Box Score

Galesburg, IL – The Prairie Fire continued their hot start to the season with a 6-0 win over Iowa Wesleyan College at home on Saturday.

The victory was the fifth straight for Knox, which has shut out four of the last five opponents.

The Prairie Fire (5-1) put the match against the Tigers away early with six first half goals.  Senior Maxwell Gatyas (Plymouth, WI, Plymouth Comprehensive) started the scoring parade when he drained a penalty kick at the 21:23 mark for a 1-0 Knox lead.

Sophomore Charlie Harned (Webster Groves, MO, Clayton) had a big day for the Prairie Fire.  He assisted on the next five goals to tie the Midwest Conference record of five assists.  Chris Johnson of Beloit College also had five assists against Rockford College in 2006.

Harned increased his assist total to nine on the season.

Sophomore Nathaniel Logie (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Queens Royal College) continued his scoring surge with a goal 24:22 into the match on an assist by Harned for a 2-0 advantage for Knox.

Logie, who had two goals in a 4-3 OT win at Concordia Chicago on September 11, struck again 65 seconds later with his second goal of the match and eighth this year to extend the Prairie Fire's lead to 3-0.

Junior Ezekiel Jere (Tema, Ghana, SOS Herman Gmeiner) put Knox on top 4-0 at the 26:16 mark on an assist by Harned.  Sophomore Hadee Ahmadi (Denver, CO, Martin Luther King Jr.) followed with two goals in 56 seconds, his second at 34:56, and the Prairie Fire built a healthy 6-0 lead at the intermission.

The goals were the first of the season for Jere and Ahmadi, giving the Prairie Fire 10 players with at least one goal scored so far this season.

Knox took 22 total shots, including 15 on goal.  The Tigers (0-4) got off five shots, four of them on goal.  Prairie Fire goal keeper Sean Dockrell (Dublin, Ireland, San Bernadino CC) corralled all four Iowa Wesleyan shots at the goal and recorded his fourth shutout of the season.

Knox tries to keep its winning streak alive on Sunday, September 15 against Robert Morris University – Springfield (3-3).  The match against the Eagles at Jorge Prats Field starts at 3:00 p.m.

RMU has won two straight matches, including a 6-2 victory against Iowa Wesleyan at home on September 11.

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