Eugene, Ore. | It didn't take long for the Warner Pacific University Men's Soccer team (8-2, 5-1) to jump back to the top of the conference standings, as the Knights took down the Bushnell University Beacons (1-8, 1-5) in dominating fashion this afternoon by securing the 6-0 shutout.
Coming off their first conference loss of the season yesterday, the Knights offense showed up big in today's win by outshooting the Beacons 43-4, nineteen of which were deemed shots on goal. Warner Pacific also secured 17 corner kicks in today's match, while only allowing two to the Beacons.
The first to score this afternoon was Knights' senior forward
Brennan Murphy, who scored on a dime of a cross from fellow senior forward
Arturo Bahena, splitting the defenders to find Murphy sprinting in front of Beacons' goalkeeper Julian Hernandez for the quick misdirection tap. Senior defender
Juan Gudino was also credited with an assist on the play.
15 seconds later, Murphy returned the assisting favor to Bahena off a misplay by the Beacons defensive line, resulting in Arturo's 11
th goal of the season, which still leads the conference in the category.
Despite the first half coming to an end, the Knights would not be done scoring for the evening, as junior forward
Sunjoon Tenorio would find the back of the net unassisted on a deflection from Hernandez that led to the quick tap in. Murphy would also go on to score his second goal of the game on an assist from senior midfielder
Matias Castano as well.
Two Knights would later score their first goals of the season, starting with junior midfielder
Noe Silva's beautiful shot off the bottom of the crossbar and into the back of the net. Gudino would capitalize on his first goal of the season with less than three minutes left in the game, where he snuck one past a diving Hernandez to seal the goal scoring at six for the afternoon.
Warner Pacific will return "home" to play cross-town and conference rival Multnomah University at the Eastside Timbers Sports Complex, where the Lions will play host at 11am PST.