MANKATO, Minn. -- Jayla Ponce (SR, Kuna, Idaho/Kuna HS) claimed her second career hat trick with a three-goal effort, leading the Augsburg University women's soccer team in a 6-0 nonconference victory at Bethany Lutheran College on Tuesday evening.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg 6, Bethany Lutheran 0
LOCATION: Scheels Field, Mankato, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 2-1-0 overall, Bethany Lutheran 0-3-0 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg dominated the game from start to finish, outshooting the Vikings by a 31-7 margin, including 19 shots on-goal to Bethany Lutheran's two. Augsburg had an 18-3 advantage in corner kicks, and held the ball by a 65-to-35-percent advantage.
• Ponce recorded her second collegiate corner kick and her fifth career multi-goal game, scoring the first two goals of the game, and adding her final goal as part of an Auggie four-goal flourish in the final 12 minutes of play. Her first goal came in the 24th minute, as she scored following a blocked shot by Annika Rudolph (SR, Richfield, Minn./Richfield HS), working the ball past several defenders and putting the ball in the net. Her second goal came in the 49th minute, as she scored on a sprint following a long ball pass from Rudolph.
• Augsburg finished the game with four goals in a seven-minute span late in the contest. Denise Hamdan (SO, Maplewood, Minn./North St. Paul HS), a transfer from Hamline, scored her first goal as an Auggie off a corner kick by McKenna Nachreiner (SO, Waunakee, Wis./Waunakee HS) in the 79th minute. Three minutes later, Amalia Lee (FY, Shakopee, Minn./Shakopee HS) scored her first collegiate goal, taking a pass in the box by Hamdan following a long pass by Grace Dickerson (JR, Northfield, Minn./Northfield HS).
• Ponce scored on a sprint following a long pass over the defense by Danielle Wagner (JR, Shakopee, Minn./Shakopee HS) in the 84th minute, and two minutes later, Megan Hensel (SR, Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury HS) scored her second goal off the season, following up a rebound of her initial shot with a strike that deflected off a defender and went into the net.
• Sixteen different Auggies saw action in the game, all playing 20 minutes or more.
• Making her first collegiate start in goal, Claire Smothers (FY, Iowa City, Iowa/Iowa City HS) had two saves to record the shutout victory.

FOR THE FOES
• Arayah Baker had 11 saves in goal for Bethany Lutheran.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to take on Wisconsin-Platteville on Friday (9/13) at 7 p.m. in Platteville, Wis.