Box Score KALAMAZOO, Mich.- The Western Michigan men's soccer team found the back of the net early and often, pummeling Atlantic 10 Conference counterpart St. Bonaventure 8-0 Friday at the WMU Soccer Complex.

The game was the second of the day of the first annual Radisson Invitational, a four-team tournament hosted by Western Michigan this weekend. Detroit defeated Western Illinois in game one, 2-1. The Broncos will face Western Illinois Sunday at 2 p.m.

With the win over St. Bonaventure, Western Michigan improved its record to 4-0-0. It is the first time in school history the program has started the season with four straight shutouts. Entering the weekend, WMU was just one of 12 Division I programs that had not conceded a goal.

Five Bronco players combined to score the eight goals and nine players combined to register 14 total assists. The eight goals were the most ever against a Division I opponent. The Broncos tallied 10 goals against IPFW in 1988 when the Mastodons were Division II and has hung double digit goal totals on Division III and NAIA opponents, but has never scored as many as eight against a fellow Division I program.

Redshirt freshman Dzenan Nezirevic got the goal scoring started in the seventh minute and Western Michigan went on to net four more before halftime. Nezirevic, senior Nick Wysong and senior Carlos Suarez each tallied two goals in the game. Also putting away goals were seniors Sean Conerty and Connor Furgason. For Nezirevic and Conerty it was their first career goals as Broncos.

Junior Edu Jimenez had a game-high three assists while Wysong, Conerty and senior Esteban Russell each had two. Suarez, junior Hunter Vandenboom, sophomore Brandon Bye and freshman Nathan Hoover each had one helper. It was Hoover's first collegiate point.

With the two goals and two assists, Wysong finished the match with six points. Wysong, who was recently named to the TopDrawerSoccer national team of the week, has now registered at least one point in all four games this season and leads Western Michigan with 11 points and four goals.
 
“We had a great team performance from the guys today I'm very proud all of them,” said WMU head coach Chad Wiseman. “Coming into the match we knew that we were very capable of scoring goals. We had done a great job creating scoring chances but not necessary finishing those chances. Today we took our chances well and were very sharp in our possession and clinical in the final third.”

Western Michigan's defense only allowed three shots. Redshirt sophomore Drew Shepherd and senior Chase Rau split halves in goal and were not forced to make a save.

The Radisson Invitational continues Sunday with Detroit (1-2-2) and St. Bonaventure (1-4-0) squaring off at 11 a.m., prior to the Western Michigan versus Western Illinois (0-4-1) match at 2 p.m.