GOLDEN, Colo. – Friday night was one for the books as the Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team returned to Stermole Stadium with a 10-1 win against New Mexico Highlands.
Bella Campos broke the program single-match points record as the Orediggers (10-3-3, 6-2-2) scored in the opening minute and never looked back against the Cowgirls (0-14-1, 0-10-0) thanks to seven goals in the first half and three in the final period as six different players found the back of the net.
It didn't take long for the action to pop off as
Bella Campos scored on a cross in from
Bella Torres on the near side just 41 seconds into the evening.
Natalie Rouse made it 2-0 in the fifth minute when she headed home a corner kick from
Gaby Guerrero for the second time in the last six days. Campos and Torres teamed up again in the ninth minute when the former finished off an endline crosser by the latter that deflected off the fingertips of goalie Haylee Driscoll on the way back as the score moved to 3-0 just 8:30 into the action.
Caelan DeBolt got in on the fun in the 15th minute when Campos played a cross atop the top of the box as the Baylor transfer spun around a defender before shooting and scoring to make it a four-goal contest.
The 19th minute saw Campos back on the attack with her third goal of the night, doing it herself as she wove through the NMHU defense atop the arc before finishing on the back post to make it 5-0. Her fourth goal of the night came just 124 seconds later in the 21st minute, taking a near side throw in from
Finley Ewald before shooting back across for the goal to make it 6-0.
Keira Garcia made her only save of the half on a long-range volley by Juliette Perché before
Molly Elder capped the first half action in the 42nd minute. A crosser in by
Lindsay Jeans on the far side was tapped in on the back post by the freshman to make it 7-0 Mines heading to halftime.
Elder and Jeans teamed up again to re-open the scoring in the second half. A crossed from the near side by Jeans was nearly played in by
Madisen Powers as she just missed a sliding try. Elder came crashing in behind on the back post and flicked it up before heading it over Driscoll to made it 8-0 in the 55th minute. Powers got her chance next in the 67th minute, as an errant ball off a goal kick was scooped up by Jeans who played it up to
Shyla Kalpathy. Kalpathy played one touch off to Powers just inside the arc as she tucked a shot inside the back post to extend the lead to nine.
A defensive miscue by Mines in the 69th minute saw Tammia Thorpe break up the shutout, as
Brekyn Davenport-Murrish came out beyond the top of the penalty area to try and break up the play with no success as the chip shot trickled in on the back post just ahead of a sliding save try by
Kate Hendrickson to make it 9-1. Scoring concluded for the night in the 78th minute. A Cowgirl goal kick was won down by
Haliya Jabel on the far side as she played it up to Kalpathy. Kalpathy tried to find
Ariana Ahumada on the play, but an NMHU played managed to deflect the pass. Jabel, trailing the play, came racing in from the far side to win back possession before taking a quick touch and scoring on the near post to put a bow on a 10-1 victory.
NOTABLES
-Campos scored a career-high four goals with an assist for a career-high nine points in the match; she tied the Mines single-match scoring record held by Kayla Mitchell set exactly 17 years ago today against CSU Pueblo while breaking the single-match points record
-Thursday night was the sixth career hat trick and third in as many weeks for Campos, who once again did it in the first half and needed just 18:10 of action to do so, besting her time of 41:49 last Sunday against Westminster; it is now also the fastest opening half hat trick of all time, beating Jackie Knott's time of 20:03 in the 2016 RMAC Quarterfinals against Western Colorado
-Campos also now owns the second-fastest goal to open a match all-time and fastest regular season goal to open a match at 41 seconds; Reese McDermott owns the overall record with a goal in 35 seconds against UCCS in the 2024 postseason
-Campos also became the second player in program history alongside Mitchell with back-to-back 20 goals seasons, setting a new career-high with goals 19, 20, 21 and 22 Thursday night; she also became the second player to clear 50 points in a season and is now second all-time in single season points with 51 and counting
-Rouse scored for the second consecutive match for her fourth goal of the season and 16 of her Mines career
-DeBolt scored her third goals of the season and fifth of her career
-Elder record the first multi-goal match of her career in just her fifth appearance of the season
-Powers and Jabel each scored for the first time in a Mines uniform
-Jeans made history as she took over the team lead in assists with eight Friday night behind a career-high three assists to became the fifth player all-time with three assists in a single match; she's the first since Ellise Putnam did so on September 29, 2023 against Black Hills State and now pens her name alongside Laura Butler, Jordan Barnhart and Megan Woodworth
-Torres recorded the first multi-assist performance of her career and now has five on the year
-Guerrero added an assist on the Rouse goal for her sixth of the season
-Ewald collected her third assist of the season
-Kalpathy registered her first career point with an assist on the goal by Powers
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Veronica Weston made her collegiate debut, and played 18 minutes off the bench
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Carly Walter played a career-high 55 minutes Friday night
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Keira Garcia and
Brekyn Davenport-Murrish split the night in goal, each recording a save
-25 players appeared in Friday night's match
-12 different players attempted a shot in the match, led by Campos with six followed by Elder and
Ariana Ahumada with five apiece
-The 10 goals scored by Mines Friday was the second match in program history with 10 or more goals scored and finished one shy of the record of 11 set back on September 20, 2019 against Western Colorado
-The six different goal scorers Friday were also the most since that 2019 WCU match when eight different Orediggers scored
-The nine assists by the Orediggers ties the team single-match record set on October 16, 2009 against Nebraska-Kearney
-Mines took a season-high 33 shots and put 23 on target, with Friday night's performance going down tied for the third-most shots on goal in match and first match since 2018 with at least that many attempts
-The nine-goal margin of victory is also tied for the second-largest margin in program history
-Friday night was the seventh match in Division II this season with 10 or more goals scored, and the fifth against an opponent from Division II
-Mines has now won 10 or more matches 19 times in their 22 year history
-With other results around the league Friday night, Mines is now tied for fourth with Black Hills State; the Orediggers have two league matches left while the Yellow Jackets have just one
UP NEXT
The Orediggers play their final road match of the 2026 regular season Sunday at Adams State. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
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