STANFORD, Calif. – Makenzie Fischer and Ryann Neushul each scored four times, six other players added two goals and No. 1 Stanford closed out its regular season with a 22-4 win over No. 20 San Jose State on Saturday afternoon.
The Cardinal's four seniors – Madison Berggren, Kat Klass, Cassidy Wiley and Mackenzie Wiley – were honored in a pregame ceremony for their spectacular careers. The group has led Stanford to an 85-14 record since 2016, including a national championship in 2017.
Their regular-season home finale was never in doubt. Stanford (19-1, 6-0), already up 9-3 midway through the second quarter, reeled off 12 consecutive goals following a Matilda Moore 6-on-5 score for San Jose State (10-13, 2-4) with 3:31 to go in the first half. The Spartans wouldn't score for the next 17 minutes as Stanford closed out its first perfect MPSF regular season since 2015.
Chloe Harbilas, Neushul and Aria Fischer scored on Stanford's first three possessions before Moore got SJSU on the board at 4:33 in the first. Berggren won the sprint before Harbilas' goal and the next two were the direct result of Cardinal steals.
Berggren pushed it to 4-1 before Hannah Shabb scored on the power play, one of Stanford's six 6-on-5 tallies of the day. Makenzie Fischer rattled the cage twice on consecutive possessions late in the first to put Stanford up 7-1 after one.
Berggren at even strength and Mackenzie Wiley on another power play got Stanford going in the second before Moore's aforementioned strike and the ensuing Stanford onslaught.
Sarah Klass (2:21), Neushul (1:10) and Makenzie Fischer closed out the half with goals to make it 12-3 at intermission. Fischer scored hers off a feed from Aria Fischer with one second on the clock to clinch her sixth consecutive hat trick and 15th of the year.
Kat Klass hit on a penalty (7:32) and Neushul (5:46) tacked on another coming out of the break. Shabb (5:02) an Aria Fischer (4:05) were next before Mackenzie Wiley drew an exclusion on Michelle Taikeff that set up Makenzie Fischer for a goal on the resulting power play.
That score was Fischer's fourth of the day and 76th of the season, moving the junior past Melissa Seidemann and into second on Stanford's single-season list. Ellen Estes holds the record with 93 goals in 1998.
Neushul scored again on the power play with 40 seconds to go in the third, her fourth to set a single-game career best.
Thea Walsh played all four quarters in the cage and made eight saves.
Stanford is the No. 1 seed in next weekend's MPSF Championship, which it will host Friday through Sunday. The Cardinal has a bye into the semifinals and will play the winner of No. 4 California and No. 5 San Jose State on Saturday, April 27 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale by visiting gostanford.com/tickets.
No. 1 Stanford vs. No. 20 San Jose State
April 20, 2019 • Stanford, Calif.
SJSU 1 – 2 – 0 – 1 = 4
STAN 7 – 5 – 7 – 3 = 22
San Jose State Goals: Matilda Moore 2, Natalie Hosmer 1, Olga Descalzi Portell 1
San Jose State Saves: Hannah Henry 5, Anna Maria Luther 1
Stanford Goals: Makenzie Fischer 4, Ryann Neushul 4, Madison Berggren 2, Aria Fischer 2, Chloe Harbilas 2, Sarah Klass 2, Hannah Shabb 2, Mackenzie Wiley 2, Lauren Indart 1, Kat Klass 1
Stanford Saves: Thea Walsh 8
