RIO GRANDE, Ohio – The fourth-ranked Embry-Riddle men's soccer team showed no ill effects from a 15-hour bus ride from Daytona Beach to Ohio and they downed No. 21 Mobile 3-1 at the Rio Grande Soccer Tournament on Friday. Sophomore Joe Yoffe continued to dominate the Eagles' scoring charts recording his second hat trick in as many games as the Eagles improved to 4-0 on the season.

“This was a good win against well-organized opposition and at times we played some excellent soccer and scored three very good goals,” assistant coach Paul Buckley observed.”

The Eagles' first goal of the match came in the eighth minute. Daniel Whelan's long cross found Phil Middleton running down the right side, who whipped a cross into Yoffe inside the 18-yard box. Yoffe beat Mobile keeper Dave Monsalve with a shot to the lower right corner to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead.

With one minute remaining in the first half, Mobile won a corner and on the ensuing corner kick earned a penalty when the referee spotted a foul in the box. Caetano Lima caught ERAU goalie Viktor Bergstrand leaning the wrong way to send both teams into the half time break with one goal apiece.

The Eagles wasted little time in reclaiming the lead after the break, scoring just over five minutes into the second half. Peter Masters dropped the ball back to Whelan in the middle of the park. Whelan took a few touches before slipping a pass to Yoffe who spun away from his defender and slotted home his second goal of the night for a 2-1 Eagle lead.

In the 59th minute, Ian Thompson took the ball 60 yards through the heart of the Mobile defense before finding Yoffe just outside the penalty box. Yoffe dribbled around an advancing Monsalve to complete the hat trick and seal the 3-1 victory.

Bergstrand collected three saves, while his Mobile counterpart Monsalve managed five as the Rams fall to 2-4.

The Eagles return to action at 7 p.m. on Saturday against host and second-ranked Rio Grande.

Off the back of four straight wins, we're now going into tomorrow's game against the second-ranked team in the nation full of confidence, assistant coach Philip Jones said. It's a good opportunity for us to play two national tournament caliber teams back-to-back and it should be a good measuring stick for us."