Men's Soccer Southern Conference

SoCon Men's Soccer Results, Oct. 29, 2003

College of Charleston 5, Winthrop 0

ROCK HILL, SC- The Winthrop men's soccer team suffered its worst home loss since Oct. 14, 2000, a 6-0 loss to Liberty, falling to the College of Charleston 5-0, Wednesday evening.

The Cougars (10-3-2) took a 2-0 lead into halftime and never let up scoring three goals over a 20 minute span in the second half. Five different players scored goals.

"Its hard to look at the score," said Winthrop head coach Rich Posipanko. "It's very misleading because we played very well at times and had some chances. However, we used poor judgement defensively and were not able to finish some quality opportunities we had. But overall I thought it was an even game and thought they were the most balanced team we've played all year."

Ricardo D. Granados got the Cougars on the board in the 6th minute. Granados headed a ball into the net off a service from Matt Schindelholz. Drew Cavanagh also assisted on the play. Jeremy Gold made it 2-0 in the 39th minute off a corner kick. Sage Martina's corner found Gold wide open at the back of the net and his shot deflected off a defender into the net.

Winthrop's best opportunity in the first half came in the 36th minute from Michael Chumah, but goalkeeper Keith Wiggins was there to close the door. Wiggins finished the game with five saves to help the College of Charleston preserve its sixth straight shutout victory.

Troy Lesesne scored in the 64th minute. Steve Loverso served the ball into the box to Jeremy Gold, who dropped the ball back to Lesesne. Lesense placed the ball into the upper right corner for the goal. Ben Hollingsworth and Loverso added the next two goals.

There were opportunities for the Eagles to get on the board in the 61st minute when Vali Arnason's shot was blocked out of bounds at the goal line by a Cougar defender. Chumah had a shot that just went over the bar just seconds later off the corner kick. The College of Charleston finished with a 18-13 shot advantage.

Winthrop will wrap-up its Big South Conference schedule on Tuesday against Radford on the road at 7 p.m.

Clemson 3, Elon 2

CLEMSON, SC-Clemson scored two second-half goals as the Tigers defeated Elon 3-2 in a men's intercollegiate soccer match at Clemson, SC Wednesday night.

With the win, Clemson is now 7-7-2 overall, while Elon falls to 4-9-1 this season.

Clemson took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute as Borges scored on an unassisted goal. This was his fifth goal of the season. Elon tied the score at the 19:13 mark as Eric Sass scored his third goal
of the season. Daniel Merieda had the assist as he fed Sass the ball as he went driving down the left side.

James Georgeff scored in the 63rd minute as he picked up the ball on a defensive misclear and shot the ball in the net from 18 yards out.
Charlie Roberts scored Clemson's third goal of the evening as he scored from 12 yards out. Chase Hilgenbrinck sent the ball to Roberts from the center of the field on a reset. Roberts turned and fired a shot to the back of the net.

Eric Turnblom scored the Phoenix's second goal of the night. Turnblom rifled a 23-yard shot at the top of the arc in the upper left corner of the
goal.

Clemson will play at North Carolina Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Tigers' next action.