GUNNISON, Colo. – A hat trick performance by
Bella Campos fueled a 3-1 win by the Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team against Western Colorado Sunday at Kate O. Rady Field. After ceding the opening goal of the afternoon to the Mountaineers (4-6-1, 2-4-1), the Orediggers (8-2-3, 4-1-2) responded with three unanswered, all off the foot of Campos as she reclaimed the RMAC lead in scoring this fall.
Western Colorado scored first thanks to Jordan Welsh's long-range volley after Western Colorado managed to break out of their own end against fierce pressure by the Orediggers thanks to PJ Plumb. Mines didn't take long to tie things back up, as
Bella Campos scored for the fourth match in a row. After winning a loose ball, Campos played it back to
Caelan DeBolt who passed forward to
Bella Torres. Torres then tapped it back to Campos who beat a Mountaineer defender to be ball before firing past a second defender and keeper Ashlyn Fitzpatrick to the back post to make it 1-1.
Campos struck again in the 42nd minute, putting Mines in front heading to halftime. After a throw in by WCU deep in their own end,
Gaby Guerrero stole the ball and raced ahead before splitting three defenders to find Campos. The senior one-timed a shot from 10 yards out to the back post to flip take the lead 2-1 heading to the break.
Campos continued her banner day in the 68th minute, scoring her third goal of the afternoon with a near post finish off an endline crosser from
Allyson Townsend to make it a 3-1 contest. Campos set up the sequence by winning down a long ball from
Sam Forde, before dishing it wide to Torres to set up Townsend for the long run down to sideline and the eventual cross and score.
Western Colorado had limited chances in the match, but two of them came in succession in the 74th minute when Lauren Kindt first banged a shot off the crossbar before
Keira Garcia made a save against Natsuki Murakami. Neither side put a shot on goal over the final 15 minutes as the Orediggers defense played it out to secure the 3-1 win.
NOTABLES
-Campos' goals were her 13th, 14th and 15th of the season and fifth, sixth and seventh in the last four matches; she now has two four-match scoring streaks in 2026, is up to 65 career goals becomes the second player in program history with more than 150 career points alongside Kayla Mitchell (2006-09)
-Sunday's was hat trick was the fourth of Campos' career, as she's recorded one in each season of her career at Mines; she's also now scored at least 14 times in each year of her career and now owns four of the top 10 scoring seasons by an individual in program history
-Torres was credited with the assist on the first Campos goal, the third of her freshman season
-Guerrero was credited with the assist on the second Campos goal, her fourth of the season
-Townsend was credited with the assist on the third Campos goal, her first of the season and the first of her career
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Finley Ewald made her first career start Sunday and played 47 minutes
-Garcia made on save in goal
-Mines outshot WCU 19-10 overall and 9-2 in shots on goal
-10 of Western Colorado's 11 starters played the full 90 minutes, with their lone sub coming in the 81st minute
-With the results around the league Sunday, the Orediggers remain in sixth in the RMAC standings with 14 points
UP NEXT
Mines is back on the road for two more matches next weekend with trips west to Colorado Mesa and Westminster.
Fans can keep up with Mines women's soccer on X and Instagram at @mineswsoc. They can also keep up with Colorado School of Mines Athletics all year long on Facebook, X and Instagram using the handle @MinesAthletics.
