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Beam's Hat Trick Propels 49ers To An 8-2 Win At St. Bonaventure
Sept. 28, 2008
St. Bonaventure, NY - St. Bonaventure, NY - Junior Hailey Beam recorded her first career hat trick and freshman Jonna Handra added two more goals as the Charlotte 49ers women's soccer team exploded offensively in an 8-2 road win at Atlantic 10 foe St. Bonaventure. Beam three-goal performance is the 49ers second hat trick of the season and tenth in the program's history. Beam also tallied two assists to go along with her three goals. The 49ers eight-goal performance marked the third straight game and the fourth time this season that Charlotte has scored at least six goals.
"I am excited about the number of goals that we are scoring especially since they are coming in a variety of ways," Charlotte coach Jon Lipsitz said. "It is also exciting that we are having different players scoring multiple goals for us. A lot of times our goals have started with plays from our defense which shows that we have bought into the team concept that it takes all 11 players playing together to be successful."
Beam scored her first goal when she headed in a Whitney Weinraub cross in the 4th minute. Earlier this season, Weinraub recorded a hat trick of her own in the 49ers 8-0 win over Tennessee Tech.
Charlotte's Danielle Mayeaux headed in a Beam corner kick in the 10th minute giving the 49ers a 2-0 lead. Mayeaux's goal marked the second straight game that she has scored on a header off a Beam corner kick.
St. Bonaventure's Dakota Carroll cut Charlotte's lead in half when she scored a goal off assists from Anna Cunningham and Tori Burchett in the 40th minute.
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Handra gave the 49ers a 3-1 halftime lead when she one-touched a scoring shot off a Beam free kick in the 43rd minute.
St. Bonaventure scored their final goal when Kaitlin Krisko scored off a free kick in the 54th minute.
Beam and Weinraub hooked up on another goal when Beam headed in another Weinraub cross in the 68th minute.
Handra recorded her second career multiple goal game when she blasted a shot into the back of the net off an Oni Bernard assist in the 76th minute.
Beam recorded her hat trick when she scored off a Mayeaux assist in the 81st minute. Beam's three goals moved her into a tie with Weinraub for the team-lead with eight goals apiece.
Charlotte's Sam Huecker got into the scoring when she put another Weinraub assist into the back of the net in the 83rd minute. Huecker's goal was her fourth of the season which moved her into a tie for second on the team in goals with Handra and Oni Bernard.
The 49ers' Nikki Labuda Czaplicki made the final score, 8-2, when she scored off a Handra assist in the 87th minute. Czaplick's goal was her third of the season and the 23rd goal of her career..
Charlotte's eight goals came on only 15 shots. Handra led the 49ers with five shots. Beam's three goals came on only three shots. While, Huecker and Mayeaux each tallied two shots apiece in the game.
With the victory, the 49ers improved to 6-3-1 on the season and 2-0 in the Atlantic 10. Since Charlotte joined the Atlantic 10 in 2005, the 49ers are an impressive 25-5-1 against A-10 foes during the regular season.
Charlotte returns home to face Saint Louis in their A-10 home opener, Saturday, October 4 at 7 pm.
