The William & Mary field hockey used a highly efficient attack on Saturday to overpower Pacific on the road, 5-0.  With the win, its fourth-straight, the Tribe improved to 7-4 on the year, while the Tigers fell to 8-6 overall.

How it Happened
- W&M took control of the match early, scoring twice in the space of a minute to jump out in front and put pressure on Pacific.
- Seven minutes in exactly, the first goal went in.  Freshman Jorja Morgan (Wakerley, QLD, Australia) passed through the defense to find Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) in-stride and able to finish underneath goalkeeper Marlise van Tonder for the eventual game-winner, her third of the season.
- Just 45 seconds later, Hooper again found the boards, this time taking a pass from freshman Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) at the near post and spinning her shot past van Tonder and into the far side of the goal.
- That's where the score stayed for the rest of the half, as both teams totaled four shots and Pacific held a 2-1 advantage in penalty corners.
- Play in the second half continued to flow evenly, with freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) making a pair of saves to preserve the shutout before W&M was able to take advantage of a player-up situation to begin drawing penalty corners late.
- In the 54th minute, junior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) took a pass out of a penalty corner from redshirt-senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia), and ripped a shot from high in the circle right past van Tonder to make the score 3-0.
- Three minutes later, van de Kamp scored again out of another corner, set up this time by classmate Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) and with the same result to chase van Tonder from the game.
- The exclamation point was provided in the waning moments of the 68th minute by sophomore Melanie Strik (Den Haag, The Netherlands), who scored her first goal of the season to put W&M on top 5-0.  Hughes drove the ball along the baseline and passed through three defenders to find Strik in front of goalkeeper Jessie Niccum.  She only needed one step to open space, and fired back into the net past Niccum for the score.

Starters
W&M - Kimi Jones, Jenny McCann, Melanie Strik, Annie Snead, Ashleigh Nottingham, Christie van de Kamp, Estelle Hughes, Cara Menges, Woodard Hooper, Cassidy Goodwin, Haley Hopkins
Pacific - Marlise van Tonder, Tayler Silacci, Rylee Comeau, Gaby de Kock, Lindsie Rogers, Kriekie van Wyk, Gabriella Fondario, Justine van Lathem, Nthabi Maine, Taylor Dempsey, Karlijn Roijakkers

Notes
Junior Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) checked in to replace Jones over the final 10 minutes and was not tested in goal ... Jones made two saves, improving to 22 saves on a .786 percentage ... W&M won its third-straight game by shutout, the longest such streak since the 2006 season ... The Tribe has only had 15 total streaks of three or more shutouts since 1973 ... Snead's assist was her CAA-leading seventh of the year ... Hooper has now scored six goals in the last three games ... van de Kamp now has a career-high five goals on the year ... Hughes' two assists are tied for 10th-most all-time in a single game, and keep her in the CAA-lead with 21 points on the year ... Hooper and Hughes are tied for the team lead with eight goals each, and tied for second in the conference ... Hooper also leads the CAA with three game-winning goals ... Hooper's eight career game-winners are tied for sixth-most all-time, and the most since Kelly Giles '06 had nine from 2002-05 ... Morgan scored her first career assist.

Up Next
William & Mary stays in California for the weekend, and will travel to No. 21 Stanford on Monday, Oct. 15.  Game-time against the Cardinal is set for 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern.