GWYNEDD VALLEY, Pa.  – The Cairn University men's soccer team won by a score of 4-0 on the road against non-conference foe Gwynedd Mercy University on Tuesday, marking their sixth-straight win and their final non-conference game of the season.
 
Cairn (9-2-2) jumped on the scoreboard over Gwynedd Mercy (1-15) in the 16^th minute when senior Josh Goodyear (Camp Hill, PA / Camp Hill) scored inside the box off a feed from classmate Micah Portis (Abington, PA / Abington) to give Cairn a 1-0 lead. The Highlanders added a second goal in the first half when freshman Jayson Fields (Vineland, NJ / Cumberland Christian) found the ball off of a corner kick by junior Jacob O'Brien (Upper Township, NJ / Atlantic Christian) to increase the lead to 2-0. In the 63^rd minute, graduate student Brandon Hasko (Pitman, NJ / Pitman) scored off a run with freshman Jesse Brittain (Chester, PA / The Christian Academy) to make it 3-0, before Hasko dished out an assist to Portis less than one minute later to finish off the contest.
 
Cairn bested the Griffins in shots (25-7) and shots on goal (11-6) and also held a significant advantage in corner kicks (14-1). Senior goalkeeper Kameron Clark (Ewing, NJ / Ewing) started in net, collecting a pair of saves in the first half, while freshman Chris Eelman (North Haledon, NJ / Hawthorne Christian) finished off the shutout in net, grabbing four saves in the process.
 
The Highlanders will be back on the pitch on Saturday, October 23 when they return to official Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) play to take on Keystone College in a road matchup at 4 p.m.