WICHITA, Kan. – Despite missing one of the top goal scorers in the NAIA in Liz Lozano, the Mid-America Christian women's soccer team got a pair of dominant performances out of Kyleigh Gibson with four goals and Paola Camacho with a goal and four assists as Evangels came away with a 12-0 victory over Manhattan Christian (Kan.) at the Stryker Sports Complex on Saturday.

 
SCORING SUMMARY

• 1^st Half
  • MACU – 11:24 – Goal: Kyleigh Gibson (2) – MACU 1, MCC 0
  • MACU – 27:39 – Goal: Kyleigh Gibson (3), Assist: Veroncia Lopez Cordero – MACU 2, MCC 0
  • MACU – 33:53 – Goal: Kyleigh Gibson (4), Assist: Marga Franco – MACU 3, MCC 0
• 2^nd Half
  • MACU – 47:31: Goal: Kyleigh Gibson (5), Assists: Kelsey Henry, Paola Camacho – MACU 4, MCC 0
  • MACU – 56:57 – Goal: Brooklyn Fink (1), Assist: Paola Camacho – MACU 5, MCC 0
  • MACU – 59:26 – Goal: Paola Camacho (2), Assist: Joanne Nakirya – MACU 6, MCC 0
  • MACU – 59:48 – Goal: Joanne Nakirya (5), Assists: Paola Camacho, Joanna Behrens – MACU 7, MCC 0
  • MACU – 62:10 – Goal: Joanne Nakirya (6), Assist: Paola Camacho – MACU 8, MCC 0
  • MACU – 65:50 – Goal: Marga Franco (1), Assist: Sylvie Willie – MACU 9, MCC 0
  • MACU – 70:18 – Goal: Veronica Lopez Cordero (4) – MACU 10, MCC 0
  • MACU – 72:55 – Goal: Makayla Lein (1) – MACU 11, MCC 0
  • MACU – 84:04 – Goal: Veronica Lopez Cordero (5), Assist: Jayce Fallon – MACU 12, MCC 0

 
MATCH SUMMARY

• Kyleigh Gibson got the scoring started in the 12^th minute after a cross pass deflected off a Manhattan Christian defender, putting the open 7-yarder from the middle of the 18-yard box to bring the score to 1-nil.
• Gibson added two more later in the half. With 17:11 on the clock, Gibson and Veronica Lopez Cordero had a give-and-go on the right side of the goal box as the Moore, Oklahoma native slipped a shot in just inside the right post. Gibson completed the hat trick in the 34^th minute when Marga Franco found her breaking into the middle of the goal box on a run-out, sliding another shot into the right side of the goal to make it 3-0 at the half.
• Less than three minutes into the second half, Gibson pushed across her fourth goal of the match on some strong passing from Kelsey Henry and Paola Camacho.
• The Evangels netted five goals in a 10-minute stretch from the 57^th minute to the 66^th minute, two of which coming off the foot of Joanne Nakirya with Brooklyn Fink, Camacho and Franco notching goals as well to bring the score to 9-nil.
• Veronica Lopez Cordero got in on the scoring with a pair of goals in the 71^st and 85^th minutes while Makayla Lein in her first action of the season scored a goal on a penalty kick with 17:05 remaining in the game.

 
MATCH NOTABLES

• Mid-America Christian set multiple NAIA era (2008-present) record marks in the match. While the 12 goals tied the third-most in any match in program history, the Evangels scored them off of 11 total assists, which set a new program record. The 36 total points and 54 shots were each good enough for third in the books while the 28 on-goal shots rank as the fourth-best mark.
• The Evangels did not allow Manhattan Christian to take a single shot in the entire match.
• Kyleigh Gibson became the fourth Evangels player to score at least four goals in a match, setting a new career high. She joins Liz Lozano, who accomplished the feat twice this season with five goals Texas A&M-Texarkana and four at Bacone as well as Joanne Nakirya who finished with four against the Warriors as well.
• Paola Camacho became just the second Evangels player in the NAIA era to record at least four assists in a single match. The Anzoategui, Venezuela product finished only behind MACU All-Decade player Chelsea Swisher, who tallied five back on Sept. 14, 2013 against Southwestern (Kan.).
• Nakirya and Veronica Lopez Cordero each recorded their second multi-goal matches of the 2020-21 season with two goals apiece.

 
NEXT UP

• Two of the top scoring teams in the NAIA will go head-to-head on Friday, Oct. 24 as the Evangels will host Science & Arts for a 1 p.m. kickoff at Evangel Field.