MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa - Webster University kept its perfect record intact in St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play here Tuesday afternoon as the Gorloks used a hat trick from junior forward Melissa Kasper (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) en route to posting an 11-0 victory over Iowa Wesleyan at East Lake Park.

The hat trick was the second of the season for Kasper and the third of the year for the Gorloks as along with Kasper's two hat tricks, senior forward Nicole Bascio (Wentzville, Mo./Timberland) recorded a hat trick in last Thursday 5-0 home win over Spalding. 

With the victory, Webster extends its win streak to eight straight and improves its record to 15-2-1 overall and 8-0-0 in the SLIAC, while Iowa Wesleyan falls to 3-10-0 overall and 1-6-0 in the league. 

The Gorloks, who have already earned a spot in the SLIAC Tournament and will host a first tournament game next Wednesday, have now posted three consecutive shutouts in SLIAC play and have allowed just two goals in eight league matches this season. Both of those goals came as a result of penalty kicks. 

Along with Kasper's three goals, junior midfielder Savannah Page (Sandy, Utah/Sandy) added two goals in the win. In addition to Kasper and Page, six other Gorloks scored a goal against the Tigers.

Bascio extended her goal scoring streak to six straight matches as she got the scoring started in Tuesday match as took a pass from junior midfielder Olivia Osterhage (Eureka, Mo./Eureka) and found the net just 28 seconds into the match. The goal was the 14th of the season for Bascio.

Page scored the first of her two goals in the sixth minute as she took a pass from Osterhage and found the net for her ninth goal of the year. 

About 79 seconds later, senior defender Jillian Zimpfer (St. Charles, Mo./St. Charles) took a pass from Osterhage and found the goal for her third score of the season. The assist for Osterhage was her carrer-high third of the match, which is tied for 11th in a single match in school history.

Page made it 4-0 in the 13th minute as she took a pass from senior midfielder Carolyn Ries (St. Louis, Mo./Lindbergh) to complete for her  third career two goal game. 

Ries got into the scoring column in the 14th minute as used a pass from Page to score her eighth goal of the season. Ries' goal made the score 5-0. 

Webster's next three goals came from Kasper as she tallied her first goal, which was unassisted, at the 20th minute and then scored her second goal in the 30th minute off a rebound from freshman midfielder Hailey Busche (Troy, Ill./Triad) and completed her hat trick in the 39th minute as she took a pass from sophomore forward Joi Wilson (Tracy, Calif./Tracy) and found the goal to give the Gorloks an 8-0 lead. 

Wilson completed the first half scoring with 30 seconds left in the half as she scored a goal off an assist from Kasper to give WU a 9-0 lead at the half. Kasper's assist was her 17th of the season as she is now tied for the team lead in assists with Osterhage.

Freshman forward Jordan Lande (Sachse, Texas/Sachse) gave the Gorloks a 10-0 lead in the 57th minute as she took a pass from Page and tallied her sixth goal of the season. 

Osterhage completed the scoring in the 63rd minute as she took a pass from Lande and found the net for her third goal of the year. 

For the match, Webster outshot IWU, 39-1 as Osterhage led the way with six shots, while Kasper and Lande each had five shots in the win. The Gorloks also finished with 24 shots on goal, including four by Kasper and three each from Osterhage, Lande and Page. 

The Tigers' lone shot came in the 27th minute of the first half as Grace Alongi shot was high. 

Senior Alisa Coralic (St. Louis, Mo./Mehlville) started the match in net and played a little over 29 minutes, before being replaced by junior Abbey Mercer (Granite City, Ill./Granite City), who played the final 40-plus minutes and earned the win as she improved to 3-0-0 on the season. 

Destiny Colon (2-8-0) took the loss in net for the Tigers as along with allowing 11 goals, she also recorded 13 saves. 

The Gorloks will close out the 2018 regular season this coming Saturday, Oct. 27 as they host Fontbonne in a 1 p.m. match at World Wide Technology Soccer Park in Fenton, Mo. Prior to Saturday's match, the Gorloks will honor its four seniors in a prematch ceremony. The Gorloks four seniors this season are Bascio, Coralic, Ries and Zimpfer.