2008 Woodie Awards
Men and Women's Soccer Suffer Losses
Angela Gonzalez
Issue date: 10/7/05 Section: Sports
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The men's team faced the #1 ranked Lynn University on Sept. 28 and although they were unable to defeat the Fighting Knights, they still put up a valiant effort to the end.
Through the difficulties presented by a rain-soaked field, the Tars were able to hold off Lynn from scoring until the 25th minute when Lynn sent the ball in the goal past Rollins keeper Frazer Siddall.
An infuriated Siddall took out his aggression by grabbing Lynn's William Young and earning the Fighting Knights a penalty kick which they also rocketed in past Siddall. Only a short while later though, Rollins was awarded a penalty kick due to a foul on Lynn called after Ryan Dodds was taken down within the penalty box.
Senior forward Daniell Robertson blasted in the kick past Lynn's goalie tying up the game. With less than 10 minutes left in the first half, Lynn broke the tie off a free kick that was headed in by a Lynn player.
Rollins prevented Lynn from scoring until 23 minutes past halftime when the Fighting Knights passed the ball in past Siddall for the 3rd time. But less than a minute later, Dodds had another foul called within the penalty box allowing Robertson another attempt to keep the Tars in the game.
He was successful and brought the score to 3-2 with Lynn up by one. The men fought furiously until the end but were unable to bring the score to a tie. Lynn sunk another goal in taking the win out of reach for the Tars and giving Lynn the 4-2 lead. Overall, the match had 8 yellow cards: Rollins-3, Lynn-5 and 19 fouls; Siddall managed 4 saves from the 8 shots-on-goal and the team had 8 shots for the game, 3 of which were saved by the Lynn keeper.
The men's team was far more fortuitous the following Saturday when they traveled to Ft. Lauderdale to take on Nova Southeastern. They won 2-1 with goals earned from the recently back-in-action, Chris Cerroni and junior Christopher Chafin. The men's team now has a 6-3-0 (SSC 3-1-0) record for the season and look to play again against Baker at home on Friday, October 7th.
On the other side of the coin, the women's soccer team suffered 2 regrettable losses when they matched up against Lynn (now 5-6-0) & Palm Beach Atlantic (now 10-3-0).
On Friday night, the women were set up for a victory against the Lady Fighting Knights with a 6-3-0 season record coming in and the home field advantage. With a pretty slow-paced game in tow, there was no scoring until it seemed Lynn had the first goal but later showed they were offsides and negated the goal.