Box Score FOREST GROVE, Ore. – Registering its highest single-game goal total in nearly two years, The Evergreen State College improved its season record to 2-1 on Thursday night with a 5-3 non-conference women's soccer win over the host Pacific Boxers at Hanson Stadium.

Not since a 6-0 victory over Trinity Lutheran on Sept. 18, 2014, has an Evergreen women's team scored at least five goals in a match. In this one, four different Geoducks found the back of the net with the fifth tally coming on a Pacific own goal.

Evergreen broke a scoreless deadlock 34:55 into the game on Haleigh Ryneski's second goal of the campaign. The junior midfielder took a pass from Ellie Engel and scored from about 24 yards out. The Geoducks got the second goal less than two minutes before the half, at 43:44 to be exact, when a Pacific back pass went into the back of the net.

After a pretty evenly played first half – both teams recorded four shots in the opening 45 minutes – the host Boxers finally broke through with two goals in three minutes. Both tallies came from Holly Chang-Northway, the first from 22 yards out at 62:50 and the second from close range at 65:34, the assist going to Mikayla Tucker.

The Geoducks came up with a big response less than three minutes later when junior midfielder Kylie Gorton, a transfer from Walla Walla Community College, scored the go-ahead goal with a 25-yard strike at the 77:20 mark. Evergreen then made the score 4-2 when freshman forward Alli Crain got her first Geoducks tally, heading home a corner kick by Delaney Rice at 80:08.

Chang-Northway pulled a goal back for Pacific with a penalty kick at 83:23, but Rice, a freshman midfielder, put the game away at 85:57 with a shot from 23 yards out.

Final shots favored Pacific, 14-10, though corner kicks went the way of the Geoducks by a 6-3 margin.

Senior goalkeeper Kayla Baskett recorded four saves and her teammates cleared another Pacific shot off the line. Boxers keeper Kailey Hifumi ended the match with four saves.

The Geoducks play a pair of scrimmages next week before opening Cascade Collegiate Conference action on Sept. 16 when they host Eastern Oregon.