Oct. 8, 2006

Pacific Lutheran Nets Five Goals, Beats Willamette

Derek MacLean - opens PLU scoring

Peter Thomas - two assists in win

Match Statistics

TACOMA, Wash. – Pacific Lutheran scored two goals within a 37-second span early in the first half and went on to defeat the visiting Willamette Bearcats, 5-0, in a Northwest Conference men’s soccer match played Sunday afternoon at the PLU field.

With the victory, the Lutes improve their overall record to 7-4 and their conference mark to 4-2. Willamette falls to 1-10-1 overall and 0-5-1 in the conference.

Willamette put some early pressure on PLU, but it was the Lutes who scored the first goal when defender Derek MacLean used his left foot from close range following Baard Asker’s free kick into the penalty box. The goal was the second of the season for MacLean. The opening goal came 5:44 into the match, and Asker added his seventh goal of the season just 37 seconds later. The Norwegian forward took a pass from Peter Thomas, dribbled horizontally through the penalty box, and then fired a shot back to the left side of the net from about 12 yards out. For

The Lutes added a third goal at 39:33 of the first half when substitute Adam Ladage got his first goal of the season. Andy Hyres sent a pass to Ladage, whose initial effort was blocked, but the ball rolled right back to him and he didn’t miss the rebound shot.

Mike Ferguson got PLU’s final two goals, the first at 46:03 on an assist from Thomas and the second at 57:33 on an assist from Henrik Oiseth. The two goals give Ferguson the team lead with eight.

Andrew Croft played 81 minutes in goal and shared the shutout with Joshua Hooley, who finished the game.

PLU out-shot the visitors, 21-9, though the Bearcats did have several dangerous moments. They nearly got on the board in the first half when Ben Ward’s blast from 30 yards out just missed to the left.

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