After beginning the season with a four game winnings streak, Waynesburg University’s women’s soccer team has yet to win a game.

Over the past four games, the team has lost two and tied the others. Most recently, the women’s soccer team traveled to Baldwin Wallace this past Saturday to take on another Yellow Jacket squad in their final non-conference matchup of the 2018 season.

The Yellow Jackets would end up losing with the final score of 4-0 to Baldwin Wallace.

After being shut out, head coach Laura Heethuis believed the team’s struggles stemmed from a lack of patience and miscommunication on offense.

“I thought we got caught into the direct style of play a little bit, that if we would have been a little more patience and able to connect some passes we could have had a little bit more possession,” said Heethuis. “I think we have to get tougher and expect to be put into physical games and situations.”

According to Heethuis, the team handled itself fairly well in the game, but she felt that they were outmuscled by Baldwin Wallace as a whole.

Baldwin Wallace started the scoring five minutes into the game on a goal by senior forward Rachel Bender— the first of two for her on the day —  and never gave up the lead. They would score once more in the first half on Bender’s second goal of the day and then add two more goals in the second half— both by junior midfielder Clair Cuthbertson— with her first coming in the 86th minute and the second two minutes later.

Baldwin Wallace continued to play aggressively on both sides of the ball, attempting seven shots compared to just one by Waynesburg. The Yellow Jackets were unable to penetrate the Baldwin Wallace backline for most of the first half.

Waynesburg was out shot 32-6 overall and 21-2 in the shots on goal category, but Baldwin Wallace had more fouls with 20 compared to Waynesburg’s 11.

Despite giving up four goals, junior goalkeeper Courtney Syfert made 17 saves for Waynesburg during a busy afternoon in the net. So far this season, Syfert has a 84 percent save percentage in the net for the Yellow Jackets.

Despite the loss, Heethuis doesn’t think that her team will be discouraged as they prepare to begin Presidents’ Athletic Conference play.

“I would expect them to remain hungry, we got a week to prepare for Saint Vincent,” Heethuis said. “It’s our first conference game, it will be our fundraiser game and we will be home after playing four straights on the road, so it will be nice to be back at home.”

Heethuis also said that the team is eager to begin conference play after an encouraging non-conference season, as the Jackets finished the out-of-conference portion of their schedule 4-2-2.

Waynesburg returns home for its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference game against the Saint Vincent Bearcats on Sept. 29. This game is also alumni day and Night of Nets for the Yellow Jackets. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.