BOX SCORE WEST HAVEN, Conn. – A pair of late goals in the final five minutes helped Post pull away from the New Haven men's soccer team 5-2 on Tuesday afternoon. Sophomore Pedro Aparicio (Lisbon, Portugal/Liceu de São João do Estoril) scored his first goal of the season early in the first half, and junior Alessandro Pappalardo (Rome, Italy/Stamford) scored early in the second half for New Haven. Freshman Jon Calvo (Vitoria, Spain/Olabide Ikastola) and sophomore Juan Felipe Tobon (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) each registered their first assists of the season.

Post (7-1-3) outshot New Haven 18-11 in the game, while the Chargers (3-6-1) held a 6-4 advantage in corner kicks.

Post threatened at the five-minute mark when the Eagles threaded a pass through the middle for a clean break in, but senior Stefano Lorusso (Auckland, New Zealand/Sacred Heart College) came out off the line and made a sliding stop on the breakaway.

The Chargers grabbed the game's first goal in the 10th minute off a set piece. Calvo served a corner kick across to the far side where it was headed in beautifully by Aparicio just inside the left post to put the Chargers on top 1-0.

However, the lead was short lived as the Eagles knotted the game at one just over a minute later as Phillimon Bedard-Khalid put home his own rebound from in close after his initial shot was blocked to quickly tie the score.

Lorusso made one of his three first half saves with a diving stop in the 29th minute, keeping the score tied going into halftime.

The second half started with a flurry of three goals in the first eight minutes that allowed Post to take a 3-2 lead.

Post got the scoring spree started in the 48th minute as Keshane Bedward put a low left-footed shot into the bottom left corner from just outside the top of the box for the 2-1 lead.

Pappalardo provided a quick answer for the Chargers just four minutes later in the 52nd minute, burying a shot in the bottom right corner off a Tobon assist to retie the game 2-2.

The Eagles quickly retook the lead just 1:21 later when Bedward found Sergio Diaz who directed a shot low into the middle of the goal.  

Sean Skeens (Auckland, New Zealand/Westlake Boys) and David Peteri (Rotterdam, Netherlands/Erasmiaans Gymnasium) nearly retied the game with golden chances in the 58th minute with quick, successive chances from inside the goal box off a corner kick, but both were stopped.

Aparicio came up big on the defensive end, knocking the ball away on what appeared to be a clean breakaway attempt for the Eagles in the 62nd minute.

Eventually Post put the game away with a pair of insurance goals in the final five minutes, the first of which came in the 86th minute off a corner kick, and the next coming with just 50 seconds remaining on Diaz's second tally of the game.

The Chargers will wrap up their three-game homestand this Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. when they host Saint Michael's in a Northeast-10 Conference match.