In a battle of unbeatens, the Denison women's soccer team shut out Baldwin Wallace, 2-0, on Sunday afternoon at Barclay-Thomsen Field in Granville, Ohio. With the win, the Big Red is off to their best start since 2006 when they won seven straight to open the season.

Denison applied offensive pressure from the first whistle to the last against the Yellow Jackets. In the opening 8+ minutes of action, DU unloaded five shots toward the Baldwin Wallace goal. In the 16th minute, sophomore Allison Vilsack ripped a shot from the top of the box that was punched over the crossbar by goalie Emily Tallmadge. On the ensuing corner kick, junior Jessica Skelly buried a header off a ball that was knocked into the air by the BW keeper. Skelly's second goal of the season came at 16:23.

The Yellow Jackets nearly came away with an equalizer in the 39th minute when a Rachel Bender pass set up a 1-v-1 between Katie Kill and Big Red goalkeeper Jenny Herold. With Kill closing the distance between herself and the goal, Vilsack got back into the play and broke up the opportunity by blocking Kill's shot out of bounds.

Denison's last chance of the first half came in the 44th minute when Andrea Witte sent a free kick into the box that Meg Wozniak redirected off the post. The Big Red added to its lead in the 60th minute when Maggie Armstrong sent a cross to Jacquie Graham who chipped a shot over the keeper and into the upper right 90.

DU outshot Baldwin Wallace 25-7, including an 11-2 advantage in shots on net. The Big Red also attempted nine corners to the Jackets two.

Wozniak finished with a game-high five shots, while Graham and Anne Denz each logged four attempts. Herold made two stops en route to her fourth-consecutive shutout. The Denison defense has now gone 386:33 without surrendering a goal to an opponent.

Seven different players recorded a shot for the Jackets, while Bender and Anna Poptic logged the two attempts on frame. Tallmadge made nine stops in 90 minutes between the pipes.

DU improves to 5-0, while Baldwin Wallace falls to 3-1-2. The Big Red begins a stretch of three-straight road games on Wednesday when they travel to Ada, Ohio to take on Ohio Northern University. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.