Men's Soccer Wins HLM Tournament; Eckberg Named MVP

ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend men's soccer team defeated Baldwin Wallace 4-1 in the 2021 Herb Lauffer Memorial Championship game on Sunday night.

Final Score: Behrend 4, Baldwin Wallace 1
Records: Behrend (2-1), Baldwin Wallace (1-2)

Noteworthy

* Senior Cameron Eckberg (Westmoreland City, PA/Norwin) was named the MVP of the tournament for the Lions
* Junior goalie Sam York (Akron, OH/Revere) stopped a Baldwin Wallace penalty kick in the 31^st minute and finished the night with five saves to halt the Yellow Jackets comeback

Key Moments

* The contest featured three penalty kicks and five total goals, favoring the Lions all in the first half
* It started out with Baldwin Wallace finding the back of the net just 50 seconds into game
* From that point on, the Lions held the Yellow Jackets scoreless and buried four unanswered goals to capture the HLM Championship
* Logan Brinsky (Canonsburg, PA/Peters Township) knotted the game at 1-all in the 25^th minute
* Sean Abraham (Oakmont, PA/Riverview) sent a ball in from the right side and flicked it to Brinsky, who knocked a one-touch shot past Zoltan Nagy
* Brinsky's goal was the first of three in a span of five minutes
* Behrend tallied the next two goals on penalty kicks to take a 3-1 lead
* Defenders Justin LeDonne (Murrysville, PA/Franklin Regional) and Nick Laskey (Charleroi, PA/Charleroi) each scored their first goals of the season on the PK's
* LeDonne converted the first penalty kick at 26:27 and Laskey followed at 29:19
* The final goal belonged to Matthew Romesberg Jr. (Hollsopple, PA/North Star)
* Romesberg Jr. ran in front of Nagy to block his defensive clear from the 18-yard box, chasing down the ball and scoring on an empty net in the 34^th minute

Up Next:

* Behrend returns to action on Friday night at Rutgers-Newark. Game time is 7:30 p.m.