BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – Grace Nickoloff set career-highs with seven goals and four assists to total 11 points, which ranks third in single-game program history. She helped Notre Dame College win by a score of 26-6 over West Virginia Wesleyan College, on Saturday.
 
NDC's sophomore Carlie Wilson won the first draw of the game. Sophomore Jovie Noack then took a shot that was saved, but the ball rolled back to the Falcons. Freshman Kendall Ratermann sent it over to Noack, who scored on her second shot, to give Notre Dame the early lead.
 
After Wesleyan missed a shot on their offensive end, Notre Dame sprinted back down the field. Noack was involved in another scoring play, as she passed to freshman Gwen Bogash for a goal.
 
Noack also had a career-high four goals in the game on Saturday, along with two assists and a caused turnover. She has scored seven goals over the last two games.
 
Notre Dame continued to add on. Goalkeeper Annika Duncan made a save and sent the ball flying down the field, which led to a third goal by NDC, with 9:51 on the first quarter clock.
 
Junior Cameron Briggs scored Notre Dame's fifth goal on a free position shot and then she caused a W.Va. Wesleyan turnover. Back on the attack, Nickoloff was credited with the assist on Noack's second goal of the quarter.
 
Freshman Tatum Hagen scored back-to-back goals and then junior Joselyn Storm sent one past the Wesleyan goalkeeper before the end of the first, putting NDC on top, 9-1. That was the Falcons' highest scoring quarter of the season.
 
Storm reached full force as the teams entered the second quarter. She took the opening draw control and then converted a pass from Nickoloff into a goal. Her personal 3-0 run continued, when she scored a free position shot to give NDC an 11-1 lead, with 14 minutes remaining in the second quarter.
 
About three minutes later, junior Lexington Carson caused a turnover and Storm sent the ball over to Wilson for her first goal.
 
Storm ended the game with three goals and an assist, along with five draw controls.
 
Over a four-minute span, Notre Dame added three more goals. Wilson scored, again, with an assist from Briggs. Nickoloff scored a goal off a pass from Bogash and then Bogash put one into the net, with a Nickoloff helper.
 
Ratermann and Carson both scored in the final three minutes of the half to put NDC ahead 17-2 by halftime.
 
Out of the locker room, and less than a minutes into the third quarter, Nickoloff scored again. She dominated the third quarter, scoring three of the Falcons' four goals in that stanza.
 
Bogash converted on a free position shot to end the third quarter, and Notre Dame led West Virginia Wesleyan, 21-5.
 
Nickoloff and Noack both scored twice in the fourth. Bogash also scored in the final stanza to run her total up to four goals in the win. She now has scored 12 goals in the past two contests.
 
Both Ratermann and Briggs added two assists. Hagen led the team, and set a career-high with six draw controls. Carson had a season-high five draw controls and freshman Elizabeth Cline won a career-high five draws.
 
Junior Grace London caused three turnovers, while Storm, Bogash and Briggs all had two caused turnovers.
 
As a team, the Falcons set a season-high with 13 assists, seven free position goals, 14 caused turnovers and 25 draw controls.
 
In two conference games this season, NDC has outscored its opponents, 45-12.
 
Notre Dame heads home for a matchup with Frostburg State University, on April 4. First draw is scheduled for 3 p.m.