BOSTON – Senior Pedro DaSilva (Fogo, Cape Verde/Madison Park (Mass.)) scored four goals to lead the UMass Boston Beacons to a 9-0 win over the University of Southern Maine Huskies in a Little East Conference men's soccer game Saturday evening.

            UMass Boston remains undefeated on the season with its eight consecutive win to stand at 8-0 and 2-0 in the Little East.  Southern Maine falls to 1-6-1 with the loss and is 0-2 in the LEC.

            The Beacons scored early as junior Edmilson Barros (Praia, Cape Verde/Madison Park Tech. Vocational (Mass.)) put his team ahead 1-0 in the fifth minute before DaSilva scored the first two of his four goals in the 29th and 39th minutes of the opening half to give UMB a comfortable 3-0 lead at the break.

            In the second half, the Beacons again struck early as freshman Mohamed Kenawy (Revere, Mass.) and junior Pedro DeCarvalho (Praia, Cape Verde/Brookline (Mass.)) scored in the 49th and 50th minute to make it an insurmountable 5-0 Beacons' lead.  The Beacons then scored three goals in a six-minute span to make it 8-0 including goals from DaSilva in the 65th and 69th minute.  The final goal of the game came on a USM own-goal in the 83rd minute for the 9-0 final.

            USM junior Ian Byron (North Yarmouth, Masine/Greely) took the loss allowing eight goals and making four saves in 68:38 of action.  Freshman Kevin Dowling (Stamford, Vt./McCann Technical) finished out the final 21:22 allowing one goal and making a pair of saves.  UMB senior Alfonso Rosales (Revere, Mass.) earned the shutout making one save in 84:58 of action.  Sophomore Adonis Mutambo (Democratic Republic of Congo/Complex Scolaire Lumuba) played the final 5:02 and did not record a save.

Southern Maine hosts UMaine Farmington in non-conference action on Wednesday (4:30 p.m.). UMass Boston travels to Bridgewater State on Wednesday (7:00 p.m.).    

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