Dartmouth Men's Soccer Knocks Out Bradley, 2-1

Friday, September 17

Peoria, Ill.

8:30 PM

Dartmouth College

Bradley

Dartmouth Men's Soccer Knocks Out Bradley, 2-1

9/17/2010 10:59:00 PM | Men's Soccer

By: Dartmouth

BOXSCORE

PEORIA, Ill. - The Dartmouth men's soccer team capitalized on defensive miscues and locked down late to take a 2-1 victory at Bradley this evening.

Dartmouth (3-1) outshot Bradley (3-2-1), 14-10, putting two shots on goal and scoring on both of them. The Big Green was not rattled after a Bradley goal early in the second half, responding with two scores less than six minutes apart to take the lead.

The Big Green started the first half off with most of the offensive opportunities, including a flurry of three shots in just over two minutes. Aaron Gaide (Avon, Conn.) had a scoring chance in the 27^th minute but his shot was blocked. Dartmouth had three more attempts go high or wide of the goal to just one for Bradley for the balance of the half.

The Big Green outshot the Braves, 7-3, in the first half and neither team put a shot on goal in the period.

Bradley got the scoring started in the game with a goal in the 53^rd minute to go up 1-0. Tommy Fritze scored his second goal of the season on a header off a throw-in by Bobby Smith.

Each team had a shot blocked within the 60^th minute and Dartmouth kept pushing and was rewarded with the equalizer in the 67^th minute. Less than two minutes after checking into the game, senior Walker Linares (Santa Cruz, Calif.) made good on one of his trademark long throw-ins. Linares put the ball in the box and Bradley keeper Kyle Orne dropped it allowing freshman Colin Skelly (Wrightstown, Pa.) to capitalize and put one home for his first collegiate goal and a 1-1 tie.

Dartmouth got the go-ahead goal just six minutes later in the 73^rd minute, when sophomore Kevin Dzierzawski (Oakland Twp., Mich.) converted off another Bradley mistake, firing one past Orne after a failed clearance to put his team up 2-1.

Bradley pushed for the equalizer as time ran down and sophomore Sean Donovan (Burr Ridge, Ill.) came up with his lone save of the game on a Christian Meza shot after a Braves' corner kick in the 84^th minute. The Braves put all they had into the final 10 minutes, earning four corner kicks and taking four shots during the span. Dartmouth's defense held tight and withstood the flurry, however, for the 2-1 win.

Dartmouth is back in action on Sunday, Sept. 19 when it faces #14 Creighton at 12 p.m. (CST) in its final game of the Bradley tournament.