TIGERVILLE, S.C. — After losing heartbreaking fashion to start the 2025 season, Catawba College men's soccer team returned to Pepsi Stadium and shut out the Bob Jones University Bruins in 5-0 fashion on Tuesday. The match was held at North Greenville due to heavy rain that rendered BJU's field unplayable.

TEAM STATS
- Catawba (5-5-3) sprayed 22 shots at the BJU (5-7-3) net while holding the Bruins to just a pair of deliveries
- The blue and white's 12 shots on goal is the highest total of the year and sets a two-year ceiling in road contests
- The Catawba Indians earned a season-high 11 corner kick opportunities in stark contrast to the Bruins' two
- Officials cited Catawba for 12 fouls and BJU for four, but the Bruins were shown the match's lone yellow card

INDIVIDUAL STATS
- Máté Kenyeres led the way with his seventh and eighth goals of the year to retake the South Atlantic Conference lead
- Adriano Melo, Tomas Kelly and Alex Payton also found the back of the net, giving Payton back-to-back contests with a score
- Lukas García Huidobro dished out a couple of assists in the second half as Payton and Venaría tallied one apiece
- Héctor Vara saved the Bruins' only shot on goal and claimed his fifth win in net; Haruto Togashi took the reins late for the first 10 minutes of his collegiate career
- Thomas Boinet appeared in the defense for the first time this season while Thomas Füreder, Richard Leon and Rahal Karkoubi made their first career starts

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
- Kelly opened the ledger by getting a takeaway deep in the Bruin defense, dribbling toward the net and zipping in the go-ahead score less than 11 minutes into the match
- In the 38th minute, Venaría sent in a shot that deflected off the right post to Payton whose one-timer tickled the twine

Second Half
- Following an off-target BJU shot early in the period, Catawba took control and broke through again on a picturesque García Huidobro pass to a sliding boot from Melo in the 58th minute
- Minutes later, García Huidobro saw a shot get turned away but the deflection went directly to Kenyeres with the back door wide open to chalk up the Hungarian's first score of the day
- Kenyeres locked up the brace less than four minutes later with help from a cross-field Payton feed
- Outside of an 82nd-minute corner kick, the Bruins were kept quiet for the final third of the contest as Catawba pocketed its third clean sheet

UP NEXT
Catawba jumps back into SAC play and the hunt for a playoff spot on Saturday, Nov. 1, at home against Newberry.