CHENEY, Wash. - The Eastern Washington University women's soccer team welcomed the College of Idaho to Roos Field today (Feb. 28) for its first home match of the 2021 spring season and defeated them 5-0 in Cheney, Wash. The Eagles took an early lead that would create the momentum for the rest of the match and seal COI's fate.

"We were much sharper in front of goal today. We had a lot of opportunities to score goals and we've been struggling with that. A clean sheet, and at the end of the day we got a win," said head coach Chad Bodnar. "A lot of players got in that haven't gotten to play much this season - and to get off the schneid in terms of scoring goals was a good thing. We changed our shape back to the way we used to play and we're a lot more dangerous when we do that."

An early goal from Brittany Delridge in the third minute gave the Eagles the lead as the assist came from a through-ball delivered by McKaley Goffard.

Eight minutes later, freshman Grace Terrill tried to get the two-goal advantage with a shot to the bottom center but it was picked up by the Yotes goalkeeper Shae Waters. However, Terrill was not finished as she would find the back of the net on the next attempt as she shot the ball and scored in the 11^th minute from an assist by Taylor Matheny.

The Eagles were relentless on the attack firing off three shots back-to-back from a trio of Eagles in Maddie Morgan, Matheny and Sariah Keister, in which two sailed over the crossbar and one rolled to the goalkeepers hands.

The Eagles shot the ball three more times before finding the back of the net for their third goal in the 38^th minute. The masterpiece came from the vision of Brooke Flores to find Riley Walkington who danced her way through traffic and buried the ball in the right corner, giving Eastern a three-goal advantage before halftime.

At the start of the second half, Madison Kem would find some space to let off a shot but Waters was there to deflect the ball away. Waters failed to clear the ball from her 18-yard box as it fell to the feet of McKaley Goffard who did not hesitate in slotting it in the back of the net. After just two minutes from the start of the second half, the Eagles took a 4-0 lead.

Flores collected the fifth goal in the 75^th minute, denying any hope for a comeback for the Yotes.

The Eagles stood their ground in the closing minutes of the game and walked away with a 5-0 shutout over the College of Idaho.

WIN-LOSS RECORDS: EWU picks up its first victory of the season and improves to 1-2 overall while the College of Idaho moves to 1-2-1.

TOP PERFORMANCES: McKaley Goffard and Brooke Flores both scored one goal and gave out one assist. 

Grace Terrill, Brittany Delridge and Riley Walkington also scored a goal for Eastern while Taylor Matheny took four shots and had one assist.

BODNAR BITES: Head coach Chad Bodnar ties the all-time winningest record as he collects his 69^th victory at the helm and holds an all-time record of 69-42-13 (.609) after six complete seasons and three matches this season. He's chasing former head coach George Hageage (2000-13) who has an all-time record of 69-157-20 (.321) after 14 full seasons.

Bodnar's rise to the top looks promising as he has led his Eagles to at least 11 wins in four out of his six seasons as head coach, including an impressive 16-win season in 2017.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE: Eastern Washington outshot the College of Idaho 24-2, landing 14 on target.

The Eagles forced the Yotes to make nine saves versus EWU's two, and Eastern also had six corner kicks and did not concede a corner kick to COI.

UP NEXT: Eastern Washington opens Big Sky Conference play hosting Portland State on March 12 at 12 p.m. Pacific time at the EWU Soccer Field in Cheney, Wash.