ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE MEN'S SOCCER
Saturday, September 30, 2006

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Elizabethtown Defeats Lebanon Valley 4-0

ELIZABETHTOWN , Pa. --- Elizabethtown College improved to 6-2-2 overall and 2-0-1 in the Commonwealth Conference Saturday afternoon with a 4-0 home win over Lebanon Valley College. Lebanon Valley dropped to 3-7 overall with the loss and 0-3 in the conference. The win brings Elizabethtown head coach Arthur D. “Skip” Roderick to within four victories of reaching the 400 career win plateau.

Elizabethtown scored its first goal 39:21 into the game when Brian Raveling (Voorhees, NJ/Eastern Regional) was fouled in the box to set up a penalty kick by Brennan Reichenbach (Selinsgrove, PA/Selinsgrove Area), who subsequently scored. The score remained 1-0 at halftime.

At 58:27, Elizabethtown went ahead 2-0 as Josh Hoffman (Schaefferstown, PA/ELCO) scored his first goal of the season off a cross pass by Rick Winstanley (Manchester, England/St. Gabriel’s). Etown went up 3-0 at 74:22 as Matt Diller (Chambersburg, PA/Mercersburg Academy) scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season off an Owen Freidrich (Westmont, NJ/Haddon Township) cross pass in front of the net. Elizabethtown scored again just 35 seconds later as a Diller pass down the middle of the field hit Mike McCabe (Milford, PA/Delaware Valley), who scored his first goal of the season on a fast break.

Elizabethtown out-shot Lebanon Valley 16-11 over the course of the game. Blue Jay goaltenders A.J. Fleisher (Kutztown, PA/Kutztown Area) and Jeff Mullen (Horsham, PA/Hatboro-Horsham) combined on the shutout, with Fleisher playing the first 74:57 and making three saves, and with Mullen playing the final 15:03 and making two saves.

Etown will return to action on the road Wednesday, October 4 in a non-conference game at Muhlenberg College at 7:00 p.m.

at Elizabethtown, Pa.
Elizabethtown 4, Lebanon Valley 0
Goals by period 1 2 Tot
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Lebanon Valley Coll. 0 0 - 0
Elizabethtown Coll.. 1 3 - 4

SCORING SUMMARY:
1. 39:21 ETOWN Reichenbach, Brennan (2) (Raveling, Brian)
2. 58:27 ETOWN Hoffman, Josh (1) (Winstanley, Rick)
3. 74:22 ETOWN Diller, Matt (4) (Friedrich, Owen)
4. 74:57 ETOWN McCabe, Mike (1) (Diller, Matt)

Shots: Lebanon Valley Coll. 11, Elizabethtown Coll. 16
Saves: Lebanon Valley Coll. 5 (Tim Mehl 5), Elizabethtown Coll. 5 (Fleisher, A.J. 3; Mullen, Jeff 2)

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