FAIRFAX, Va. – The University of Dayton men's soccer team defeated VCU on Sunday afternoon, 4-1, winning the 2015 Atlantic 10 Tournament title and earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

This is the first A-10 Championship since 2009 when Dayton won the regular season title and the first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2008.

Dayton is now 13-5-3 on the season.

KEY STATS
• In the first half, Dayton out-shot VCU 9-4 and put three on target. The Flyers finished the game with 22 shots, 10 on goal, and allowed just nine and three on goal to the Rams.
• Senior Kissima Bojang's goal in the 15^th minute was his second in as many games in the A-10 tournament. Junior James Haupt's assist on the same goal was his sixth of the season, second most for the Flyers.
• This is the seventh game for UD this season in which the Flyers scored four or more goals.
• Sophomore Oliver Hansen had a save in 31 minutes of action before junior Justin Saliba took over and had a save in 59 minutes of play in goal.
• Haupt led the team with five shots while senior Amass Amankona and senior Maik Schoonderwoerd had four shots each.
 
DAYTON GOALS
• 15^th Minute: Senior Kissima Bojang (5^th goal of season) drilled a missile from 25-yards out off the layoff pass from junior James Haupt, giving Dayton the initial lead. (Dayton 1, VCU 0)
• 60^th Minute: Senior Alex Amankwaah (2^nd goal of season) directed his free kick to the back post and the curling shot bounced past the VCU keeper. (Dayton 2, VCU 0)
• 72^nd Minute: Senior Maik Schoonderwoerd (10^th goal of season) placed sophomore Nick Hagenkord's cross to the left side of goal. (Dayton 3, VCU 1)
• 79^th Minute: Senior Carlos Sendin (4^th goal of season) headed home the corner kick from Amankwaah to put Dayton on top by three goals. (Dayton 4, VCU 1)
 
VCU GOAL
• 71^st Minute: Junior Dakota Barnathan headed home the cross from Jorge Herranz, cutting the Dayton lead to one. (Dayton 2, VCU 1)
 
ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM
Dayton - #10 Kissima Bojang
Dayton - #11 James Haupt
Dayton - #16 Amass Amankona (Most Outstanding Player)
Dayton - #17 Carlos Sendin
VCU - #3 Dennis Castillo
VCU - #15 R.J. Roberts
VCU - #20 Jorge Herranz
VCU - #56 Pierre Gardan
Fordham - #7 Jannik Loebe
Rhode Island - #11 Carlo Davids
Rhode Island - #20 Dominik Richter

UP NEXT
The Flyers will now move on to the 2015 NCAA Tournament and will find out their opponent during Monday's selection show at 1 p.m.