Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's soccer exploded for five goals – two each from sophomore forwards Micah O'Leary (Phoenix, Ariz./Casa Grande) and Ronan O'Connor (Woodbury, Minn./Hill-Murray) – in a 5-0 non-conference win over Wisconsin-Stout on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Haws Field.

O'Connor now has 16 goals in 16 games this season, the second-most by a Johnnie in program history, and three from the record of 19 scored by Ken Potts in 1974. His 40 points (16g/8a) are also second-most behind Potts' 56 in '74.

The two teams played a scoreless first half, one in which SJU (9-4-3, 2-4-1 MIAC) out-shot Stout (1-12-3, 0-3-0 WIAC) by a 20-1 margin (8-0 on net). O'Connor broke the deadlock four minutes after the break, as the Johnnies' leading scorer headed a shot off the back of his head from senior defender Foster Conlin (Mooresville, N.C./Mounds View) into the net after senior defender Noah Hermanson (St. Paul, Minn./Holy Angels) recovered the ball in the midfield.

O'Leary scored his second of the season – 15 seconds after he checked into the game – in the 68th minute as freshman midfielder James Torguson (Shakopee, Minn.) fed a ball from the top of the box to freshman midfielder Carter Gellner (Chaska, Minn./Chanhassen), who delivered the ball in front of the net for O'Leary to tap in. 

SJU scored its next three goals in a span of six minutes. O'Leary tallied his second of the game and third of the year, as Gellner connected with him once more with a pass into the box. The sophomore scored on a makeshift bicycle kick, tapping the bouncing ball to himself twice and then backwards out of the air into the goal.



O'Connor grabbed a rebound from O'Leary to score the next one, delivering the ball off his right foot from just in front of the Stout goalkeeper. 

Sophomore midfielder Luke Madden (St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) capped the game with the second goal of his career and first of the season in the game's final seconds. Sophomore Brendan Hainey (Minneapolis, Minn./Holy Angels) worked up the field for freshman forward Simon Willets (Soldotna, Alaska), who delivered a ball into the box for Madden to tap in for the final 5-0 score.



The Johnnies ended the game with an overwhelming 39-2 advantage in shots (19-1 on net) and also took 15 corner kicks to the Blue Devils' one. 

Freshman goalkeeper Cole Hanson (Urbandale, Iowa) made one save to record his first collegiate shutout and improve to 4-2-1 on the year.

SJU returns to MIAC play by hosting Concordia (0-11-4, 0-7-1 MIAC) for the final home game of the regular season at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in Collegeville.