SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Three years ago, Azusa Pacific head coach Phil Wolf led the Cougars to a GSAC championship in his first season as a collegiate head coach, finishing 9-1 in conference-play.

He had one blemish, though, on an otherwise perfect season—a 2-1 loss to older brother Dave, the all-time winningest coach at Westmont. In fact, in 3 GSAC meetings since the younger Wolf took the Cougar reigns, the older Wolf has gotten the better of him all 3 times—all by 2-1 scores.

All is forgotten.

The NAIA's No. 3-ranked Cougars completely dominated the field, and the younger Wolf finally got the better of big brother, and this one couldn't be sweeter—a 4-1 win in Santa Barbara that puts the Cougars in position to claim its fifth GSAC title and first since 2001.

"It was a good win," said Wolf. "The guys played really well and we dominated the game. Hopefully, we can continue to play this well as we head into the playoffs."

The win keeps the Cougars unbeaten and moves them to 14-0-1 overall, 8-0 GSAC. It also moves their school-record unbeaten streak to 17 straight dating back to the final 2 matches of last year.

Westmont falls to 8-5-1, 3-3-1.

Westmont out-shot the Cougars, 18-9, but just 8 of the Warriors' shot were on goal. Julian Cottrell got the call in net and silenced the Warriors for nearly 72 minutes collecting 7 saves in the process.

Brandon Stirm got things rolling in the 19th minute with his fifth goal of the season. Ian Leibbrandt played a ball across the goal mouth and to a waiting Stirm, who one-timed with the inside of his foot and into the net for a 1-0 Cougar lead.

Twenty minutes later, Ferguson Agwu gave the Cougars a 2-0 lead with a beautiful goal off a corner kick. Dustin McBride sent a perfect ball into the box that Agwu volleyed out of the air and into the right upper-90 for his seventh of the season.

The Cougars upped the margin to 3-0 just 5 minutes into the second half when Andriy Budnyy netted his 15th of the season from 25 yards out past Warrior GK Logan Frank.

Budnyy then got into the mix in the 61st minute when he set up Kolt Callaway's fourth of the year from just inside the box on the right side to give the Cougars an insurmountable 4-0 advantage.

The Warriors got their goal in the 72nd minute from Kevin Saiki.

But the day belonged to the Cougars, who now need just one more win Tuesday at Hope International to clinch no worse than a tie for the GSAC title.