DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle men's soccer team defeated the Warner Royals 6-0 in the quarterfinals of The Sun Conference Men's Soccer Tournament Saturday.The Eagles improved their record to 9-6 and secured a spot in the semifinal round, while the Royals close out their season at 11-6-1.

The Eagles scored the first goal of the evening after Sam Litchfield's shot attempt was blocked over the touch line for an ERAU corner kick. Michael Donald lifted his second cross from the corner flag and the ball found its way to Alexis Pradie in the box. Pradie's header went to the top left corner to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead in the 14th minute.

In the 24th minute, Aaron Applebee won the ball just outside the penalty area and after dribbling into the box, he was brought down by a Royal defender resulting in an ERAU penalty kick. Ryan Maloney stepped up to the penalty spot and converted on his third penalty attempt of the year.

In the teams' first meeting of 2010, a red card forced the Eagles to play a man down. In Saturday's game, the fortunes were reversed, as a hard tackle in the midfield led to the referee issuing a red card to Warner. Despite being down a player, the Royals had an opportunity to pull to within one when the Eagles were called for a foul inside the penalty area. Michael Alvarado stepped up to the spot, but Kile Kennedy was up to the challenge and stopped Alvarado's attempt to keep the Royals off the board.

In the 34th minute, Ryan Woods crossed the ball into the box from the right side and it was met by Mathias Klatt whose diving header beat Romero low to give ERAU a 3-0 advantage at the break.

The Eagles dominated the pitch for the entire second half allowing only one shot during play.

The Blue and Gold scored their first goal of the second half in the 48th minute when Donald took the ball up the left side of the field and passed it to a wide open Maloney, who was five yards in front of the keeper. Maloney took the pass and scored his 20th goal on the year to put the Eagles up 4-0.

In the 62nd minute, Woods took a throw in from Klatt just outside the penalty box and quickly fired a shot past Romero, who was caught off guard, to put the Blue and Gold up 5-0.

In the 65th minute Maloney blasted a shot at Romero from just inside the penalty box, but was denied by the keeper making a diving save.  Luckily for the Eagles, Donald was there to get the rebound and score the sixth and final goal of the game for the Eagles.

The Eagle men will return to the pitch for the semifinals of The Sun Conference Tournament when they travel to St. Thomas to take on the Bobcats on Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m.