BOX SCORE

The St. John Fisher College men's soccer team held the nation's top scoring team scoreless in Saturday afternoon's 3-0 victory over Elmira College at Growney Stadium. Elmira entered today's game leading the nation with 4.71 goals per game and was one of only six teams out of 413 Division III schools to enter Saturday unbeaten. With the win the Cardinals improve to 6-3-1 overall and 2-0-1 in the Empire 8, while Elmira falls to 8-1, 2-1.

The Cardinals controlled possession throughout the game, outshooting the Soaring Eagles 17-11.

Fisher used the three different goal scorers in the day's game, starting with Josh Tomko in the 20th minute. Austin Buckley deflected a ball in the box right to Tomko who finished in the lower right corner past the Soaring Eagle keeper.

That was Buckley's first assist of the day, but not his last, as in the 70th minute Buckley juked a defender, dribbled to the end line and sent a cross that found Jake Quattrini right in front of the net, who touched it in for his team-best fourth goal of the year.

Just over six minutes later, Nick Calo chipped a pass to Joel Castellini, Fisher's reigning Male Athlete of the Week, who knocked in an insurance goal for the Cardinals.

The Fisher defense and goalie Kyle Metcalfe were brilliant in the contest. Metcalfe stopped an aggressive cross in the 59th minute by Doug Adjei that would have surely led to a good opportunity to Elmira. Metcalfe had just three saves but the most important came in the 69th minute, as Brian Lowe settled an outlet pass and broke towards the goal, ripping a shot that the keeper dove to his right to save.

Fisher will return to action at 4 p.m. on Tuesday when it travels to face St. Lawrence University in a non-conference matchup.