Bruins top Midland 7-0 in regular season finale

BELLEVUE, Neb. -- Baylee Tex scored twice and added an assist to lead the Bellevue University women's soccer team as the Bruins bounced back from their second defeat of the season to post a 7-0 victory over Midland University on Wednesday evening at the Renner Dennis Outdoor Athletic Complex.

The Bruins close out the regular season at 11-2-2 overall, while Midland falls to 2-12-1 on the year with two games to play.

Katrina Avila opened the scoring in the 13th minute with her seventh goal of the season, off a failed Midland headed clearance attempt. Avila settled the ball at her feet and delivered a shot back across the goal into the far, upper corner.

The Bruins doubled their advantage in the 24th minute. Aileen Perez won a 50-50 ball in the box, dribbled to the endline, and sent a cross to the back post where Tex was waiting to head home her eighth goal of the year.

Less than two minutes later, Tex struck for her second goal of the game, again connecting on a pass from Perez. Perez carried the ball to the wide area of the box and crossed to Tex near the penalty spot, where Tex toe-poked a shot that banked off the opposite post and into the back of the net.

Layla Vazquez added a fourth goal – her fourth of the season – in the 40th minute. Sam Mausbach delivered a pass to the center of the box, where Vazquez was waiting to ripple a one-timed shot into the back of the net.

Prescillia Casu blasted a 40-yard free kick off the keeper's hands and the underside of the crossbar in the waning seconds as Bellevue took a 5-0 advantage into halftime, having out-shot Midland 15-1 and 9-1 on goal in the opening 45 minutes.

Mausbach tacked on another goal for the Bruins in the opening minutes of the second half. Her 48th-minute strike came off a feed from Izzy Ashby at the edge of the box. She carried it in and beat the keeper in a one-on-one to the far post for her fifth tally of the season.

Adi Kasel capped the scoring with her team-leading 10th goal of the year in the 85th minute. Tex made a move around a defender at the edge of the box. She carried the ball along the far edge of the box before sending a cross to the middle of the goal, where Kasel rose up to head home BU's seventh goal of the evening.

Abril Cura finished with one save for the Bruins while Sienna Phelps (1 save) and Neela Sukhram split the goalkeeping duties in the second half as the trio combined on the team's sixth clean sheet of the season. Midland keeper Skyler Cooley made 12 saves in the loss in her goalkeeping debut.

Bellevue outshot Midland 32-3 on the night, including posting a 19-2 advantage in shots on goal, collecting six corners to none for the Warriors.

The Bruins turn their sights to the upcoming CAC Tournament, which will be held Friday-Tuesday, 7-11, at the Grizzly Soccer Complex on the campus of Georgia Gwinnett College.