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Martin Fuentes dribbling the ball, flanked by defenders
Jim Stankiewicz
4
Winner Southern N.H. SNHU (10-1-0, 6-0-0)
1
Mercy MERCY (6-2-4, 3-0-2)
Winner
Southern N.H. SNHU
(10-1-0, 6-0-0)
4
Final
1
Mercy MERCY
(6-2-4, 3-0-2)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Southern N.H. SNHU 2 2 4
Mercy MERCY 1 0 1

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

#6 Men's Soccer Handles #20 Mercy, 4-1

Penmen record eighth consecutive victory

When and Where: October 20, 2024 – Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (Mercy Field )
Score:  #6 Southern New Hampshire University 4, Mercy University 1
Records: SNHU 10-1-0, Mercy 6-1-4

Graduate student Martin Fuentes (Pamplona, Spain) had a hand in three goals to lead the sixth-ranked Southern New Hampshire University men's soccer team to a 4-1 triumph over Mercy University on Sunday afternoon at Mercy Field.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
  • Fuentes – goal, 2 assists
  • Junior Iago Perez (A Coruña, Spain) – goal, assist
  • Graduate student Dani Gonzalez (Llanera, Spain) – goal
  • Sophomore Martin Zapata (Pamplona, Spain)
KEY MOMENTS
  • Southern New Hampshire set the tone just 7:46 in when Perez set up Gonzalez.
  • After a Mercy penalty kick goal evened the score late in the 29th minute, Perez tallied his own score off Fuentes' first assist to put the Penmen back in front, 2-1, in the 36th minute.
  • The score stayed that way more than 10 minutes into the second half when Fuentes registered his own goal off a feed from graduate student Chus Ortega (Santander, Spain) in the 56th minute to make it a two-score game.
  • SNHU went up by three less than 10 minutes later on a Zapata goal in which Fuentes collected his second helper of the day.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Senior Preston Neal (Windham, N.H.) made a pair of stops.
  • Mercy 'keeper Eirik Elvestad recorded six saves.
  • SNHU outshot Mercy, 17-9, including 10-3 in shots on target.
  • The Penmen also doubled up the Mavericks in corner kicks, 4-2.
NOTES
  • Southern New Hampshire, ranked sixth in the latest United Soccer Coaches Division II Top 25, have won eight-in-a-row. Mercy, which is 20th in the poll, loses for the second time in three contests.
  • The current eight-match win streak is the longest since SNHU opened the 2018 season with nine consecutive wins.
  • Southern New Hampshire is 3-0-0 this season against nationally-ranked opponents and is outscoring them, 15-3.
  • The Penmen lead the all-time series with Mercy, 8-2-0, and have won eight of the last nine meetings, including two straight. After losing the most recent meeting at Mercy in 2022, this marks SNHU's first win there since Sept. 18, 1988 (4-0).
  • Perez' goal is his team-leading seventh of the season and 16th of his career.
  • Zapata's score is his fifth of the year and Fuentes' is his fourth, while Gonzalez notched his third.
  • SNHU is 141-38-24 (.754) over its last 203 matches dating back to the beginning of the 2013 National Championship season.
UP NEXT
  • The Penmen are back in action Wednesday, Oct. 23 (1 p.m.) versus Wilmington (Del.) University on Senior Day at Ouellette Stadium.
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