Clarks Summit, Pa. –
Matthew Sim (Tomball, Texas/Tomball Memorial) and
Abreham Kittel (Trumansburg, N.Y./Charles O. Dickerson) scored two goals apiece to lead Keystone College to a 6-1 victory at Clarks Summit University in Colonial States Athletic Conference men's soccer action on Tuesday afternoon. The Giants improve to 7-3-1 overall with their fifth straight win and continue the program's best start to CSAC play with a 4-0 mark in league contests.
Keystone, who now has its longest winning streak in more than a decade, matched its highest offensive output in a CSAC game with the Giants last recording six goals in a 6-0 win at Philadelphia Biblical College (now Cairn University) on October 2, 2010.
Sim opened the scoring 13
th minute on Tuesday taking a feed from
Kouassi Kouadio (Mount Pocono, Pa./Pocono Mountain East) and one-timing a shot to the far post. The sophomore gave Keystone a 2-0 advantage just 1:54 later by flicking home a header on a ball curled into the penalty area by
Haris Sabovic (Brodheadsville, Pa./Pleasant Valley) for his third goal of the year.
Clarks Summit got on the board in the 22
nd minute when Ian Self scored directly off of a corner kick, but the Giants restored its two-goal cushion just 49 seconds later. Sim started the play by serving a cross from the right flank that bounced off a Defenders' player to
Ibrahim Tounkara (Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth Area), who drilled home a shot from close range for his fourth goal of the season.
After carrying the 3-1 lead into halftime, Keystone pulled away with three goals in the final 17 minutes of the contest.
Angel Perez (Miami, Fla./Dr. Michael M. Krop) headed in his third goal of the year in the 74
th minute to finish off a cross from Kittel, who then made it a 5-1 game in the contest after taking a thru-ball from Tounkara after Perez forced a turnover by the Defenders.
Kittel closed out the scoring with another unassisted goal, his fourth marker of the fall, with just 56 second left on the clock.
Malcom Moreira (Hillside, N.J./St. Benedict Prep) made two saves in the first 85 minutes of the contest to pick up the win while
Gino Santarelli (Moosic, Pa./Triboro Christian Academy) was not forced to make a save in the final five minutes in his first appearance of the season.
Ben Campbell suffered the loss despite making four saves for Clarks Summit, who fell to 4-9 overall and 0-4 in the CSAC with the loss.
Keystone held a 16-5 advantage in shots for the game along with a 12-3 lead in shots on goal. The Giants also claimed a 3-2 edge in corner kicks on the afternoon.
Keystone will host Rosemont College in another import CSAC tilt on Saturday evening starting at 5:30 p.m. The game will be a "Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer Awareness" game with donations being accepted to benefit the Go4TheGoal Foundation which helps children with cancer achieve their goals.