Men's Soccer Suffers 6-0 Loss to WPI in Season Finale

PAXTON, Mass.—The Anna Maria College men's soccer team suffered a 6-0 loss to the Engineers of WPI on Wednesday afternoon in their season finale.

With the loss, Anna Maria wraps up the season at 2-13-1, while WPI improves to 9-3-4.

SENIOR DAY

Prior to tonight's start, the AMCATS honored four seniors playing in their final game: Jonathan Alicea (Feeding Hills, Mass.), Christopher Mattioli (Sturbridge, Mass.), Dalton Gill (Florida, N.Y.) and Diego Torres (South Yarmouth, Mass.).

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Engineers wasted little time getting on the board as they scored their first goal just 35 seconds into the game.

WPI added a second tally in the 16^th minute, and recorded a third goal in the 21^st minute to take a 3-0 lead into halftime. The Engineers held a 16-1 advantage in shots in the first half and a 7-0 lead in corner kicks.

The Engineers added three more goals in the second half. They finished with a 33-5 advantage in shots and a 11-0 edge in corner kicks.

Anna Maria's best chance to score came in the final minute of the game, as Gift Kalombo (Worcester, Mass.) had an open look on net, but his shot was directly at the keeper.

SCORING

Jackson Conroy (Reading, Mass.) netted the first two goals for WPI. The first one was assisted by Brendan Nemes (Kingston, Mass.), while goal two was assisted by Mark Calnan (Winchester, Mass.).

Matt Farrell (Groveland, Mass.) netted the third goal in the 21^st minute on a cross from Calnan for his second assist of the day.

In the 54^th minute, Luke Reiniger (Rowley, Mass.) crossed the ball from the left side to right post to set up Ryan Stokes (Fairpoint, N.Y.) for the score.  

The Engineers took a 5-0 lead on a penalty kick by Chris Fernandez (San Juan, Puerto Rico) in the 64^th minute.

In the 85^th minute Guillaume Poisson (Boucherville, Quebec) crossed the ball in from end line to Charles Sanderson (Hadley, Mass.), who stuffed it in the for Engineers' sixth goal of the game.

GOALKEEPERS

Alicea took the loss in net for Anna Maria with nine saves. Connor Hoeckele (Granby, Conn.) earned the victory with 45 shutout minutes before giving way to Jordan Finzel (Northport, N.Y.) and DJ Newman (DeWitt, N.Y.), who split time in the second half and recorded a save each.