Soccer gets 1st win, ties UCR in OT
September 11, 2002
The Sacramento State men?s soccer team recorded their first win and their first tie of the season in last weekend?s two-game road trip.
The Hornet?s beat California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo 3?1 Friday at Mustang Stadium in a non?conference game, and stalemated with the University of California, Riverside 2?2 Sunday at UCR Soccer Field.
Friday?s victory provided the Hornets first three goals of the season. Mustang Mark Jones converted a penalty kick in the 7th minute.
In the 13th minute Hornet midfielder Justin Ancheta answered back with an unassisted goal that tied the game at one apiece.
Immediately following that score sophomore defender Brent Hamilton would provide the eventual game winning goal for the Hornets on a solo effort in the 17th minute.
The lights went out for Cal Poly in the 84th minute when senior defender Hjalti Krisjansson delivered a strike from 40 yards out.
Junior Goalkeeper Jeff Gibson earned his first career victory for the Hornets and finished the game with seven saves.
Ancheta and Hamilton also had career firsts, scoring the first goals of their Hornet careers.
Against Riverside, Sophomore forward Patrick Nelle gave the Hornets an early lead in the match with a goal in the 24th minute off of an assist from junior forward David Fraser.
The Highlanders responded in 58th minute when Ben Davies found an open Luc Harrington who slid the ball past Hornet goalkeeper Matt McDougall.
The Hornets would later regain the lead over URC in the 79th minute when Hornet freshman defender Utodi Madu scored his first goal on the collegiate level with a missile from 30 yards out.
Unfortunately for the Hornets the scoring did not stop there, as UCR?s Nick Supergan would send the match into overtime with his game-tying goal in the 86th minute.
Both teams endured a relatively quiet double-overtime period on their way to an eventual draw, leaving the Hornets record at an even 1?1?1.
“We played a better, more fundamentally sound game last week at Stanford,” Hornet coach Michael Linenberger said. “This game was really competitive because of Poly?s scrappy style of play and I was impressed with how hard the team worked.”
Sac State put up a season-high 20 shots on Cal Poly Sunday, ten of which were on goal.
Both goalies went the full 110 minutes as Hornet freshman goalkeeper Matt McDougall had two saves, while his UCR counterpart Alex Keogh had eight saves.
“The difference in last weeks performance is that we finished better. I hope that next week we can combine the soccer that we played against Stanford and our finishes from this weekend when Irvine comes next week,” Linenberger said.
The men?s team will make their home debut on Friday, at 1 p.m. when the team faces off against the University of California, Irvine at the newly renovated Hornet Soccer Field.
