Center Valley, PA (October 2, 2006) – The records just keep on falling as senior Randy Sturm (North Cape May, NJ/Lower Cape May) scored four more goals on Monday to lead the DeSales University men’s soccer team past Keystone College, 7-0, in a non-conference game on a picture perfect Monday afternoon.

 

        Sturm’s four tallies mark the fourth time this season he has recorded a hat trick and the second time he has scored four markers.  He now has 19 goals (one shy of the single-season record) and five assists for a team-high 43 points.  His 43 points are just three shy of tying the single-season mark set by Chris Turner in 1987 and we are only halfway thru the season.  His career numbers are now 49 goals (one shy of second all-time) and 20 assists (two shy of tying the all-time career record) for 118 points. 

 

        Those 118 points move him into second place all-time surpassing John Rennie (Cape May, NJ/Middle Township) who graduated in 2004 with 117 career points.  DeSales University Hall of Famer Tim Riggs, a 1990 graduate, is next on the list as Sturm stands just 14 points away from tying him for the all-time points lead and he needs 10 goals to tie Riggs for the all-time lead in goals scored.

 

        DSU completely dominated the game out-shooting Keystone 36-10 and holding a 10-3 advantage in corner kicks.  Junior Rusty Riedmiller (Stroudsburg, PA/Stroudsburg) and freshman Kevin Lawrence (Norristown, PA/Kennedy-Kenrick) combined on the shutout as Riedmiller played the first 76 minutes and recorded six saves, while Lawrence finished the game and did not need to make a save.

 

        Sophomore German Reyes (Beach Lake, PA/Honesdale) started the scoring with an unassisted goal at the 6:52 mark.  He found himself in the right spot at the right time, kicking a loose ball in the box into the net for his fifth goal of the season.  Sturm then went to work.  He scored the next three tallies with the first coming at 9:11 off a feed from junior Kyle Moore (Hockessin, DE/Salesianum), the second coming at the 17:10 mark on a feed from junior Daniel Jones (Ronks, PA/Pequea Valley) and the third coming at the 59:41 mark on an assist from sophomore Chris Ravita (Lebanon, NJ/North Hunterdon).

 

        Sophomore Tim Hall (Montclair, VA/Bishop Ireton) then got into the act scoring his second goal of the year on a header off a corner kick feed from Ravita.  Reyes played the ball short to Ravita who centered it to Hall for the goal.  Freshman Marc Leonard (Bondville, VT/Burr and Burton Academy) made it 6-0 with his first career goal, taking a corner kick pass from Reyes and hitting it past a charging keeper into the right corner and Sturm ended the scoring with his fourth goal, an unassisted tally at the 72:03 mark.

 

        The defense once again did an excellent job of limiting the Giants (2-5 overall) chances.  Freshman Tony Aufiero (Wall, NJ/Wall), Ravita, Hall and sophomore Andrew Marshall (Greene, NY/Greene Central) all had a hand in the shutout.