The Belmont Abbey men's soccer team suffered a 4-1 loss at Anderson this evening in Conference Carolinas action Wednesday night at the AU Soccer Field. Anderson improves to 7-1-1 overall and 3-1-1 in Conference Carolinas, while the Abbey dips to 4-4-1 overall and 2-3-0 in Conference Carolinas.

With the Trojans leading 1-0 at halftime, Paulo Passini wasted little time extending the margin to two goals. Passini made a great individual move to get around a Crusaders' defender in the box and his left-footed shot sailed past the diving keeper and found the back of the net.

The Crusaders cut the margin back to one goal midway through the first half with a score by James Lawrence Forbes, putting pressure on the Trojans. But Anderson responded to the threat a minute and a half later to put the game out of reach. Jorgen Hals scored on a right footer that crossed in front of the goal and snuck inside the far post.

Morten Thorsen added an insurance goal with two minutes remaining for the final three goal margin.

Anderson's Ben Jones fielded a cross from Hals at the 14:21 mark of the first half and hammered the ball past the Crusaders' keeper to give the Trojans a 1-0 edge.

Both teams had several first half shots that went wide, and each team had hard struck shots that were stopped by the opposing keeper. Lasse Sohrweide's shot midway through the half missed the mark, and Belmont Abbey's Devon Purslow fired a laser that was stopped by Anderson keeper Benjamin Pepion.