WALLA WALLA, Wash.  Five different players scored for Whitman on a rainy Saturday in its 5-1 Northwest Conference women's soccer victory over visiting Pacific (Ore.) University. The barrage of goals is the most since netting seven in a shutout win that began the 2013 season.

Sophomore Sophie Brussell scored the eventual game-winner -- the first of her career -- for the Blues (2-12-1, 2-8-1 NWC), converting a cross from Sofia Ellington in the 52nd minute to get a second goal past Pacific (0-13-2, 0-10-1) goalkeeper Saya Brown.

Ellington was outside the right edge of the box and lofted a ball toward the back post where Renee van Bergeijk had set up camp. van Bergeijk and a charging Brown met in the air where the ball glanced off van Bergeijk's header attempt to a waiting Brussell one step beyond, where she easily volleyed a shot behind Brown into the left side to lift Whitman to a 2-0 advantage.

A Jessie Mano goal one minute later, from a drop into the box by Olivia Thomson, one minute later made it 3-0, but the Boxers would trim their deficit with a goal from Devon Medina late in the 60th.

Goals from Eliza Van Wetter in the 70th and from Chelsea Day in the 89th provided the wet afternoon's final markers.

If not for Medina's goal during second-half action the game-winner would have come from Jordan O'Roy midway through the first half.

A long cross by Pagan Hetherington deep into the box from the right touch line found its way to the feet of O'Roy who tried a quick flick of the toe to deflect a shot past Brown. The slight touch wasn't enough to get the ball past Brown, but Brown's dive left her on the ground and O'Roy easily stepped over the prone keeper and tapped the ball into the back of the net to open the scoring at the 31:15 mark.

Throughout most of the game the Blues were pressuring Brown and the Boxer defense.

Whitman rang up 20 shots and collected five corner kick opportunities to rule the possession clock.

While Brown was busy directing heavy traffic in front of her own frame, Whitman's Bryanna Schreiber was often an onlooker at the other end of the pitch. Getting her first start in over a month the sophomore netminder made a pair of saves and earned her first career victory between the pipes.

The Blues look to add another victory over the weekend on Sunday when George Fox University visits the Whitman Athletic Fields for a noon-time conference match-up.