Box Score

LAKEWOOD, Colo. - No. 19 Metro State earned a 5-1 win on Sunday at Colorado Christian in Lakewood as five different players scored for the Roadrunners.  They improved to 11-5-1 overall and 9-4-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, while CCU fell to 0-15-1 and 0-11-0.

Jeremy Brooks (Phoenix/Horizon H.S.) opened the scoring just eight minutes into the game, heading in a corner from Chris Yoder (Gilbert, Ariz./Mesquite H.S.).

Scott Grode (Gilbert, Ariz./Basha H.S.) scored just 16 seconds before halftime, taking a through ball from Josh Buysse (Longmont, Colo./Longmont H.S.) and blistering a shot from the top of the box over CCU goalkeeper David Ingenfritz before he could get his hands up to make the save.

T.J. Thiebaut (Pueblo, Colo./South H.S.) pushed the lead to 3-0 just over four minutes into the second half.  Kevin Pocalyko (Longmont, Colo./Longmont H.S.) crossed the ball to Marc Herschberger (Westminster, Colo./Northglenn H.S.), who one-touched it to Thiebaut in the middle of the box for the score.

CCU had a chance to cut into the lead at 54:09, but Matt Walberer missed a penalty kick after the Roadrunners were called for a handball in the box.

Scott Crawford (Arvada, Colo./Pomona H.S.) joined the scoring at 76:08 firing a low shot from inside the box, taking a pass from Herschberger.

Andrew Mejia (Littleton, Colo./Mullen H.S.) pushed the lead to 5-0 at 77:55 when Michael Schellenbaum (Mesa, Ariz./Dobson H.S.) passed a ball back out of the box and Mejia took the open shot from 25 yards out.

The Cougars scored their only goal of the game at 80:22 after a turnover near midfield.  Luke Burgard scored on a breakaway after a throughball from Walberer.  Metro State's four defenders stopped on the play in hopes of an offsides call to give Burgard the 1-on-1 with goalkeeper Shailer Thomas (Bloomington, Ill./Bloomington H.S.).

Thomas made two saves in the game for the Roadrunners and Ilgenfritz stopped eight as Metro State held a 30-6 shot advantage.

Grode now has six goals in his past six games, scoring in five of those contests.

Metro State will wrap up the regular season at home on Sunday, Oct. 30, against Colorado State-Pueblo at 2:30 p.m.