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Stalemate: Men's Soccer Ties Loyola For Fourth Straight Year
September 19, 2003 | Men's Soccer
Sept. 19, 2003
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PRINCETON, N.J. - Darren Spicer scored his second goal in two games and the Princeton men's soccer team held Loyola to just one shot on goal as the two teams battled to a 1-1 tie at the Princeton Invitational.
The Greyhounds scored first at 34:14 in the first half when senior Jay Joyce connected on a pass by sophomore Nate Lyden. Princeton responded within the next two minutes as freshman Jame Wunsch set up Spicer to tie the game, 1-1, at 35:43. Neither team scored for the rest of the half but the Tigers dominated the field, out-shooting the Greyhounds 8-2. Loyola's goalkeeper, sophomore Dan Mulcahy, made all five of his saves in the first half.
"In the first half, we kept Loyola pinned down and created six or seven good chances," head coach Jim Barlow said. "Usually when the other team scores first, it's a deflator, but we bounced right back. That shows a lot of character." But Loyola played a better second half, holding Princeton to zero shots while taking four of its own. Neither team could string together two solid halves and regulation ended at 1-1.
"We played well in the first half but struggled in the second to keep [Loyola] pinned down," Barlow said.
Princeton and Loyola played even throughout two overtimes and had each taken two shots as they entered the final seconds of the game. With just 24 seconds remaining in the second overtime, senior co-captain Gianfranco Tripicchio nearly won the game for the Tigers with a long shot that went over the goalkeeper's head and into the net. But officials ruled a handball and dismissed the goal as time ran out on the Tigers.
"It was a great game for both teams," Barlow said. "It never slowed down."
This is the fourth straight year that the two teams have tied each other and the overall series stands at 2-1-4 in favor of Loyola. Princeton holds a 1-1-1 record as it enters the final day of its home tournament on Sunday. The Tigers face Towson at 2:30 p.m. on Lourie-Love Field.