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CEDARVILLE, Ohio – The Slippery Rock University men's soccer team scored three goals in 14 minutes on its way to a 5-2 victory against Cedarville University Saturday night in non-conference competition from Yellow Jacket Field.
 
Slippery Rock is the only team to have scored more than two goals against the Yellow Jackets in their last 43 matches.
 
The victory improves Slippery Rock's record to 7-4 on the season and was The Rock's fourth win in their last five matches. Cedarville falls to 7-3-2 with the loss.
 
Peter Boylan, who pocketed a pair of goals on the night, led SRU. The trio of Stephen Donnelly, Dom Francis and Mike Ilodigwe also aided the Slippery Rock attack with one goal each.
 
Boylan now has a team-high six goals on the year while Donnelly, Francis and Ilodigwe all have five scores in 2014. Brandon Chiu and Mike Pcholinsky were credited with assists as well.
 
Goalkeeper Kyle Hoffer improved to 2-0 on the season after stopping four shots in 90 minutes of play.
 
The Rock started off in a 1-0 hole after Connor Gilmour scored six minutes into the contest, but the rest of the game would belong to Slippery Rock.
 
Six minutes after Gilmour's goal, Boylan produced the equalizer for SRU on an assist by Pcholinsky. Slippery Rock then grabbed the lead in the 18^th minute off of Ilodigwe's goal with Boylan quickly adding his second score of the evening at 26:40 to give Slippery Rock a commanding 3-1 edge heading into halftime.
 
After a long stretch of scoreless play, Nick Kutcher nearly put Slippery Rock up 4-1 in the 74^th minute when his header off of a Francis corner kick just ricocheted off the crossbar.
 
However, SRU would get its fourth goal just minutes later when Boylan drew a foul in the Cedarville zone that allowed Francis to take a penalty kick, which he converted by beating CU goalie Ethan Dewhurst to the upper left of the goal at 74:33.
 
Donnelly furthered Slippery Rock's lead by finishing his fifth goal of the season after making a long run to the right side and placing his shot high past Dewhurst with 12 minutes left to play.
 
Gilmour tallied his second goal of the night in the game's waning moments as Slippery Rock cruised to the 5-2 victory.
 
For the game, Slippery Rock held an 8-6 advantage in shots on goal while Cedarville edged The Rock in corner kicks (8-1) and total shots (17-16).
 
In addition to his two goals, Gilmour placed four of his five shots on goal to lead the Yellow Jackets in defeat.
 
Slippery Rock returns to Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference competition when it hosts Bloomsburg University Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.