By typical standards, Hope Leyba’s recent goal-scoring drought was nothing dramatic. By Leyba’s standards, it seemed like an eternity.

Leyba put an emphatic end to that drought.

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Colorado’s junior forward recorded a hat trick for the second time this season, leading the CU women’s soccer team to a 3-1 victory against Iowa State in a Big 12 Conference matchup on Thursday night at Prentup Field.

Leyba scored goals in each of the first five games of the season and scored multiple goals in the final three games of that run, but she had gone four straight matches without a goal before putting together a dominant performance against the Cyclones.

It was the ninth hat trick in program history. Leyba joined Nikki Marshall as the only CU players to post a pair of hat tricks, an

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