WALLA WALLA, Wash.  Whitman scored nine unanswered goals in the game's first 15 minutes Sunday, leading to an eventual 16-3 thrashing of visiting Linfield College in Northwest Conference women's lacrosse action at the Whitman Athletic Fields.

For the second day in a row Lindsay Schwartz and Mary Noyes teamed up as the leading scorers for a Whitman (4-3, 3-1 NWC) squad that has pieced together the program's first three-game win streak. Against Linfield (1-4, 0-2) the pair equaled their four-goal apiece outing from Saturday's win.

Beginning with Schwartz' goal 51 seconds into the game, she and Noyes alternated scores to put the Blues up 4-0 in less than five minutes of action.

Maddie Florer joined the fray at the 23:47 mark, scoring her second of the season, with an assist from Anna Melville.

Melville also added an assist on the next two goals -- by Schwartz, then Florer -- as Whitman raced ahead, 7-0.

Sarah Myers notched her third of the year for the eighth tally, and Abbey Dias popped in her third of the season with a free-position shot for the ninth.

Linfield's Mae Seifert finally broke the streak, wiping the goose-egg off the scoreboard with an unassisted goal at 12:28. But three more Whitman goals before recess, and one more at the beginning of the second half grew the bulge to 13-1.

Schwartz and Noyes each added a goal in that second frame, and Keifer Nace picked up her second of the season, off a Florer assist, ending the scoring with five minutes to play.

Whitman's dominance wasn't just on the scoreboard as it allowed the Wildcats just five shots and only one free-position shot. Linfield never got a free ride up field either, as it only completed 8-of-19 clearing attempts.

Many of those failed clears were a result of defensive pressure that forced throw-aways over the sideline, but Florer and Schwartz each registered two caused turnovers as part of the eight accumulated by the team.

The Blues were also relentless with loose balls as they piled up 30 ground balls, to only 13 by Linfield. Schwartz came up with four, Florer added three, and in all 15 different players dug up at least one ground ball.

Goalkeeper Kate Whittingham finished with just one save, but added to the team defense with three ground ball pickups herself.

Whitman embarks on a three-day spring break trip in its next games. Tuesday the Blues take on Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.) in a neutral-site game hosted by Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, California. Wednesday's game pits Whitman against host Pomona-Pitzer, and Thursday sees the Blues traveling 30 miles west to face host Whittier College.