Jacob Palange scored his first two collegiate goals and an own goal helped lift the Pitt-Johnstown men's soccer team to a 5-1 non-conference, victory at Penn State-New Kensington, Tuesday afternoon.  The Mountain Cats, who outshot the Lions, 23-6, evened their record at 1-1-0.
 
Pitt-Johnstown took advantage of an own goal in the 26^th minute off of Penn State-New Kensington's Jose Antonio Del Carmen Montenegro to open the scoring, before Palange netted his first collegiate goal in the 36^th minute off of Andrew Jeffrey's cross.
 
Palange then netted his second goal in the 36^th minute off of an assist from Samuel Benshoff  to give the Mountain Cats a 3-0 halftime advantage.
 
The Lions got on the scoreboard in the 56^th minute on a Vincent Gigliotti goal, but Pitt-Johnstown answered with two more goals in a span of four minutes.

However, Alexzander Toto finished a penalty kick in the 69^th minute, and Benshoff scored off of an Evan Ulrich cross that made it 5-1 just five minutes later.
 
Sage Parsley, PJ Derksen, and Devin Reichenbach all shared time in net for Pitt-Johnstown and combined to make a pair of saves, while limiting the Lions to just one goal.
 
Pablo Rea and AJ Collins each played in goal for Penn State-New Kensington and faced 23 shots, made seven saves and surrendered five goals.
 
The Lions are now 0-2-0.
 
The Mountain Cats travel to non-conference matches at Washington Adventist (MD) on Friday and Shepherd (WV) on Sunday, before making their 2021 home debut with a non-conference match against D'Youville (NY) on September 21 at 4 p.m. at the Pitt-Johnstown Soccer Field.