JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - Two first half goals by Carson-Newman's Dario Carrasco en route to a hat trick helped propel No. 1-seed Carson-Newman to a 4-1 win over No. 8-seed Newberry in the First Round of the 2005 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament. Carson-Newman bumps their record up to 17-1 as they jolted up to sixth in the national rankings while Newberry falls to 7-9-2 to close out the season.

Carrasco scored his first goal in the seventh minute sending a ball past Newberry's Bryan Linn on the high right hand side of the net from approximately 25 yards out. The teams battled back and forth for most of the first half until the 41st minute when Carrasco sent another ball into the net after dribbling past Linn who had come out to cut off the angle of the shot. Carrasco then dribbled past another Newberry defender who had come back to help Linn but Carrasco sent the ball into the net for his and Carson-Newman's second goal of the game.

The Eagles' Brad Cobbs was given a free kick off a Newberry foul and sent the ball into the back left corner of the net to give Carson-Newman a 3-0 lead in the 56th minute. Carrasco notched his hat trick just a few minutes later as he sent a header past Linn into the left side of the net off a high pass from Daniel Deaderick in the 63rd minute.

Newberry finally got on the board in the 66th minute as Jeffrey Taylor sent a header into the top right hand side of the net past Carson-Newman's Tyler Baldock.

Carson-Newman outshot the Indians in the match 21-11 while Newberry had 18 fouls to the Eagles' 15. Both teams had two corner kicks in the match.

Newberry closes out the 2005 season with the loss while Carson-Newman will head to Wingate, N.C., on Nov. 4th for the semifinals of the 2005 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament.