PARKLAND, Wash. - Two goals and an assist by Spencer Augustin sparked the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes, who remained co-leaders in the Northwest Conference men's soccer race, past the visiting George Fox University Bruins in a high-scoring affair Saturday afternoon here at the PLU soccer field. 

Augustin, who has scored four goals in the last three matches to take over the team lead with eight, provided the first and last goals of the match and kept the Lutes deadlocked with Whitworth University and the University of Puget Sound atop the conference standings.  PLU is 7-2 overall and 4-1 in the NWC, while George Fox is now 2-6-1 overall and 0-4-1 in the league. 

Augustin opened the scoring at the 16:42 mark, knocking home a cross from Surafel Wodajo, who also assisted on the next goal with a corner kick that was headed into the net by Greg Noll at 37:09.  Wodajo has nine assists on the season and 30 in his career, tied with Jay Pettit (2002-05) for the PLU career lead in that category.

Richard Renteria netted his first goal at 43:20, with an assist going to Derek Johnson, to make it 3-0 at the half.  Early in the second half, the Lutes made it 4-0 on Brendan Cohen's first goal, with Augustin getting the assist.

George Fox finally got its offense going and scored consecutive goals to cut the deficit in two.  The first came at 54:56 off a free kick by Myles Sorokovsky that sailed untouched into the goal, his second score of the season.  At 76:20, Brennan Altringer put a corner kick into the box, where Luke Dickens sent a shot toward the goal that was blocked by PLU keeper Joe Rayburn but not controlled.  Sawyer Meek knocked in the rebound for his second goal of the year.

Augustin closed the scoring at 82:55, following up his own shot that was deflected by Bruin goalie Elliott Davis.

George Fox had a 23-17 advantage in shots and put 13 of those on frame, forcing 11 saves by Rayburn.  The Lutes had 17 total shots and eight on goal, finishing five of them, leaving three saves to be made by Davis.

NEXT:  George Fox goes across town to take on Puget Sound Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ... Pacific Lutheran hosts defending conference champion Pacific University at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.