BUCKHANNON, W. Va. – The Concord University men's soccer team scored three second-half goals but came up short in a 4-3 defeat at West Virginia Wesleyan Wednesday afternoon in a Mountain East Conference game at Cebe Ross Field.
Trailing 3-0, Concord (1-4-2, 0-4-1 MEC) netted its first goal in the 55
th minute as freshman forward
Louis Cole scored his second goal of the season on assists from junior midfielder
Ricardo Chinea-Pegler and freshman forward
Joel Walker.
Just over 10 minutes later in the 66
th minute, freshman midfielder
Tomas Kelly took advantage of a counter attack as he slotted a shot into the left corner to cut the margin in half. The goal came after CU's defense stopped a Wesleyan (2-1-2, 1-1-2 MEC) attack as freshman defender Garrett Boucher assisted on the goal.
WVWC opened up a 4-2 lead in the 78
th minute, however, CU had an immediate answer 65 seconds later.
Kelly wasted no time in recording his first career brace as he received a pass from freshman forward
Vancy Ruiz-Andaluz and beat the Bobcats' goalkeeper for the second time in the game.
Each team had a final chance within the last 10 minutes as freshman defender
Alex Harris took a potential goal off the line. In the 88
th minute, senior midfielder
Michael Shelor had a shot saved.
WVWC outshot Concord 18-10. Each team had 10 corner kicks.
Four of the five shots for Kelly were on goal as he accounted for half of CU's shots on target. Freshman goalkeepers
Keegan Grant and
Tommy Smith combined to make five saves in the game as each played a half.
Wesleyan's Hunter Dierlam recorded a hat trick as he scored the first three goals of the game.
The Mountain Lions are off until September 25 when they host Alderson Broaddus at 1:00 p.m. at the YMCA Cline Complex in Beckley.
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