MONMOUTH, Ill. – The Illinois College men's soccer team remained at the top of the Midwest Conference standings by rolling past Monmouth, 4-0, on Tuesday at Peacock Memorial Athletic Park.
The victory improved IC to 10-3-1 overall and 4-0-0 in conference play. Monmouth moved to 2-8-2, 0-3-1.
IC 4 Monmouth 0
This match was all IC from the outset. The Blueboys opened the scoring at the 26:29 mark of the opening half when
Reed Rogers scored on a penalty kick. IC's
Carver Taylor added the final goal of the period just under 20 minutes later and the Blueboys went into the intermission leading 2-0.
The second half was much of the same as the first.
Tyler Schiltz made it 3-0 when he scored at the 59:53 mark.
Eben Reed closed out the day's scoring at 68:43 when he found the net off a feed from
Thomas Menke.
IC out-shot the Fighting Scots, 14-7 (the Blueboys had eight shots on goal) with Schiltz, Rogers,
Toby Ybarra, and
Oscar Liogon Arenas each collecting two.
TJ Esseily pitched a shutout in goal for IC.
Blue Notes
IC is unbeaten in its past seven Midwest Conference matches dating back to last season… the Blueboys are unbeaten in their past six matches.
Up Next
The Blueboys will continue the current road swing on Saturday when they travel to Lawrence for a Midwest Conference match that will kick off at 11:00 a.m.
