'On This Day' Eight Players Fill Scoresheet for Wells Offense
'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Sept. 23, six years ago in 2014.
AURORA, N.Y. – Eight different players recorded at least one point as the Wells College men's soccer team posted a 5-1 victory over the Hawks of Hilbert College on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, at the South Athletic Field. Head Coach Dan Kane picked up his 40th victory with the men's soccer team with the team's fifth win of this season.
Wyatt Buerkle scored his first goal of the season at 9:51 after heading home a corner kick from Cody Primmer. Wells possessed a 1-0 lead until Carlos Valdivieso registered his first collegiate goal after tapping home a rebound given up by the Hilbert goalkeeper in the box.
Entering the second half with a 2-0 lead, the Express wasted no time scoring again as Hunter Sowersby scored his team-leading fifth goal of the season off a nifty feed from Max Cherry at 47:39. At 60:58, Cherry was upended in the box to draw a penalty kick that he quickly converted with a powerful blast into the left hand corner of the net.
Despite a Hilbert goal that cut the deficit to 4-1, Alex van Hoekelen picked up the first goal of his career after hammering home a ball that was sent in off of a corner kick from Levi Christman. Aiming low, van Hoekelen's blast eluded the grasp of the Hilbert goalkeeper to increase the hosts lead to 5-1.
Wells goalkeeper Owen May, making his collegiate debut for the Express, turned aside three-of-four shots on net that he faced to earn the win.
Boxscore: https://www.wells-express.com/sports/msoc/2014-15/boxscores/20140923_ldai.xml
