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Stanford junior Xanthe Travlos showed why she was named NorPac Player of the Year Thursday, recording a hat trick and the Cardinal field hockey team raced to a 9-0 victory over Appalachian State in the first round of the NorPac Conference championships at Varsity Turf.

Stanford (14-4) matched the program record for single-season victories (also 1997) and will try to set the mark against Longwood on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the semifinals.

Travlos recorded her second hat trick of the season and third of her career as the 15th-ranked Cardinal attempted 46 shots, including a 31-2 margin in the first half.

Appalachian State generated two shots after back-to-back penalty corner attempts in the game's opening minutes and was kept off the shot counter the rest of the way.

Travlos led the charge with nine attempts, while freshman Becky Dru chipped in with eight and sophomore Stephanie Byrne added five.

Katherine Donner added two goals as six different players scored for Stanford.

Dru opened the scoring in the 10th minute, with an assist from junior Camille Gandhi.

After Travlos scored twice in a four-minute span midway through the first half, junior Jaimee Erickson padded the lead to 4-0 with her eighth goal of the year.

Byrne then made it 5-0 at 45:06 and Travlos completed her hat trick 10 minutes later on an unassisted score.

Playing in just her sixth game, freshman Alysha Sekhon fired a rocket from 15 yards out past Mountaineer keeper Denise Adams for her first career goal.

Longwood beat Pacific, 3-1, to advance.

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Stanford's Bradley Klahn and Hilary Barte each won first-round matches at the ITA National Indoor championships in New Haven, CT on Thursday.

Klahn defeated Binghamton's Sven Vloedgraven, 6-2, 6-3, and will meet Wisconsin's Moritz Baumann in Friday's second round match.

Klahn and Ryan Thacher won their first round doubles match, beating Illinois' Marek Czerwinski and Dennis Nevolo, 8-6. Klahn and Thacher meet a team from Auburn Friday morning.

Barte dispatched North Carolina's Sanaz Marand, 6-4, 6-1, and meets seventh-seeded Denise Dy of Washington in the second round.

Barte and Lindsay Burdette advanced in the doubles draw with an 8-6 victory over Marand and Sophie Grabinski. The second-seeded Stanford duo plays a team from Oklahoma on Friday.

— PA Weekly Online Sports