Box Score
Purchase, NY (Sept. 19, 2013) – A hat trick by midfielder Stefan Gohler highlighted a 9-0 home victory by Purchase Thursday night.
Gohler (SR/Brooklyn, NY) paced the offense in a dominating win against Sarah Lawrence. Purchase has now won two straight to improve to 3-3-1. The loss dropped SLC to 1-4 on the fall.
Junior Sanguina (JR/White Plains, NY) led the early strike for the Panthers and jump started the offense with a score (4:47) off a touch from inside the six that he blasted into the lower left corner of the net for a 1-0 margin.
Sanguina would score again shortly later, notching his fifth goal of the fall on another unassisted mark – this time into the upper right corner from inside the 18.
Leading 2-0, that's when Gohler went to work on three straight goals. He scored off an assist from Justin Milian (SO/Mahopac, NY) and Sanguina at 11:30, then added his second score of the night at 15:14 off a through ball, which Sanguina assisted, and then capped his hat trick off a feed from Wil Kaufman (FR/Broomall, PA). The last Gohler score came off a header.
Head coach James Bruno emptied his bench for the second half with the Panthers leading 7-0.
Gohler pushed the lead to 5-0 late in the first. Hunter Wilson (FR/Lake Placid, NY) and Eli Wilson-Berkowitz (JR/Northampton, MA) scored the final two goals of the first period.
Wilson-Berkowitz assisted Wilson on the sixth goal of the game and then scored his first goal of the season off a feed from Brad Kohel (FR/Goshen, NY).
Wilson would score his second goal of the season in the second half off an assist from Justin Gross (FR/Rochester, NY), who assisted again on Zach Miller's goal, which concluded the scoring at 9-0. For Miller (JR/Saratoga, NY), it was also his first of the season. It came on a corner kick in the 84th minute.
Purchase outshot SLC 37-2 and won the corner kick margin (14-1) as keeper Esteban Aguilar (SO/East Hampton, NY) earned his third win of the season in goal.
The Panthers will look to make it three straight Saturday when they open their conference schedule against Farmingdale State. That game is set for 2:30 p.m. at home.
