Knox College Prairie Fire

A sophomore from Palm Bay, Florida, Kestervens Dera just returned to the pitch after recovering from an injury and played sparingly in the Prairie Fire’s first Midwest Conference win on Tuesday, a 2-1 defeat of Cornell College. But he returned with a vengeance at Beloit on Saturday, scoring all three Knox goals in a 3-0 road victory, lifting the Prairie Fire into third place in the MWC standings. He is the first Knox player to collect a hat trick in two years and leads the team in scoring despite missing half of the 14 games to date.