NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Norwich men's soccer snapped its two-game skid by shutting out Johnson & Wales 2-0 at Howard Field on Saturday afternoon.

The Cadets (4-4-1 overall, 1-2-0 GNAC) needed less than 10 minutes to find the back of the net when Anthony Amell gathered his own rebound and buried the ball past Johnson & Wales senior goalkeeper Joe Ferraro to give NU a 1-0 lead at the 8:54 mark.

Less than three minutes later sophomore Garrett Shufelt found senior Roger Motaze making a run on the wing. Motaze beat his defender and then fired a shot into the upper-90 far post to increase the lead to 2-0.

As the first half went on both teams started to get physical, resulting in two yellow cards issued to Johnson & Wales and one for Norwich.

With the two-goal lead, Norwich held its defenders back for a majority of the second half and Johnson & Wales (1-6-1 overall, 1-2-0 GNAC) was never able to mount much of an attack as the Wildcats only forced Norwich freshman goalkeeper Alex Toomey to make three saves.

Ferraro had eight stops for Johnson & Wales.

Norwich travels to Castleton on Wednesday at 7 p.m for a non-conference tilt.