Emma Sears scored a hat trick as the US closed out the October window with a one-sided 6-0 win over New Zealand on Wednesday in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
U.S. coach Emma Hayes as soon as once more rotated her beginning XI as she did in a pair of friendlies towards Portugal previous to the sport with New Zealand.
All three of Sears’ targets got here from shut vary, one within the first half and two within the second, because the U.S. dominated FIFA’s Thirty third-ranked staff on the earth.
Catarina Macario and Rose Lavelle scored with pinpoint first-time pictures to spherical out the scoring within the first half because the U.S. took a 3-0 lead into halftime. Lavelle’s purpose — the perfect of the bunch for the U.S. on Wednesday — got here when she pounced on a free ball and netted from a curling, long-range volley from 20 yards out.
The U.S. continued to maintain the strain on New Zealand within the second half with Sears including her second and Macario netting shortly after for her brace with a robust shot from the correct aspect of the world.
Sears completed off her stellar evening with one other close-range end, smashing a free ball into the roof of the New Zealand internet for the primary hat trick by a U.S. girl since Sophia Wilson in April of 2022 towards Uzbekistan.
Regardless of its success on Wednesday, the U.S. misplaced one in every of its three video games in the course of the October slate of pleasant matches, falling 2-1 to Portugal on Oct. 23. Hayes’ aspect bounced again to beat Portugal within the groups’ second assembly three days later with a 3-1 victory.
The U.S. closes out its 2025 match calendar with friendlies towards Italy on Nov. 28 after which once more on Dec. 1.