Box Score
YONKERS, N.Y.—Gryphons Rodrigo Cuenca (San Diego, Calif./La Jolla Country Day) and Ishaan Pujari (Bangalore, India/Inventure Academy) each tallied a pair of goals, as Sarah Lawrence College men's soccer defeated St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, 4-1, in a Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game at Tibbetts Brook Park on Wednesday.

Sarah Lawrence (3-6, 3-2 HVIAC) struck first blood in the 21st minute. Cuenca notched his second goal of the season with a well-placed free kick that found the bottom corner of the net.

The lead was extended late in the first half, when Cuenca and Aman Banerji (New Delhi, India/The Shri Ram School) fed a chain-reaction pass through the middle to Pujari on the front line. The junior had no trouble netting his team-high sixth goal of the season and the eventual game-winning goal.

Just 78 seconds into the second half, Pujari struck again. On a goal kick that was misplayed by the Bears defense, Pujari found himself on a breakaway and scored his second goal of the game.

St. Joseph's Brooklyn (0-6, 0-2 HVIAC) was not easily discouraged, and less than a minute later, Giuseppe Porretto launched a high bending shot that crossed the goal and found the bottom right corner to cut the gap to 3-1. The Bears kept up the pressure and tallied a dozen shots in the game.

SLC improved their cushion in the 81st minute, when Cuenca capitalized on a corner-kick opportunity by dribbling into the 6 yard box and pounding a shot just inside the left post for his third goal of the season.

Pujari and Cuenca combined for 16 of the Gryphons' 25 shots, while Roland Wynter (New York, N.Y./Lower Manhattan Arts Academy) tallied three shots, and Tahmid Munat (Dhaka, Bangladesh/Notre Dame) added a pair.

In goal, SLC keeper Elliott Warkus (Waimea, Hawai'i/Parker School) notched two saves on the day, while replacement keeper Aaron Baker stopped seven shots for the Bears.

Sarah Lawrence returns to action on Monday, when the team hosts Medgar Evers College at Tibbetts Brook Park at 7 p.m.