NEWBERG, Ore. Relentless pressure from its attack led Whitman to a barrage of goals not matched within its Northwest Conference men's soccer results since at least 1999, as the Blues demolished host George Fox University 6-0 in Sunday's league match at the Austin Sports Complex.
Whitman (8-7-3, 7-3-3 NWC) equaled its largest goal output from any match since a win by the identical score against Walla Walla University on Sept. 14, 2014. Sunday's loss sends Fox (4-14-1, 2-10-1) to its ninth loss in its last 10 outings.
A first half in which the Blues found the back of the net four times equaled the team's highest scoring output
for a game this season. And the explosion started early in Sunday's affair.
CJ Fritz collected a pass from brother
Jacob Fritz and blasted a shot from outside the box past Bruins goalkeeper Andrew Phillis at the 9:33 mark. Not even three minutes later
CJ Fritz was at it again sneaking a shot into the netting after quick touch-passes from
Gabe Jacobson and
Ben Freedman to put the Blues up by two not even 13 minutes into the contest.
A converted PK by
Noah Cavanaugh in the 28th and a goal from
David Chavarin in the 32nd escalated the margin to four. Chavarin's score was his first this season, and came off another double-assist, this one from Freedman and
CJ Fritz.
Cavanaugh scored -- his team-leading eighth -- on a free kick in the 53rd minute to push the scoreboard up a digit, and
Sam Johnson -- with his first collegiate goal -- collected a rebound off his own shot to notch the game's sixth and final goal.
Whitman owned possession throughout the game, piling up a 27-4 advantage in shots and a 12-0 edge in shots on goal.
Sunday's victory looked different only on the scoreboard from earlier in the season when the Blues racked up a 23-6 shots advantage but dropped a 2-1 double-overtime decision to the Bruins in the NWC opener for both teams in mid-September.
Sunday's two-goal start from
CJ Fritz made sure that this time around the outcome was destined to be different.
Phillis ended up making six saves in defeat while his counterparts at the other end didn't need to register a single save.
Matt Reich started and played the first half to earn the win, but gave way to
Jack Filipponi at the start of the second half.
Aidan Nuttall came in for Filipponi with 7:44 to play and like the two keepers before him was largely a bystander to Whitman's possessive afternoon.
Whitman, in fourth place within the league standings with 24 points, closes out its season Saturday in Spokane, Washington, at Whitworth University which is third in the conference with 25 points.
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