Box Score St. Davids, Pa. – The Manhattanville men's soccer team fell on the road to the Eastern Eagles by the score of 5-0 in Freedom Conference play on Saturday afternoon in St. Davids, Pa.
 
The Eagles jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead just over two minutes into the contest when Mitch Osterhouse netted one past freshman goalkeeper Steve Singson (Deer Park, N.Y./St. Anthony's). Eastern picked up their second unassisted goal six minutes later to put the Eagles up 2-0 early in the contest.
 
At the 18:13 point of the first period Manhattanville picked up their first shot of the game off the foot of senior Erick Olazabal (Milton, Ontario/Bishop Reding) that was stopped by Eastern goalkeeper Kyle Nichols. Twenty seconds later, sophomore Alem Pelinkovic (Bronx, N.Y./Iona Prep) registered another shot with Nichols stopping that one as well.
 
The two sides played the final 26:27 of the first half without much in terms of offense as the home team took their 2-0 lead into the intermission.
 
After halftime Eastern picked up the first shot of the half at the 50:21 mark of the period that was stopped by Singson. The Eagles continued their control of the ball through the next six minutes of action when they accumulated a pair of shots and one corner kick, again with no success against te Valiants.
 
In the 69th minute of play the Eagles scored their third unanswered goal of the contest as Josh Cirocco crossed a ball that was sent home by Zack Johnson to put Eastern up 3-0. The two connected again just 4:11 later when Johnson put in his second goal of the game to increase the lead to four.
 
With just over five minutes left in the game the Eagles sent a booming goal kick down the field and Eastern regained possession of the ball and Jonathan Nazan put it over freshman Willie Silber (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem East) to increase the lead to five.
 
The final few minuntes ticked off the clock and the Valiants suffered the 5-0 defeat. Shots were in favor of Eastern at a 13-4 differential, while corner kicks were also in favor of the Eagles at 4-2. Eastern was called for eight offsides on the contest, while the Valiants picked up a pair of offsides calls against them.

In goal Nichols picked up the win after making a pair of saves through the first 74:46 of game time, Nick Policastro finished off the final 15:14 without picking up a save. For the Valiants, Singson took the loss to fall to 2-3-3 on the season after allowing the first four goals, while picking up a pair of saves, through the first 79:35 of action. Silber came on to finish off the game and allowed one goal in just over 10 minutes.

"“It was like watching men against boys," said head coach Gregg Miller after the game. "We were second best in every aspect of the game. Out of all my years coaching soccer, that one goes down as the worst performance I have ever seen. You can usually take some parts of a game like this to make a positive, but theres not a single positive thing I can take from a performamce like that."

"Quite simply the Eastern players were up for it and we weren't...we were physically intimidated, outrun, and simply outplayed as we never competed at any point during the contest," Miller continued. "Without a couple of saves made by our keeper in the second half the score could have easily been worse. And now we have to try to pick ourselves up for another tough conference road game against FDU-Florham."
 
Manhattanville (4-5-3, 1-1-0 Freedom) will be back to conference play on Tuesday when it travels to Madison, N.J. to take on the FDU-Florham Devils at 7:00 p.m. Eastern (6-2-1, 1-1-0 Freedom) is also back in action on Tuesday when they take on the Misericordia Cougars at 7:00 p.m. in Dallas, Pa.