OMAHA, Neb. - Dion Acoff scored one goal and assisted the other to help the No. 2-ranked Creighton men's soccer team to 2-0 win over Evansville in the regular-season finale in front of 3,540 fans on Saturday night at Morrison Stadium. The victory gives Creighton a share of the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title, its 11th league championship in program history.

Creighton, which finished the regular-season unbeaten at home (9-0-0), improved to 16-2-0 on the year and with a 5-1-0 MVC mark shared the Valley title with Missouri State.  The Bluejays will be the second seed in next week's State Farm MVC Tournament hosted by Creighton at Morrison Stadium.

The Bluejays got on the board in the 14th minute when Acoff's crossing pass was deflected by an Evansville defender to Bruno Castro at the top of the 18-yard box.  Castro unleashed a shot and beat UE keeper Eric Teppen to his left to give the Jays a 1-0 lead.  The goal was Castro's fifth of the season.

Acoff added an insurance goal in the 67th minute, when he finished a beautiful run after Jose Gomez sent a perfectly placed through ball between UE defenders.  Acoff slotted his shot into the back of the net from about 12 yards for his third goal of the season.

The two-goal lead gave first-year Bluejay coach Elmar Bolowich the opportunity to sub in fifth-year goalkeeper Bryan Hoie for the final 10 minutes in net. Hoie had played just over nine minutes total in his first five seasons with the team.  Hoie didn't face a shot in his 10 minutes on the pitch, combining with fellow fifth-year senior Brian Holt for the school-record setting 14th shutout of the season.  Holt stopped one shot, while senior Jace Peters kept a ball from crossing the line with a header early in the first half.

The Bluejays are 9-0-0 at home this year, posting a school-record eight shutouts in Omaha.  CU has outscored opponents 20-1 in its nine home matches this year.

Evansville, which played the finaly 3:50 of the match with 10 players after a red card to Jarrett Robbins, finished its season winless in league play at 0-5-1.  The Purple Aces final 2011 record is 5-11-1.

The State Farm MVC Tournament will begin on Wednesday at 3 pm, though Creighton won't play until Friday's semifinal round.  The Bluejays will play the winner of Wednesday's first round game between Bradley and SIU Edwardsville.  CU will play its semifinal match this Friday at 6 pm.

NOTES: Creighton honored its seven seniors - Kris Clark, Andrew Duran, Ethan Finlay, Bryan Hoie, Brian Holt, Greg Jordan, Jace Peters - in a ceremony before the match ... Finlay and Holt have started all 73 matches they've appeared in ... CU is 21-3-1 all-time against UE and 14-1-0 in Omaha ... CU has now won 11 MVC regular-season titles, this is its second straight championship and its fifth in the last six years ... The 11 regular-season titles adds to Creighton's own record, no other Valley school has won more than four ... The crowd of 3,540 was the second-largest November crowd in school history, trailing only CU's first ever NCAA Tournament match when it hosted SMU on Nov. 21, 1992 and drew 3,860 to Tranquility Park.

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