Box Score FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The LIU Brooklyn men's soccer team picked up its sixth straight victory, ran its unbeaten streak to seven and earned its first regular season Northeast Conference title since 2002 with a 3-1 win over Sacred Heart on Friday. The victory runs the Blackbirds' conference record to a perfect 6-0-0, marking the first time the team has accomplished the feat since 1992. With the win, LIU Brooklyn will host the upcoming Northeast Conference Tournament at LIU Field on Nov. 13-15.
 
Senior Logan Keys, who entered the match with the nation's best save percentage at .914, made his first save early in the first half, stopping the Pioneers' Shaquille Saunchez. Later in the 21^st minute, the Pioneers took a free kick that was headed for the back of the net, but Keys was there to college the shot and keep Sacred Heart off the board.
 
With the time running down in the first half and the contest still scoreless, freshman Rasmus Hansen made a run down the left side and knocked the ball towards goal. A pair of SHU defenders looked as though they would clear the ball, but it ricocheted into the back of the net for an own goal to give LIU a 1-0 lead. Keys concluded the period by making his fifth save of the game in the 41^st minute, stopping a shot from Saunchez.
 
In the second half, redshirt freshman Romario Guscott scored back-to-back goals for the Blackbirds, increasing LIU's lead to 3-0 less than ten minutes into the period. In the 49^th minute, a mishandled pass back to the Sacred Heart keeper gave Guscott an opportunity to collect a loose ball and score. A few minutes later, Hansen sent the ball up the field to Guscott, who found the back of the net from 25 yards out for his fifth goal of the season.
 
In the 70^th minute, Guscott broke away from the Pioneer defense, going one-on-one with the keeper, but senior Tucker Hackett was there for the save. The LIU defense had two consecutive blocked shots in the 75^th minute, but Saunchez got a shot off that hit the crossbar and the Pioneers' Callum Smith scored a header goal early in the 76^th minute off of Saunchez's shot to trim the LIU lead to 3-1. The goal broke a streak of 378 minutes and two seconds that the Blackbirds had kept the opposition out of the scoring column
 
From there, the Blackbirds defense held sturdy to secure the win and move LIU to 9-5-2 on the year overall. Keys finished the contest with five saves while Guscott tallied a team-best three shots.
 
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It's Senior Day at LIU Field on Sunday, Nov. 1 at 2:00 p.m., when LIU takes on the Eagles of Georgia Southern in a non-conference matchup.