Philadelphia, Pa. – First-year graduate student forward Goran Naric (Neuwied, Germany/Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium/Hochschule Koblenz) recorded seven points to lead the Le Moyne College men's soccer team to an 8-0 win over Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) on Sunday afternoon at Ravenhill Field.
 
The eight goals are the team's most under 20th-year head coach Tom Bonus and the most since an 11-1 victory at St. Thomas Aquinas College on November 1, 1999.
 
The Dolphins, who defeated the Rams 5-1 at home last year, scored the only goal they would need just over 11 minutes into the game as Naric converted a penalty kick for his first goal as a Dolphin.
 
Naric doubled Le Moyne's lead at the 23:51 mark as he fired a shot under the sliding goalkeeper after taking a pass in the middle of the penalty box from junior midfielder Robert Rohrhirsch (Garching bei München, Germany/Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Garching/Munich University of Applied Sciences).

The Dolphins took a 3-0 lead with just over seven and one-half minutes remaining in the first half. Off a corner kick from the right side by redshirt freshman midfielder Tom Henne (Neuwied, Germany/Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium/Hochschule Koblenz), junior back Patrick Strauss (Lakewood, Ohio/St. Ignatius) sent a shot underneath the crossbar at the 37:25 mark for his second goal of the campaign.
 
Le Moyne exploded for four goals in the opening 12:22 of the second half. First-year graduate student midfielder Julian Schwarz (Elversberg, Germany/KBBZ Neunkirchen/Berufsakademie Saarland) started the outburst at the 49:33 mark by firing a shot into the middle of the net from the center of the penalty box after taking a pass from the right side by Naric.

Just three and one-half minutes later, sophomore midfielder Noah Moothedan (Lutz, Fla./Steinbrenner) netted his first goal of the season after knocking the rebound into the left side of the net after his initial shot blocked.

Only 50 seconds later, Moothedan had a shot saved, but senior midfielder Pablo Fernandez (Aviles, Spain/Real Oviedo) fired the rebound into the back of the net for his first tally of the year.

Naric capped the jaunt at the 57:22 mark by finishing off another pass from Rohrhirsch into the left side of the goal. After the feat had not been accomplished in 13 years, Naric is the third Dolphin (joining fellow natives of Germany Marek Weber and Salar Faryar) in the last three seasons to tally seven points in a game.

Following almost 31 minutes of scoreless action, during which time each team took four shots, including three on target by the Dolphins and two by the Rams, Le Moyne finished off the game's scoring at the 88:09 mark as freshman Joe Kibango (Gloucester, Mass./Bridgton Academy (Maine)) converted a penalty kick.

Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Josh Mahr (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) registered his fifth career shutout after turning away three shots. Kris Donaldson posted five saves in the loss for the Rams. Le Moyne recorded a 22-10 advantage in shots, including 13-5 in the second half, while taking all four of the game's corner kicks.

Le Moyne (2-0), which is 2-0 for the third straight year, returns home to host Caldwell University on Friday at 4:00 p.m.