YAKIMA  — Davis scored two second-half goals on a rainy Tuesday night at  Zaepfel Stadium to get revenge against archrival Eisenhower and solidify  its hold on first place in the CBBN.

Carlos  Benitez scored the go-ahead goal 10 minutes into the second half and  Lino Stevenson put the game away on a through ball from Jaime Alcocer in  stoppage time to give the Pirates a 2-0 victory — their fifth in a row.

With  the win, Davis improved to 7-1 in league play (9-2-1 overall) — a full  game ahead of Wenatchee and Eastmont with four league games remaining.

“This  was a breakthrough win for us,” said Stevenson, a junior transfer who  earned first-team all-league honors at West Valley last season. “We  really needed this one.”

The  Cadets (4-4 CBBN, 5-5-2 overall), who won the first matchup 2-1 on  March 31, put together a flurry of scoring chances early in the first  half before the Davis defense found its footing.

From the 20th minute  on, center backs Aiden Munoz and Osmar Perez neutralized all-conference  forward Sergio Mora and guided the Pirates to their sixth shutout of  the season.

“After  we scored, we just decided to keep going strong and shut it down like  we always do,” Munoz said. “Even though we were ahead, it was still 0-0  in our minds. We just kept playing hard and never let down.”

Benitez put the Pirates on the board in the 50th minute  after taking a rebound from the Ike goalkeeper and putting the ball  away from the top of the box. Mora nearly equalized in the 78th on  a curving shot from 25 yards out, but three minutes later, Alcocer sent  a perfectly timed through ball to Stevenson, who outran the Cadet  defense and buried his third goal of the season.

“That  first goal boosted our confidence a lot, but we felt like we could get  another one,” Stevenson said. “We just kept pushing to the end and  finished it out.”