Nashua, NH - In men's collegiate soccer action, the Falcons of Albertus Magnus College swooped in to Rivier College to defeat the Raiders 6-3.

The Falcons owned the first half of play scoring 4 times and going into half time with a 4-0 lead.  Jamal Howard (West Haven, CT) scored the game's first two goals for the Falcons off assists by Derek Delucia (Hamden, CT).  Delucia then added a goal of his own from an assist by David Pietkiewicz (Clifton, NJ) to make the score 3-0 and Matt Siperas (North Haven, CT) added the 4th goal of the half from an assist by Mike DaSilva(Stratford, CT).

DaSilva started the second half with his first goal of the game off Delucia's third assist.  With just over 18 minutes left in the game, the Falcons pulled starting goalkeeper Ryan Mihalyak (West Haven, CT) and put in back-up Anthony Paturzo (West Haven, CT).  The Raiders took the opportunity and started to put on the pressure.  In the next 9 minutes of play, the Raiders scored 3 goals, two were unassisted by Chris Nugent (Surrey, England), his 4th and 5th goals of the season, which were split by a goal by senior Matt Blair (Haverhill, MA) assisted by freshman Cameron Williams (Lisbon, NH).  The goal was the first of Blair's career.

With the score 5-3, Albertus coach Jim Bernardo would take no more chances as he replaced his starting goalkeeper for the remainder of the game.  DaSilva then added the sixth and final goal of the game with just over five minutes to play from an assist by Peter Hamasian (Hamden, CT).

The win improves Albertus Magnus to a 7-6-1 overall record and 2-4-1 in GNAC play while the loss drops Rivier to a 0-12-0 overall and 0-4-0 in the GNAC.