Behind a pair of hat tricks from seniors Jamie Goldfarb and Maggie Farra, the Case Western Reserve University women's soccer team opened the 2025 season with a 7-0 win over Franciscan University of Steubenville on Friday night at DiSanto Field in Cleveland.

The Spartans improved to 1-0-0 on the campaign while the Barons fell to 0-1-0.

Goldfarb and Farra are the first pair of teammates in CWRU to have a hat trick in the same game. It was the first multi-goal game of Goldfarb's career and the second for Farra after she scored twice against Asbury on October 21, 2022, in an 11-0 win. First-year Emily Callanen scored the seventh Case Western Reserve goal, the first of her career. Four Spartans added assists in the game. Sophomore Ellie Palaian earned her first career start, win, and shutout in front of the net for CWRU.

First Half

• Goldfarb opened the scoring, giving the team a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute. She collected a saved shot from senior Molly Shamah and finished into an empty net. Shamah was credited with her first of two assists in the game on the play
• Goldfarb scored her second of the evening in the 26th minute, gaining possession at the top of the box, sprinting toward the goal, and finishing with her left foot in the top corner of the goal
• Just 47 seconds later, Farra put the Spartans ahead 3-0 with her first goal of the game. She received a pass from senior Alexis Sassower about 25 yards away from the goal, took one step, and fired a shot just in front of the post
• Goldfarb completed the hat trick in the first half, scoring in the 42nd minute on a cross from first-year Izzy Probst
  
• Callanen gave the team a 5-0 advantage heading into the break with a goal in the 44th minute, gaining possession in the box, spinning, and shooting the ball past the diving goalkeeper

Second Half

• Farra scored in the 49th minute, receiving a cross from Shamah in the nine-yard box and finishing in the bottom corner
• She finished her hat trick, and completed the Spartan scoring, in the 56th minute. Senior Ceci Dapino lobbed a pass from midfield to Farra, who was running down the middle of the pitch. She won the race to the ball and beat the goalkeeper in a one-on-one showdown, making the score 7-0
• Franciscan had their first shot in the game in the 70th minute. An attempt by Ryan Walters was saved by Palaian which resulted in a corner and another unsuccessful shot attempt by the Barons

Spartan Notes

• CWRU won its sixth consecutive season-opening game and 13th in the last 14 years. The Spartans are 28-11-2 all-time in the first game of the season
• Case Western Reserve extended its regular season non-conference unbeaten streak to 53 matches, going 49-0-4 in those contests. It has been 2,530 days since the team lost in the regular season to a non-conference foe
• The Spartans improved to 2-0-0 all-time against the Barons, winning the other matchup between the two schools during the spring 2021 season
• Senior Emma Struck, junior Angelee Rodriguez, and first-years Callanen, Mia Modrovich, and Izzy Probst all made their Spartan debuts in the game. Modrovich started her first career contest and played all 90 minutes
• The last CWRU hat trick came on September 23, 2021, when former Spartan Anika Washburn scored three goals against John Carroll. The two other three-goal games came from Megan Browdie (2003 vs. Penn St. Behrend) and Elle Zadina (2017 vs. Oberlin)
• The seven goals are tied for fourth most in a game in program history, the most ever in a game to open the season, and are the most since the 11-0 win over Asbury in 2022. CWRU finished with 36 shots, the eighth most in program history, and 18 shots on goal
• 21 Spartans appeared in the contest with only Modrovich and Palaian playing the entire 90 minutes

Next Up

CWRU hosts Allegheny College on Sunday at 1 p.m. at DiSanto Field