GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Payton DeHart and Taylor Lewis recorded two goals each in leading the Tusculum College women's soccer team to a 5-0 win over visiting Ohio Dominican University Sunday afternoon at Pioneer Field.

The Pioneers (3-2) are riding a three-match winning streak entering Wednesday's South Atlantic Conference opener at Queens University of Charlotte. The league lid-lifter is slated to kick off at 5 p.m.

Dehart notched the first goal of the match in the 35th minute with a steal off a deflection near the front of the goal and beat ODU keeper Kelsey Harris one-on-one.

Tusculum added another goal in the 39th minute when a corner kick went into the penalty area, was deflected by several players and Carlie Thornber hauled in the rebound and chipped it across the goal line for a 2-0 lead.

In the 52nd minute, Lewis received a pass on a counter from Carly Mills and scored in the back left corner for her third goal of the season.

DeHart added her second goal of the contest at the 68:50 mark when she blasted a shot from 15 yards away to the upper corner for a 4-0 lead.

Lewis capped the scoring in the 85th minute with her second scoring tally of the day as she received a long kick by TC keeper Miriah Martin and broke away from the pack and beat the keeper one-on-one.

Martin posted her second shutout of the week while tallying three saves. Harris posted one save of the 11 shots she faced in going the distance.

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