Box Score
The Pitt-Johnstown men's soccer team got a goal and an assist from Haven Mackie and climbed out to a three-goal second half lead on its way to a 4-2 non-conference victory over Shepherd (WV) University, Tuesday afternoon in Shepherdstown, W.Va.  The Mountain cats improved to 2-7 on the year.
 
Pitt-Johnstown jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Mackie finished John Lopez's pass 14 minutes into the match, before Colin Harrison's goal off an assist from Mackie increased it to 2-0 six minutes later.
 
Shepherd came back to cut the deficit to one at the half on Callum Ward's goal in the 33^rd minute, but the Mountain Cats came out and added two more goals in the 61^st and 68^th minutes to extend their lead to three.
 
Colin Michalski finished A.J. McNary's assist 16 minutes into the second half, and Erik Etter scored unassisted in the 68^th minutes to make it 4-1.
 
The Rams tried to get back in it and narrowed it to 4-2 on a goal from Justin Daniels with just under 11 minutes to play, but that was as close as Pitt-Johnstown would let it get.
 
Nate Kleya picked-up the win in goal for Pitt-Johnstown after facing 19 shots, making five saves, and allowing two goals.
 
Jacob Clements allowed all four goals for the Rams, who dropped to 1-9-0 on the year.  Clements saw 33 Mountain Cat shots and made eight saves.
 
Pitt-Johnstown ends a stretch of seven straight road matches with a non-conference match at Washington Adventist (MD) on Wednesday and a PSAC match at Lock Haven on Saturday.  The Mountain Cats will play their next home match against Daemen (NY) on October 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the Pitt-Johnstown Soccer Field.