#18 Dartmouth's Late Rally Sends Princeton Packing, 4-2

Saturday, October 3

HANOVER, N.H.

6:30 PM

Dartmouth College

PRINCETON

#18 Dartmouth's Late Rally Sends Princeton Packing, 4-2

10/3/2009 10:45:00 PM | Men's Soccer

By: Dartmouth

Boxscore

HANOVER, N.H. - The 18^th ranked Dartmouth men's soccer team scored three goals in the final 15 minutes to take a 4-2 win over Princeton in the Ivy opener for both teams.

Dartmouth improved to 6-2-1, 1-0 Ivy while Princeton dropped to 4-4, 0-1 Ivy. The teams duked it out for 90 minutes amidst the pouring rain at Burnham Field, with a slippery surface making every attack dangerous.

The conditions proved a difference maker just seven minutes into the game when Lucky Mkosana picked up a through ball from Adam Rice (Manalapan, N.J.). Mkosana had Princeton keeper Sean Lynch beat, and fired over him but the ball literally stopped in the mud just shy of the goalmouth.

Lynch truly kept Princeton in the game, making four first-half saves. He couldn't stop Mkosana in the 34^th, however, on a very similar play. Senior Craig Henderson (Wellington, New Zealand) sent the ball up and it deflected off Lynch. Mkosana picked up the ball and went over the keeper, chipping it in for his third goal of the season and a 1-0 lead.

It was Princeton who stole momentum back late in the first, however, when Matt Sanner beat Dartmouth keeper Sean Donovan (Burr Ridge, Ill.) one-on-one, leaving the rookie down and an open goal for the Tigers to even it up, 1-1 in the 41^st. Daniel Keat (Wellington, New Zealand) nearly had the go-ahead goal a minute later but Lynch came up with the stop. The Big Green finished the half with an 11-2 shot advantage.

It took some time for both teams to get going in the second, with fewer dangerous chances than the first with just one attempt, a wide shot by Henderson for Dartmouth, in the first 20 minutes. The Tigers put the pressure on, however, forcing Donovan to make two saves in the 72^nd and 75^th minutes, but the rookie stood his ground.

The teams remained tied at 1-1 until Dartmouth junior Andrew Olsen (Norwell, Mass.) broke the stalemate and opened the floodgates with a goal in the 76^th minute off a feed from Mkosana. Olsen hammered it to the far corner from close range on the left side for a 2-1 lead.

After a Keat corner kick in the 86^th minute, Teo Larsson-Sax (Kalmar, Sweden) scored his first collegiate goal also assisted by Austin Bowers (Old Greenwich, Conn.), giving the Big Green a 3-1 insurance lead. Henderson followed with an off-balance beauty in the 88^th minute also assisted by Bowers to clinch the 4-1 lead and victory.

Princeton's Benjamin Burton managed a late score after a scramble in the box at 89:05, making Larsson-Sax's goal the game-winner in the 4-2 final.

The Big Green outshot Princeton, 19-7. Lynch made five saves in goal for the Tigers while Dartmouth's Donovan had three stops in goal.

Dartmouth starts a stretch of three-straight road games, heading to Ivy foe Yale for a 4:30 p.m. start next Saturday, Oct. 10.