Albany, N.Y. – Senior striker Zach Hecox needed less than 31 minutes of scoreboard time to rack up a hat trick to lead the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences men's soccer team to a 7-0 non-conference win over visiting SUNY Cobleskill at the ACPHS Soccer Field Wednesday afternoon. The Panthers, who scored six times in the first half, improved to 5-3 on the season with their third consecutive shutout victory.
 
ACPHS struck early and often against the Fighting Tigers (0-6), starting with a Hecox goal in the sixth minute. Nine minutes later, Hecox assisted on defender Robert Falcone's first career goal, sending a corner kick into the six-yard box where Falcone headed it home.
 
Hecox would find the net twice more himself thereafter, finishing a Matt Simpson pass into the upper left corner from long distance in the 19^th minute and burying one lower left off a Spencer Keable pass in the 31^st minute. Keable would assist on freshman Ebenezer Eshun's goal just four and a half minutes later to make the score 5-0.
 
Falcone knocked an Ali Macchiarelli corner kick home in the 38^th minute for his second goal of the contest to give the Panthers a 6-0 halftime lead; the home side largely played possession soccer the rest of the way with Macchiarelli providing the finishing touch with an 87^th minute tally, his fourth of the season.
 
Senior goalkeeper Adam Hoye-Simek made two saves in the shutout. The Panthers outshot the Fighting Tigers by a 28-10 margin. ACPHS will be back in action Saturday, hosting St. Joseph's (Brooklyn) at 3:00 pm in Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action; the match will be the second half of a women's/men's doubleheader featuring the same two schools. That match will begin at 1:00 pm.