PARKLAND - The visiting Pacific Boxers got goals from three different players in defeating the Pacific Lutheran Lutes, 3-1, in a Northwest Conference women's soccer match played Saturday afternoon at the PLU soccer field.

Pacific won for the third time against two conference losses and is now 3-5-1 for the season, while PLU fell to 1-8-0 overall and 1-5-0 with their fifth straight conference defeat.

Tianna Homad gave the Boxers a 1-0 lead 20 minutes into the match, heading just enough of Kaitlyn Harper's cross to beat a pair of PLU defenders and Lutes keeper Lauren Chambard.

The score stayed that way until 51:34 when Ashley Kanda, one of the shortest players on the field, headed Teri Shigeno's cross past PLU substitute keeper Ivory Harvey. Jenny Novak made it 3-0 at 58:52, running onto a bouncing ball 15 yards out from goal and striking a one-touch bullet to the upper right corner, leaving Harvey no chance.

Pacific Lutheran got one back less than 90 seconds later when Brittney Bronson headed home Kristina Snaring's cross from the right wing. It was Bronson's first goal of the season, but it turned out to be the Lutes' only one in the match.

PLU had an 11-9 advantage in shots, but the Boxers put seven of their efforts on target while the Lutes had only two on goal. PLU midfielder Mimi Granlund rattled the crossbar with a first half drive that denied the Lutes what would have been a 1-0 lead.

Chambard and Harvey both had two saves for PLU while the Pacific defense cleared a ball that resulted in the Boxers' only save. Pacific enjoyed a 9-1 corner kick advantage.

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