Gallery: (10-3-2026) 2026 WSOC vs. Lackawanna (Senior Day)
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University women's soccer team fêted its five seniors quite effectively Saturday, as
Ashley Hughes scored four times in a 5-0 victory over Lackawanna on a sunny afternoon at David See Field.
Shippensburg (3-6-2) honored Hughes,
Kirstin Brown,
Mia Kemp,
Haylee Sherman and
Gabrielle Walker in a pre-match ceremony, and carried that excitement into the contest.
Hughes scored early and often, with her first strike coming in the 17th minute. SU fired 12 shots on goal in the opening 45 minutes but carried just a 1-0 lead into the intermission.
Two goals in a 44-second span helped truly turn the tide. Hughes finished an
Andrea Black feed with a close-range rocket to make it 2-0 in the 59th minute. Shortly thereafter, Black sent a ball to
Paige Marek, who made a nifty pivot and struck the ball into the net to make it 3-0.
After scoring twice with her left boot, the naturally right-footed Hughes scored her best of the afternoon with her right in the 83rd minute – cutting to the inside and uncorking a shot from the edge of the box off the inside of the crossbar and across the goal line to complete her hat trick.
Hughes wasn't done, two minutes later she chested down a cross from fellow senior Walker and guided it across the goal line for her fourth of the afternoon, marking the first four goal game from a Raider since Izzy Weigel scored four in the 2019 season finale on November 6, 2019.
Brown,
Mae Leedy and
Hannah Cline each saw time in the SU goal and combined for the clean sheet.
Lackawanna goalkeeper Sophia Arvelo was kept busy by the Shippensburg attack, finishing with 17 saves.
Shippensburg returns to action at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Shepherd.
