The women's soccer team found its first win in a blowout victory Tuesday night with a score of 4-0 against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Having previously lost back-to-back games over the weekend at the Bob Baptista Invitational, the Tigers came out Tuesday night with a vengeance.
Senior Alex Ehr got DePauw on the scoreboard early with the team's first goal of the season in the fourth minute. Ehr scored a second goal in the second half.
Junior Kelly Reeves put the Tigers up 2-0 on a breakaway leading into halftime. Senior Christy Fillenwarth rounded out the scoring for the Tigers in the 60th minute with the team's fourth goal of the night.
"I think it was a victory that our team really needed after coming off of two hard losses last weekend," Fillenwarth said. "This result gave us a lot of confidence to go into two big games this upcoming weekend."
The team has been working with a new formation with more of an attacking mindset.
Fillenwarth said the change has been a great one for the team.
"We started a new formation at the end of last weekend, and I think it will really work for our team and our offense to score some goals," Fillenwarth said.
Head coach John Carter was excited about the results of the game and glad the team had started getting some momentum in the offensive third of the field.
"I'm excited we got the win and scored some goals, but it comes down to where we can go from here and how we can grow," Carter said. "We got better, we scored some goals, and we won the game. At the end of the day it got us to think about our team as a whole."
The Tigers return to play this Saturday against Washington University in St. Louis (3-0) and Sunday against Fontbonne University (1-0) at the Washington University Invitational in St. Louis.