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MSOCCER: Team falls to .500 with loss to WashU
by Ian Cutler
Sports Editor
Sports | 10/21/08
Posted online at 4:07 AM EST on 10/21/08
For the seventh straight game and eighth time this season, the men's soccer team failed to score more than one goal in a game when it suffered a 2-1 loss at No. 21 Washington University in St. Louis last Sunday.
The Judges fell to 6-6-2 overall with the loss and 0-2-2 in conference play, including a 1-1 tie at the University of Chicago last Friday.
During the second half of the game against WashU, Luke Teece '12 suffered a concussion when Teece and a Bears player banged heads while going for a loose ball, coach Mike Coven said.
According to Coven, Teece stayed behind in a St. Louis hospital Sunday night with assistant coach Gabe Margolis, while the team traveled back to Waltham following the game. Coven said that all test results on Teece were negative, revealing no structural damage to his face.
WashU got on the board in the 11th minute when senior Cliff Goldkind nailed a one-timer into the net off a crossing pass from sophomore Nick Wibar from 20 yards out.
In the 33rd minute, junior forward John Hengel, the Bears' leading scorer, nailed a breakaway goal for his seventh of the season, giving WashU a 2-0 halftime advantage.
Brandeis had a defensive approach coming into the game and started with four defenders, five midfielders and just one forward, but after going down 2-0, coach Mike Coven decided to add two more forwards to his lineup, going with three defenders, four midfielders and three forwards.
The Judges struck back early in the second half when midfielder Jamie Batista '10 struck his first goal of the season in the 55th minute off a give-and-go pattern with midfielder Billy Murphy '10.
The Judges stayed with the Bears throughout the second half, evening the shot total at eight for the final 45 minutes, but could not get over the one-goal hump that has plagued them in the middle stretch of their season.
"It's not what we wanted as far as results go," defender Kevin Murphy '09 said. "But as for the way the team played, it's the best we've played since the beginning of the season, so hopefully we can take that out of it and get some [University Athletic Association] wins."
The Judges fell to 6-6-2 overall with the loss and 0-2-2 in conference play, including a 1-1 tie at the University of Chicago last Friday.
During the second half of the game against WashU, Luke Teece '12 suffered a concussion when Teece and a Bears player banged heads while going for a loose ball, coach Mike Coven said.
According to Coven, Teece stayed behind in a St. Louis hospital Sunday night with assistant coach Gabe Margolis, while the team traveled back to Waltham following the game. Coven said that all test results on Teece were negative, revealing no structural damage to his face.
WashU got on the board in the 11th minute when senior Cliff Goldkind nailed a one-timer into the net off a crossing pass from sophomore Nick Wibar from 20 yards out.
In the 33rd minute, junior forward John Hengel, the Bears' leading scorer, nailed a breakaway goal for his seventh of the season, giving WashU a 2-0 halftime advantage.
Brandeis had a defensive approach coming into the game and started with four defenders, five midfielders and just one forward, but after going down 2-0, coach Mike Coven decided to add two more forwards to his lineup, going with three defenders, four midfielders and three forwards.
The Judges struck back early in the second half when midfielder Jamie Batista '10 struck his first goal of the season in the 55th minute off a give-and-go pattern with midfielder Billy Murphy '10.
The Judges stayed with the Bears throughout the second half, evening the shot total at eight for the final 45 minutes, but could not get over the one-goal hump that has plagued them in the middle stretch of their season.
"It's not what we wanted as far as results go," defender Kevin Murphy '09 said. "But as for the way the team played, it's the best we've played since the beginning of the season, so hopefully we can take that out of it and get some [University Athletic Association] wins."
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