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Goshen College

Men's Soccer

Ten players find scoresheet in largest win since 2005

Box Score

GOSHEN, Ind. — Stuart Aeschliman and Alejandro Rosales each scored twice as the Goshen College men's soccer team got on the scoreboard in the opening minute and routed Indiana University East 8-0 Saturday night at the John Ingold Athletic Complex.

Rosales opened the scoring after 31 seconds after Sven Badstieber went long up the left sideline on a pass to Flavio Cruz and Cruz hit Rosales with a pass in the penalty area. Uriel Macias made a 30-yard run for Goshen's second goal in the 11th and found Lucas Vilela for a third goal before the game was 20 minutes old.

Aeschliman put both of his strikes into the net before halftime, first on a diagonal pass from Lucas Bontreger with 12:51 remaining and again when he outraced a defender to finish a pass from Matt Granitz with 23 seconds left.

The Maple Leafs (5-3) took 15 shots to IU East's 3 in the opening period; in addition to the five scores, GC hit the woodwork twice and was called offside seven times.

Ethan Francois-Ravalier added a sixth goal from the penalty spot 16 minutes after halftime to match the team's best scoring output of the year. That mark fell with the seventh goal, an Ollie Smith cross from the right byline into the six-yard box, with 12:19 remaining. The eighth goal came 52 seconds later on a very similar play with Rosales taking Bontreger's spot.

The win was Goshen's largest, both by score and margin, since a 10-1 defeat of Rochester College in 2005. The Maple Leafs hadn't put eight goals past an NCAA or NAIA member school since 1992 in a 12-0 victory over Defiance. (Rochester is currently an NAIA school but was not in 2005.)

IU East (3-4) finished the game with 6 shots and no corner kicks compared to Goshen's 37 and 5, respectively. The Red Wolves' lone shot on target was a 62nd-minute free kick that was saved by Tyler Born, who had entered the game 16 seconds earlier in relief of Johan Escalante.

Aaron Gipson made eight saves for the visitors.

Notable Numbers:

6: Goshen hit the post or the crossbar with 6 shots, matching the total number of shots (of any variety) that the team allowed. Ramkissoon was also second on the team with 6 shots, trailing Aeschliman's 10.

10: Ten players were represented among the 15 GC goals and assists. Half of that group – Rosales, Cruz, Macias, Bontreger and Granitz – went to high school within a half-hour of campus, and one of those five players scored or assisted on seven of the eight goals.

1: The Red Wolves' lone shot on goal was the fewest by a Maple Leaf opponent since 2011, when GC allowed 1 to Bluffton and Cornerstone in back-to-back matches. Goshen's 37 shots, conversely, are the most since computerized game-by-game stats began in 2006.

25: The Maple Leafs used a season-high 25 players in their final non-conference home game.

Quotable: To come when available.

Up Next: Goshen at #10 Lindsey Wilson, Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT

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