MADISON, N.J. (Oct. 14, 2015) – Drew University men's soccer bested St. Joseph's College – Long Island on Wednesday with a relentless series of smart passes and creative scores to take its final non-conference tilt of the year, 5-1.
 
Drew (10-2-2) outshot St. Joseph's – LI (5-9-1) 20-2. Freshman forward Alexi Velazquez led the charge with five shots. 11 different Rangers took shots in the victory, and every healthy Ranger played. 
 
Just four minutes after giving up the opening score, the Rangers retaliated. Sophomore forward Benjamin Audi capitalized on a generous feed from junior midfielder Joe Sollod. Sollod pursued a slicing downfield ball that bounded into the penalty box on the near side. He took a quick touch to his left. Audi made just enough contact with it to chop it over the keeper's head. Audi's eighth goal made the score 1-1.

 
In the 35^th minute, freshman forward Anthony McMyne chased down a lofting lob that sent him toward the penalty box. The goalie, charging hard for McMyne, made an effort to cut down the angle on the breakaway. McMyne calmly chipped it softly over the rushing keeper, and the ball bounced softly and eventually rolled into the left side of the net.
 

 
The score was McMyne's second of the year and second of the game for the Rangers as they pulled ahead 2-1. The lead would hold until the half. 
 
The Golden Eagles, however, were the ones who scored the first goal of the game in what was a very active opening 10 minutes for either team. They used several sharp ground passes to draw Drew's defense off balance dangerously close to the net. They pinballed it back and forth before opting for a header that beat the keeper to the right. St. Joseph's held a brief lead of 1-0 before the Rangers' scoring onslaught began.
 
The second half opened as the Rangers put in a through ball right by the back four that found Velazquez like a magnet. Velazquez, balancing two defenders on his back and the ball at his feet buried the breakaway try to send Drew ahead 3-1 just three minutes into the half.



With 25 minutes to play, junior forward Bass Etta-Ashu added the exclamation point on the afternoon's victory. He took the ball on a trip as he powered through the Golden Eagles' defenders like a halfback. With the Golden Eagles doing all they could short of tackling the near 200-pound power striker, Etta-Ashu refused to relinquish control of the ball. He shed three hacking defenders to earn a one-on-one opportunity with the goalie, which he converted into his seventh point in five games.
 

 
Just four minutes later Etta-Ashu decided to spread the wealth, dishing across the box for junior midfielder Dylan Hammer who powered home the Rangers' fifth goal of the game.
 

 
The victory was Drew's final non-conference game of the regular season. It closes with four Landmark tilts, the first of which will take at Ranger Stadium against Goucher College on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 1:00 p.m.