of the league-leading Blazers, Saturday's return trip home was that much longer.

St. Benedict, which moved to 7-0-2 in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, scored three times in the first half, then added five more goals in the second half, in handing SMU (2-7-0 MIAC, 3-13-0) its second-straight shutout loss.

Meggie De St. Aubin opened the scoring at 5:19, and Megan Mcvoy added back-to-back goals in a six-minute span 20 minutes later to give the Blazers (11-2-2 overall) a commanding 3-0 halftime advantage.

Things just went from bad to worse for the Cardinals in the second half. Erin Doyle and Kate Aubrecht scored back-to-back goals one minute apart early in the half to push the lead to 5-0. Cassara Skramstad made it 7-0 with a pair of goals, while Meg O'Neill closed out the scoring at the 82:24 mark.

SMU goalkeeper Emily Strom (Waterford, Wis.) finished with 11 saves, while Tae Ruppe posted a two-save shutout for the Blazers.