Erie Commodores FC came from behind to beat Cleveland SC 4–3 in NPSL action on June 27, with A. Faye delivering a stunning eight-minute hat trick to turn the game on its head. J. Tovar Jaime opened the scoring for Cleveland, while an own goal and goals from S. Conolly and D. Sumner completed the visitors' tally in a wild back-and-forth contest.
Cleveland controlled the first half. Tovar Jaime broke the deadlock in the 34th minute to put the visitors ahead, and they looked comfortable heading toward the break. But a Cleveland own goal right at the stroke of halftime leveled the score at 1–1 and shifted the momentum entirely.
Faye — who had been booked early in the first half — took over after the interval. He struck in the 52nd minute to give Erie the lead, added a second just two minutes later, then completed his hat trick in the 60th minute to make it 4–1. The burst was devastating, and Cleveland looked shell-shocked. Tovar Jaime, already on a yellow card from the 50th minute, could do little to stem the tide.
Cleveland, to their credit, refused to fold. Conolly pulled one back in the 76th minute to make it 4–2, and Sumner — booked earlier in the second half — drove home a late goal in the 89