PURCHASE, N.Y. – Scoring three times in each half, the Manhattanville College men's soccer team began the final homestand of the regular season with a 6-1 victory over Sarah Lawrence College on Wednesday evening. The red-hot Valiants continued to roll, picking up their seventh-consecutive win and remaining undefeated in conference play, improving their Skyline Conference record to 8-0-1 and overall record on the season to 9-4-2.

Eli Pardo (Norwalk, Conn./Brien McMahon) and Jackson Ayres (Tampa, Fla./Tampa Prep) each had two goal games as the Valiants logged a season-high 37 shots in the contest. Jostyn Blanco (Norwalk, CT/Brien Mcmahon High School) and Kendall Davis (Atlanta, Georgia/Immaculata) both added a second half goal to close things out.

As Valiants fans have come to expect this season, it was another strong display by Luis Granados (Pasadena, Calif./St. Francis) in net for the Crimson and White. The Skyline Conference Defensive Player of the Week made seven stops, with the only blemish on his statline coming via a Sarah Lawrence penalty kick in the second half. Even with surrendering his first goal in four games, the sophomore continues to lead the conference in both goals-against average (0.57) and save percentage (.894).

Pardo got the party started in the 17^th minute, dribbling the ball past Gryphon netminder Kian Silva who came out of net to try and make a play on the ball. After slipping past the Sarah Lawrence keeper, Pardo was able to fire home a sharp angle shot to get the Valiants on the board. Ayres would extend the Manhattanville lead 12 minutes later before Pardo scored his second of the night and team-leading tenth of the season to put the Vals ahead 3-0 after the half.

Blanco would join scoring four minutes into the second half, finishing a pass from Cody Lacava for his second goal of the year. The Gryphons would get one back off of Nicholas Fajardo's penalty shot got past a diving Granados into the lower right corner of the net. Manhattanville responded in the 66^th minute as Davis was able to find the loose ball after Michael Mezzina's (Pompton Lakes, N.J./Morris Catholic) corner kick led to a scrum in front of the net. The senior midfielder buried the shot for his fourth of the year. Ayres would put a bow on the night with a corner kick of his own, firing the kick directly into the Gryphon net in the 81^st minute.

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The Valiants will host Mount Saint Mary College on Saturday at 4 p.m. for Senior Day.