A brace from starlet Neymar helped Santos to a 6-1 thrashing of eight-man Ponte Preta in the Campeonato Paulista on Saturday.Neymar opened the scoring on 27 minutes before Ganso gave the home side a comfortable advantage seven minutes later.Uendel then cut the deficit to one in the 52nd minute, only for Ponte Preta to implode during the following half hour. Ferron found the back of his own net for the visitors, and Edu Dracena scored to give Santos a 4-1 lead.Cicinho was shown red on 63 minutes, shortly followed by Guilherme, while Dracena made it 5-1. Neymar’s second rounded out the scoring, but Renato Caja was also given his marching orders for Ponte Preta in the 82nd minute.