With the way the Columbia women’s soccer team has been playing, winning has almost become a given. The real question is, how early will the Lions score?

Columbia (4-1-0) benefited from early goals in its 2-0 win over Fordham on Friday and its 3-0 win against Stony Brook on Sunday. Freshman forward Beverly Leon scored in the fifth minute against Fordham, while freshman midfielder Chelsea Ryan scored in the 19th against Stony Brook.

The Lions have now scored first-half goals in four consecutive games, all of which have been wins.

“It’s great that we’ve set that trend,” head coach Kevin McCarthy said.

Against Stony Brook, the Lions tallied another first-half goal when senior forward Keri Nobil scored in the 42nd minute. Prior to that matchup, Columbia had not scored two first-half goals in a game this season.

But the Lions did not stop scoring once the first half ended. In each game this weekend, Columbia added to its lead in the second half.

Junior forward Ashlin Yahr scored in the 64th against Fordham, while junior forward Marissa Schultz scored in the 76th against Stony Brook.

“Everyone’s working well together,” Yahr said. “We’ve got a lot of speed up top.”

With five different players finding the back of the net this weekend, Columbia’s depth was clear. Yahr and Nobil now have two goals apiece this season, while Leon and Ryan tallied their first career goals. Schultz’s goal was her first of the year.

“There really is no ‘first 11’ on this team,” McCarthy said. “Having that ethic where everybody expects to go on and contribute and does is incredibly positive.”

As encouraging as it was for Columbia to score multiple goals, the number on the other side of the scoreboard was just as important: zero. For its third and fourth straight games, the Lions’ defense did not allow a goal.

Fordham (3-4-0) took 15 shots and 10 corner kicks, but none of the Rams’ seven shots on goal passed Columbia junior goalkeeper Lillian Klein.

“They just would hit all their restarts into the goal, and Lillian got a touch on every single one of them,” McCarthy said. “She had to come off her line bravely once and did that, and her distribution was fantastic, so it was a complete game for her and a shutout she deserves.”

Klein then made three saves against Stony Brook (0-6-1), which took 12 shots and four corners.

The Lions have not had four consecutive shutout victories since 2006, the year of Columbia’s first and only Ivy League championship.

While Columbia has now matched that streak, the Lions are not ready to end their run.

“This is what we will be doing all season,” senior captain Kelly Hostetler said. “This is the expectation: blank sheets.”