Box Score Colorado College extended several streaks with a 3-0 victory at Southern Miss on Friday afternoon, the most important of which keeps the Tigers atop the Conference USA standings with a perfect 3-0 record.

CC's three-game winning streak to open its C-USA schedule matches the program's best start in six seasons as an affiliate member of the conference set by the 2009 squad that finished second overall during the regular season and advanced to the championship match of the conference tournament.

“We continue to get better and better, and I'm impressed with this group in terms of their resiliency and how hard they've worked,” head coach Geoff Bennett said. “Today was proof of that. We played very well against Southern Miss on their home field. We took a lot of shots, created great chances and scored three really nice goals.”

Kaeli Vandersluis struck for the only goal Colorado College would need just 3:59 into the game, the quickest marker for the Tigers in any game this season.

The freshman midfielder converted on a cross from sophomore midfielder Madison Whitehead, who extended her career-best point streak to four games. Vandersluis became the fifth different Tiger to notch a game-winning goal in 2011.

Freshman midfielder Jessie Ayers found the net for the third time in four games during the 54th minute when she buried the rebound of sophomore forward Lauren Di Gregorio's shot that went off the post.

Then with seven minutes remaining, freshman forward Jaclyn Silsby put the contest out of reach when she scored on a header off a cross from sophomore midfielder Hannah Peterson.

“Digger beat two defenders out wide, hit a great shot that went off the post and went right to Jessie,” Bennett said. “If you look at our scoring output this year, it's been very balanced. Everyone has been chipping in. We don't have just one player who's scored 10 goals.”

Not to be outdone, junior goalkeeper Hanna Berglund and the Colorado College defense recorded their fourth consecutive and fifth overall shutout of the season. The Tigers have now played 382:26 minutes since allowing a goal in the closing minutes of regulation time during the 1-1 tie against Fresno State on Sept. 16.

Berglund had to make just one save while lowering her goals-against average to 1.40 and raising her saves percentage to .719.

Colorado College also is riding a four-game overall winning and five-game unbeaten streak while and improving to 5-1-2 in their last seven games. CC has not lost a game this season (4-0-1) in which it scored the first goal.

The Tigers enjoyed an 18-4 advantage in total shots and a 5-1 margin in corner kicks.

Hannah Vanderboegh made four saves for the Eagles, who slipped to 3-6-3 overall and 0-2-1 in the conference.

“We're going to keep our eye on the ball and worry about the next game,” Bennett said. “We're moving on to UCF and we're going to give them the utmost respect that they deserve being a top-25 team.

“Every time we play UCF it's a really good game. We beat UCF last year, so I think they're going to be coming out with a little vindication on their minds.”

Colorado College wraps up its first conference road trip on Sunday when they visit No. 25 UCF at noon ET.