Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College men's soccer team clinched a share of the Northeast-10 Conference regular season title for the first time in the program's history with a 5-1 victory over Bentley University on Friday afternoon at Ted Grant Field.
 
The Dolphins (13-2-1, 10-2-1 NE10), who tied Adelphi for first place in the NE10 standings and claimed the top seed by virtue of Tuesday's 4-3 win over the Panthers, begin pursuit of their third NE10 Championship on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at Ted Grant Field against eighth-seeded American International College, which earned the final berth by tying Adelphi tonight. The Dolphins defeated the Yellow Jackets, 6-0, at home on September 19 in the regular season meeting.
 
Le Moyne took advantage of a Bentley miscue to open the game's scoring in the eighth minute. Off an errant backwards pass, second-year graduate student forward Marek Weber (Fulda, Germany/Sportgymnasium Jena/Goethe-University Frankfurt) beat the goalkeeper to the ball and chipped it into the open net at the 7:10 mark for his 16th goal of the season.

The Dolphins doubled their lead in the 18th minute. Second-year graduate student back Niklas Breunung (Fulda, Germany/Freiherr-vom-Stein Schule Fulda/Fulda University of Applied Sciences) sent a pass from midfield to the top of the penalty box, where sophomore midfielder Robert Rohrhirsch (Garching bei München, Germany/Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Garching/Munich University of Applied Sciences) blasted a shot off the bottom of the crossbar and down into the net at the 17:36 mark for his fifth goal in three contests.

Le Moyne extended its lead to 3-0 in the 28th minute. After collecting the ball on the left side of the top of the penalty box, junior forward Salar Faryar (Frankfurt, Germany/Max-Eyth Schule) rocketed a shot into the right side of the net at the 27:02 mark for his career high-tying 14th tally of the campaign. The goal marked the 35th of his career, which is tied for the fifth-most in the program's history.

The Dolphins completed the scoring in the first half with just 11 seconds left in the stanza. Freshman midfielder Dan Chilbert (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) sent a pass from the center of the field towards the right corner. Faryar got to the ball and crossed it in front of the net, where Weber was able to knock it into the right side from five yards out at the 44:49 mark for his 17th goal of the year, the second-most in the NE10. The goal marked the 35th of Weber's two-year Dolphin career, which is tied with Faryar and two others for the fifth-most in the program's history. The assist gives Faryar 81 career points, the seventh-most in the program's history, while the goal gives Weber 78 points, the eighth-most in the program's history. On the program's single-season chart, Weber's 40 points are tied with Gold Wave Hall of Fame member and current assistant coach Francesco Riverso '02 for the fourth-most by a Dolphin in a season, while Faryar's 35 points are the eighth-most.

Bentley got on the scoreboard in the 75th minute. Off a corner kick by Diego Lombardi from the right side, Jake Acker headed the ball into the goal box. Peter Clifford got a foot on the flying ball and scored from three yards out at the 74:50 mark for his first goal of the season.

The Dolphins answered back just 66 seconds later with the game's final goal. Off a feed from freshman forward Noah Moothedan (Lutz, Fla./Steinbrenner), sophomore midfielder Joe Falcone (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius), who returned from an eight-game absence, fired a shot into the lower right corner of the net from 15 yards out on the left side of the penalty box at the 75:56 mark for his third goal of the year. The goal snapped a stretch of 23 straight goals (over eight unbeaten games) scored by the team's four healthy natives of Germany (Weber-11, Faryar-5, Rohrhirsch-5, Breunung-2).

Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Josh Mahr (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) stopped the only shot he faced in 70:28 between the pipes to earn his 11th victory of the season, the second-most by a first-year goalkeeper in the program's history. David Price turned away a pair of shots in the loss. Le Moyne recorded a 10-3 advantage in shots, including 8-0 in the first half, while each team posted two corner kicks.