Men's Soccer Loses to #4 MVCC
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Cayuga Community College (,) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Mohawk Valley Community College (,) | 3 | 0 | 3 |
The Cayuga Men's soccer team traveled to Mohawk Community College in Utica NY. The weather held off for both teams to get the game in considering both women's teams had a lightning delay at the end of their first half.
When the game kicked off, Cayuga started working hard to gain possession and got on the score board first. A long ball came from the Spartan keeper Bior Ajak who found Jacob Pritchard, who then flicked it on for Captain Will Backhouse. Backhouse then dribbled past the Mohawk defense to place the ball past the oncoming Mohawk Keeper Brenon Brower for Cayuga to go 1-0 up in the 12th minute of the first half. Mohawk came very close to tying it up but Spartan keeper Bior Ajak came up with some big saves.
Mohawk then tied it up from a corner kick when Chris Buck headed home from an unchallenged header from 10 yards out with 25:46 minutes into the match. Mohawk then went 2-1 up with 18 minutes remaining in the first half, when #2 Abraham Morales hit a rocket from 25 yards out but Cayuga keeper Bior Ajak came up with a top class save to push it onto the post but the deflection went straight to unmarked #4 Admir Ramic to pass it into the empty net. The Spartans held off Mohawks advances with Cayuga keeper making 8 saves in the first half.
Mohawk's #13 Dave Broedel finished off the scoring for MVCC in the 56th minute of the game to push the contest out of reach for the Spartans. After the final whistle Coach Wynne had this to say, " We dominated the first 20 minutes of the game with some good possession and movement off the ball. I have to say we really need to continue the intensity from the start of the game until the end of the game and not just 25 minutes. One of our best players today was our goalkeeper Bior Ajak with a total of 17 saves, he really came up big for us. We now have to regroup and get ourselves back on the horse for the game against Jefferson on Thursday the 13th of September".
The Spartans move to 1-2 overall in Region III play and 1-0 in MSAC Conference play.