2008 Woodie Awards
Men's soccer loses winning streak, still claims home tourney title
By: Jason Jones
Issue date: 9/22/08 Section: Sports
The men's soccer team failed to advance their winning streak to four games this past weekend, but still managed to win their second straight tournament of the season.
After defeating the Indiana, Purdue and Fort Wayne Mastodons 2-0 on Friday afternoon, the Falcons failed to put away the Saint Francis Red Flash yesterday, losing 2-1.
"This is a disappointment, you know, for obvious reasons, we would've liked to be 4-3," Assistant Coach Ken White said.
Still, despite the loss yesterday, the Falcons managed to come out of the BGSU Invitational tournament as tournament champions. After each team finished the weekend with one win and one loss, the tournament was to be decided on goal differential. Bowling Green finished +1, Saint Francis finished even and IPFW finished -1, giving the Falcons the tournament crown.
The win gave the Falcons their first set of back-to-back tournament wins since 1997.
Friday's game saw the Falcons look the best they have all season. BG wore the IPFW defense down over the course of the game, watching it bend, before finally breaking in the 81st minute.
"I thought we did great, we kept them to zero and finally found a way to break through offensively," Head Coach Fred Thompson said.
Jacob Lawrence knocked in a lose ball to give the Falcons a 1-0 lead. The goal was the third straight goal for BG scored by Lawrence, who is quickly emerging as one of the Falcons' strongest players.
Moments later, in the 87th minute, Thomas McLean scored to slam the door shut on IPFW. The goal, which didn't seem to be a great importance at the time, would help BG achieve the +1 goal differential that won them the tournament two days later.
Against Saint Francis yesterday, the match turned out to be a much different story from Saturday. The second game of the weekend much more closely resembled the Falcons' first five games, as they fell behind early and weren't able to play catch up.
"We dug ourselves a deep hole, and they climbed out before we did," White said.
After defeating the Indiana, Purdue and Fort Wayne Mastodons 2-0 on Friday afternoon, the Falcons failed to put away the Saint Francis Red Flash yesterday, losing 2-1.
"This is a disappointment, you know, for obvious reasons, we would've liked to be 4-3," Assistant Coach Ken White said.
Still, despite the loss yesterday, the Falcons managed to come out of the BGSU Invitational tournament as tournament champions. After each team finished the weekend with one win and one loss, the tournament was to be decided on goal differential. Bowling Green finished +1, Saint Francis finished even and IPFW finished -1, giving the Falcons the tournament crown.
The win gave the Falcons their first set of back-to-back tournament wins since 1997.
Friday's game saw the Falcons look the best they have all season. BG wore the IPFW defense down over the course of the game, watching it bend, before finally breaking in the 81st minute.
"I thought we did great, we kept them to zero and finally found a way to break through offensively," Head Coach Fred Thompson said.
Jacob Lawrence knocked in a lose ball to give the Falcons a 1-0 lead. The goal was the third straight goal for BG scored by Lawrence, who is quickly emerging as one of the Falcons' strongest players.
Moments later, in the 87th minute, Thomas McLean scored to slam the door shut on IPFW. The goal, which didn't seem to be a great importance at the time, would help BG achieve the +1 goal differential that won them the tournament two days later.
Against Saint Francis yesterday, the match turned out to be a much different story from Saturday. The second game of the weekend much more closely resembled the Falcons' first five games, as they fell behind early and weren't able to play catch up.
"We dug ourselves a deep hole, and they climbed out before we did," White said.
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