Box Score ROCHESTER, N.Y. (September 20, 2014) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's soccer team connected on a pair of second half goals to lead them to a 2-0 win over Nazareth on Saturday afternoon.
The win moves the Stevens record over .500 for the first time this season at 4-3-0, while Nazareth dropped to 2-4-0.
The Ducks came out firing with shots from sophomore
Jay Mikula and junior
Colin Phillips in the fifth minute, but sophomore goalie Nate Ripic made the save on one before the second was blocked by Nazareth. Senior
Kevin Calloway followed up with a shot in the sixth minute that was again blocked before reaching the goal.
Stevens was able to get two more shots off in the 10
th and 12
th minutes to keep the pressure on, but both were saved to keep the game scoreless. Ripic made saves on two more Stevens shots from junior
Carson Pryor and junior
Joe Cellitti to send the game into the break tied at zero.
The Ducks defense continued its stellar play allowing only two shots on goal in the half.
The second half brought the same Stevens pressure with back-to-back shots in the 47
th minute from freshman
Patrick Boylan and sophomore
Patrick Masur before the Ducks finally broke through.
In the 75
th minute, Boylan delivered a pass across the box where sophomore
Chris Renna drilled it into the back of the net for his team-leading third goal of the season. The assist was Boylan's first of the year. The Ducks padded their lead in 81
st minute when Cellitti hammered home a goal off a pass from Mikula for his first score of the year.
The goal was enough for sophomore goalie
Mike Renna and the Ducks defense as they held the Golden Flyers to just one shot on goal the rest of the afternoon.
The shutout was Renna's second straight and third of the season. The Ducks will return to Hoboken this Wednesday for a 7 p.m. game against Manhattanville College. Follow the team all season long on stevensducks.com and on Twitter @stevensducks and @stevensmsoccer.
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