Offense Comes Alive as Dartmouth Tops Rival Vermont, 3-2

Wednesday, October 6

Burlington, Vt.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Vermont

Offense Comes Alive as Dartmouth Tops Rival Vermont, 3-2

10/6/2010 7:11:00 PM | Men's Soccer

By: Dartmouth

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Three different players scored goals as the Dartmouth men's soccer team got a critical victory at regional rival Vermont, 3-2, this afternoon.

With the win, Dartmouth (5-3-1) snapped a two-game winless streak, having tied UMass and lost at Princeton last week. Vermont dropped to 6-3-3 with the loss.

The Big Green showed its mettle in the win, twice coming back from a deficit and scoring two goals just 47 seconds apart and in the final seven minutes of the game to take the victory.

The game was fairly even, though Dartmouth held an advantage in shots, 13-9, and corner kicks, 7-4. Senior Lyman Missimer (The Woodlands, Texas) made one save for his first win of the season while Vermont's Xan Rousselle made three.

The first seven minutes of the game were as action-packed as the last, as Vermont took a quick 1-0 lead in just the third minute of play. Nick O'Neill scored on a header off a flick pass from Yannick Lewis after a throw-in by Sean Sweeney.

Dartmouth answered right back to tie it, 1-1, in the seventh minute when senior Aaron Gaide (Avon, Conn.) scored his first goal off the season with a low shot past Rousselle. Classmate Austin Bowers (Old Greenwich, Conn.) got the assist after playing a through ball to Gaide.

Vermont took the lead back, 2-1, in the 31^st minute when Lewis finished the play off a free kick by Juan Peralta from 30 yards out. The Catamounts held on to take that advantage into halftime.

The teams continued to battle in the second half and the game looked perilously close to ending in Vermont's favor. However, Dartmouth's captains took the team on their shoulders and made the big plays when they counted most. Senior co-captan Daniel Keat (Wellington, New Zealand) scored his first goal of the season in the 83^rd minute when the ball came to him off a failed Vermont clear. He blasted a shot past Rousselle to tie the game at 2-2.

With the game tied the Big Green kept the pressure on after the restart. Senior co-captain Andrew Olsen (Norwell, Mass) sent a cross from just outside the box into the goalmouth where junior Maarten van Ess (Marlborough, Mass.) was waiting. van Ess headed the ball in for the 3-2 lead in the 84^th minute - just 47 seconds after Keat's goal.

The Dartmouth men return home to Burnham Field this Saturday night when they host Ivy foe Yale at 7 p.m.