Box Score Hartford, Conn. – Junior Bubba Van Wie (New Gloucester. Maine) scored a hat trick to lead the visiting Amherst College Lord Jeffs to a 4-0 win over the Trinity College Bantams in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's soccer action this afternoon. Trinity finishes their season with a 7-5-2 record overall and 3-5-2 NESCAC mark, while Amherst, ranked no. 1 in the nation, stays unbeaten with a 12-0-2 overall record and an 8-0-2 league mark. Trinity fell just short of qualifying for the league playoffs, despite a winning record this season. Amherst heads into the conference tournament as the top seed.
Trinity and Amherst were scoreless throughout most of the first half, until Van Wie buried a shot in the bottom left corner of the net to put the Lord Jeffs on top, 1-0. Trinity kept pace in a back-and-forth game, before receiving a red card in the 60th minute. Amherst went on a scoring spree in the later stages of the second half. Van Wie netted back-to-back goals, in the 67th minute and 69th minute, to complete a hat trick and corrode Trinity's chances at pulling off an upset. Rookie Elliot Cassutt (Minneapolis, Minn.) added a goal in the 79th minute to put the finishing touch on the game.
Trinity senior James Ciano (Syosset, N.Y.) and first-year Dominic Quade (Norwood, Mass.) shared time in net for the Bantams. Ciano finished the game with one save, allowing one goal and Quade made no saves, allowing three goals. Amherst sophomore goalkeeper Thomas Bull (Montgomery, N.J.) needed just one stop to earn the shutout in net for the Lord Jeffs.
Amherst has won their last five matches, and has an unbeaten streak of 34 straight games. Their last loss came in the 2011 NCAA National Championship game.
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