Game Summary

FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Through their first two games, Saint Mary's University women's soccer coach Dan Blank was preached that, as soon as his Cardinals punched in that first goal — look out, the floodgates were going to open.

How right he was.

After failing to score a goal in their first two games this season, the Cardinals erupted for five goals on Friday — three more than they scored all of last year combined – en route to a 5-1 win over Marian.

Kelli Mooney (Maple Grove, Minn.) picked up two of the Cardinals' five goals, while Becky Dougherty (Maple Grove, Minn.), Diane Schirmers (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Mandy Downing (Mendota Heights, Minn.) all posted their first collegiate goals in helping SMU to its first win since a 1-0 decision over Benedictine on Sept. 15, 2002 — a span of 15 games.

Mooney and Schirmers scored four minutes apart midway through the first half as SMU took a 2-0 advantage into the halftime intermission. Mooney and Dougherty then pushed the advantage to 4-0, before Marian's Trista Michels broke the shutout bid of SMU goalkeeper Nicole Bohn (Winona, Minn.). Downing then closed out the scoring with less than eight minutes remaining in regulation.