Box Score
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – No. 17 Saint John's soccer blanked Hamline 7-0 for its 10th shutout of the season on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Haws Field.
Freshman forward
Jacob Oliver (St. Cloud, Minn./Cathedral) scored a hat trick off the bench to increase his team lead in goals to nine. Ten other Johnnies had points in the game and a total of 31 SJU players saw time on the field.
SJU jumped seven spots to No. 17 in the latest United Soccer Coaches top 25 poll released earlier today.
Oliver's hat trick was the third by a Johnnie freshman since 2000, joining teammate
Axel Martin (Sept. 22, 2025 vs. St. Scholastica) and Michael Coborn '14 (Oct. 26, 2010 vs. Macalester). Martin and Coborn, however, were in the starting lineup in their three-goal performances.
SJU (12-1-0, 4-1-0 MIAC) was plagued with fouls to start the game – 6-3 in the first 25 minutes – but out-shot Hamline (4-5-3, 1-3-2 MIAC) 5-1 in that same period. Freshman defender
Aidan Buckneberg (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Southwest) broke the stalemate with his first collegiate goal at 26:25 on a kick from outside the box.
Oliver added his first tally of the game as time ticked down in the first half, tapping in a feed from freshman forward
Andrew Panner (Minnetonka, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's) and junior forward
Ronan O'Connor (Woodbury, Minn./Hill-Murray) after the Johnnies hit it off the crossbar twice.
Fellow freshman
Billy Cornett (Minneapolis, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) wasted no time extending the lead, heading in a sophomore
James Torguson (Shakopee, Minn.) corner kick at 47:28. Freshman midfielder
Grady Monette (Andover, Minn.) scored his fourth goal of the season less than two minutes later off a cross into the box from sophomore forward
Eli Ryan (Victoria, Minn./Minnetonka) for his 11th assist of the season. Ryan entered play Tuesday leading NCAA Division III in assists.
Oliver tapped in two more in the box, one off a pass from Martin and the other off a
Thomas Theising (Minneapolis, Minn./Wayzata) throw-in to complete the hat trick.
Sophomore
Peter Alberigi (Frisco, Texas/Founders Classical Academy) capped the game's scoring in the 88th minute after freshman
Adam Bane's (Woodbury, Minn.) shot off the post deflected to Alberigi in the box.
Sophomore goalkeeper
Alex Keekley (St. Louis Park, Minn./Minnetonka) got the start and made two saves in goal while classmate
Austin Ertel (Brownsburg, Ind./Lawrence Central) finished the shutout in the game's final 34:23.
The Johnnies travel to face Augsburg (3-1-5, 2-1-2 MIAC) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Edor Nelson Field in Minneapolis.
