Box Score

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – After a one-year absence, the Battle of the Boot trophy is back in the hands of the Susquehanna men's soccer team as the Crusaders defeated Lycoming 4-0 on Wednesday night.

SU (3-0) avenged an overtime loss to Lycoming one year ago and the teams have now split the last four Battle of the Boot meetings. With the win, Susquehanna improves to 3-0 on the season.

Four different players accounted for the four Susquehanna goals as SU out-shot Lycoming (1-1) by a dominating 27-2 mark. Nearly half of those Crusader shots were on goal and they connected on their first three shots of the night.

Goalie Matt Salsman (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) was forced into action just once all night as the Warriors took just one shot in each half and only one was on goal.

It took the Crusaders just seven minutes to get on the board with a goal from Joe DeLuca (Freehold, N.J./St. John Vianney) that handed SU the early 1-0 lead. Just nine minutes later David Trank (Mendham, N.J./West Morris Mendham) made it a 2-0 Susquehanna advantage off an assist from John Arnold (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg), who was taking one of SU's eight corner kicks of the half.

Daniel Sosa (Columbia, Pa./York Catholic) padded that lead with a goal not even three minutes after Trank's score and that 3-0 lead stood as the teams headed into halftime.

It remained 3-0 until, with just over 18 minutes to play in the game, Ian Greene (Laguna Beach, Calif./Laguna Beach) added an insurance goal for the 4-0 Susquehanna advantage.
 
The SU defense prevented Lycoming from putting together any serious scoring threat to clinch the shutout victory.

The Crusaders take to the road for the first time this season on Sept. 8-9 with two games at the York Tournament.