DAYTON, OHIO - Dayton (3-3-1, 3-1-1) scored four times in the second half to defeat Duquesne (2-4, 2-3), 5-1, on Saturday afternoon at Dayton's Baujan Field.
Jack Shearer netted Duquesne's goal - his first of the season - in the 55th minute.
Shearer's goal made it 2-1 before the Dayton scored three times in an eight-minute span to put the match out of reach.
DU goalkeeper
Domenic Nascimben, who faced 22 shots, including 14 on goal, finished with a career-high nine saves.
Shearer,
Nate Dragisich and
Maxi Hopfer led the Dukes with four shots each. Shearer had two of DU's seven shots on goal.
Duquesne concludes the spring regular season at Saint Louis on Saturday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Dayton sent a pair of shots on goal following a corner kick in the 10th minute, with both turned away by DU keeper Domenic Nascimben.
- Ryan Landry hit the left post following the Dukes' first corner kick the in the 21st minute.
- Nascimben posted two more saves following UD's fourth corner kick in the 23rd minute.
- Nate Dragisich registered DU's first shot on goal in the 29th minute.
- Duquesne's first seven shots came from six players.
- Nascimben's sixth save came off a Jake Feiner shot in the 34th minute.
- Two minutes later Nascimben saved a Jonas Fjedlberg shot only to have Feiner convert the rebound for the first goal of the match (37').
- UD's Seth Antwi was assessed a red card in the 39th minute, giving the Dukes a man advantage for the remainder of the match.
- The Flyers added two yellows in the 42nd minute.
- Dayton outshot Duquesne 13-7, including 8-1 on goal, in the first 45 minutes.
- The Flyers got on the board again early in the second half on a header by Elias Harryson 47th minute.
- DU responded with shots on goal from Zach Mowka (48') and Logan Muck (49'), but could not put the ball by UD keeper Marc Kouadio.
- Duquesne broke the ice on a goal by Jack Shearer - his first of the season - off a pass from Ade Akinjogbin in the 55th minute.
- Shearer put another shot on net in the 62nd minute, leading to a DU corner.
- Nascimben's career-high eighth save was followed by a Feiner shot off the right post in the 67th minute.
- Dayton made it 3-1 on a goal by Fjeldberg in the 71st minute.
- Fjeldberg added his second goal in the 78th minute and Kingsford Adjei added another a little over one minute later to make it 5-1.
- Dayton outshot Duquesne 22-19, including 14-7 on goal.
- DU had seven corners to six for UD.
- There were 20 fouls (11 on Duquesne and nine on Dayton) in the match.