 While the football team stumbled this weekend, the soccer team continued its perfect season, defeating Winona State 2-1 yesterday. The Beavers sit at 8-0 this season and 5-0 in the conference. It's been a full team effort, their first in goal scored and tied for second in the conference and goals allowed. Head Coach Jim Stone says it's been a perfect storm leading to their hot start. We've had good leadership. I think we had some confidence going into the season where we could be good and I think we've been relatively healthy. I think those three things have enabled us to kind of get a good start to the season. Offensively, they've been led by the duo of Rachel Norton and Allison Smith. Norton leads the NSIC with 8 goals scored and Smith scored three times this weekend to be named NSIC Offensive Player of the Week. I think they were already coming in with a good understanding and a good foundation of knowing what the other person is thinking and it's one of those things where it should only get better and it did and hopefully it continues to. A big credit to my teammates. Every goal I score, every goal the team scores starts from defending and so if we don't have good defending and good build-up and the hard work for my teammates, I don't get goals, I don't get the credit. They're not focused in program history, but they're not too focused on what others are saying about them. Honestly, we don't really focus on it. It's cool to be ranked, but the biggest thing is we gotta look forward to our next game. My next game is the biggest game of the year, so we just gotta take it one game at a time and not to think too far ahead into the future. Beavers will be back at home next week on PBS.