Box Score

IMMACULATA, Pa.- The Immaculata men's soccer team broke out in a big way on Saturday afternoon as they poured in a season-high five goals to top Delaware Valley (2-3) by a score of 5-0 for their first victory of the season.
 
Sophomore Nick Boule scored twice for the Mighty Macs (1-4-1) while junior Alex Noel, sophomore Connor Lindsay, and freshman Alex Potter all found the back of the net once.  Noel became the school's all-time leader in points in a career with 56 on his second half goal.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
-The scoring started early for the Macs as Boule netted his second of the season when he chipped a shot over the keeper's head from the top of the box off the first career assist from freshman Chad Catalana just 1:53 into the game
-The score would hold at 1-0 until Potter showed an outstanding individual effort in running a ball down in the corner in the 28^th minute, making his way to the top of the 18 and ripping a shot to the top left corner of the cage for a 2-0 advantage
-Boule showed some more goal scoring creativity in the 33^rd minute when he took a deflected ball from junior Colin Gallagher and volleyed it into the top of the cage to grow the lead to 3-0
-Lindsay then scored the first goal of his career with just 10 seconds to go before halftime when Gallagher was taken down in the box, and Lindsay took the penalty kick and buried it for a 4-0 lead at the break
-In the second half, Potter was taken down in the box and Noel stepped in and made his 10^th career penalty kick in as many attempts to move into first all-time on the career points list
-Freshman Mikey Kalpokas and sophomore John King combined for the second consecutive clean sheet for the Mighty Macs
 
BY THE NUMBERS
-IU outshot the Aggies, 23-7 and had six corners to just three for Delaware Valley
-Goals: Boule (2), Potter (1), Lindsay (1), Noel (1)
-Assists: Catalana (1), Gallagher (1)
-Boule and Noel led the way with five shots each, while Boule had four of them on goal
-Kalpokas had two saves and King had one
 
WHAT THEY SAID
-Head Coach Joe Clementi: "We have been stringing together better performances recently and we put it all together today to get the win.  Hopefully this momentum continues this next week as we gear up for conference play."
 
UP NEXT
-The Mighty Macs travel to Bryn Athyn on Wednesday night for a non-conference game