Box Score GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Today the Calvin women's soccer team kicked off their 2025 season at Zuidema Field with a commanding 2-0 win over Wartburg.
 
In the first half, both teams had scoring opportunities early on as they battled for an advantage. In the thirteenth minute, junior Avery Mrozinski (Milford, Mich./Milford) found herself on the receiving end of a cross and redirected the ball toward the bottom right corner of the net. Unfortunately, for the Knights the outstretched Wartburg keeper was able to get a finger on it at the last second and squashed Calvin's scoring opportunity.
 
Wartburg responded with a nice look of their own later in the half when they sent a soaring ball towards the top of the goal. However, senior goalkeeper Kalex Dodge (Leslie, Mich./Leslie) rose to the occasion and tipped the ball away to keep the score even at 0-0.
 
It wasn't until the thirty-eighth minute that Calvin got their next opportunity and this time they took advantage. After a quick cross into the eighteen-yard box senior CeCe McCarthy (Ypsilanti, Mich./Father Gabriel Richard) collected the loose ball and fired it into the back of the net to send Calvin into halftime leading 1-0.
 
In the second half, Calvin gave themselves some breathing room in the seventy-third minute when Katherine Bergman (Farmington Hills, Mich./Farmington) sent a bending corner kick into the six-yard box. The ball bounced into the air where freshman Alexa Boersma (Caledonia, Mich./South Christian) rose above Wartburg defenders and put her head on it and sent it past the keeper to record her first collegiate goal.
 
For the rest of the half Calvin continued to shine defensively as they kept Wartburg's chances to a minimum and picked up the 2-0 win in the season opener. Calvin outshot Wartburg 24-4 with 10 of those shots being on frame. In goal, Dodge finished the game with three saves and a clean sheet.

COACHES COMMENTS: "Happy to get an opening game result!" said head coach Emily Ottenhoff. "It was great to be able to get a lot of people opportunities to compete today! We have a lot of growing to do as a group and look forward to another chance to do that tomorrow."
 
UP NEXT: The Knights will have a quick turnaround as they will be back on the pitch to take on Milwaukee School of Engineering at Zuidema Field at 4PM.