Box Score Saturday marked the second time in as many days the UW-Whitewater men's soccer team shutout their opponent en route to victory at the Advantage Emblem Cup hosted by the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota.  This time the victim was Concordia-Moorehead and the final score was 4-0.  The Warhawks are 2-0-0 in the young 2012 season while the match was the first of the year for the Cobbers.

The match was relatively uneventful until the tenth minute when Alex Szarzynski (Greenfield/South Milwaukee) found Sam Kuchenreuther (Brown Deer, Wis./Brown Deer) in the box for his first goal of the season.

Concordia-Moorehead was looking for the equalizer in the 24th minute, but a header by the Cobbers' Kristian Reiersgord sailed wide left.

The Warhawks took a 2-0 lead in the 27th minute when Austin Saari (River Falls/River Falls) found the back of the net off of a pass from Bob Shone (St. Charles, IL/St. Charles East).  Shone scored the lone goal in UW-W's victory over the College of St. Scholastica on Friday.

UW-W carried the two goal advantage into halftime and opened up the second half with a relentless attack.  Four shots in the first seventeen minutes of the second half resulted in no goals but kept the pressure on the Cobbers.  Fourteen minutes later Sam Novak (Milton, Wis./Milton) drove a ball into the box that found Ty McCoy (Batavia, Ill./Batavia)'s head to give UW-W a 3-0 lead.

A foul on Concordia-Moorehead in the 82nd minute resulted in a penalty kick for UW-W.  Jonathon Fischer (Hartland/Arrowhead) was elected to take the kick and slid one past the keeper for the fourth and final goal of the game.

Matt Mikesell (Waukesha/Kettle Moraine) and Josh Rohde (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha West) combined for the shutout but the Warhawk defense should get partial credit as neither was not forced to make a single save in the game.  The Warhawks outshot C-M 11-2 in the match.

With the 4-0 win the Warhawks earned ten points toward their total in the Advantage Cup standings.  The ten, coupled with yesterday's eight, puts them in first with 18 points.  The final standings will not be determined until Sunday.

The Warhawks' next game is their home opener on September 8 at Fiskum Field against the University of Dubuque.  The game is slated for a 3:00 pm start and it is youth day.



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