Saturday, October 17
Azusa, CA
1 p.m.
California Baptist University
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Azusa Pacific
COUGARS CLAW LANCERS
10/18/2009 2:30:00 AM | Men's Soccer
AZUSA, Calif. --- The NAIA's No. 4-ranked Azusa Pacific scored two second half goals to race past California Baptist, 3-0, on an unusually warm Saturday afternoon.
The loss drops the Lancers to 2-6-4 overall, 1-5-1 (4 points) GSAC, while the Cougars, who snapped their two-game losing skid with the win, improve to 12-2, 5-2 (15 points). It is the Cougars' eighth straight win over CBU.
The Cougars out-shot the Lancers, 14-10, including a slim, 8-6, margin in the first half. Dan Kelly made six of his seven saves in the first half, but he couldn't do anything about the Cougars' first goal.
CBU was dispossessed in the middle of the park, and the Cougars played a ball down the left flank. Davis Delamarter then whipped a ball into box where an unmarked Nathan Nienhuis headed in the game's first goal in the 27th minute.
Azusa Pacific carried that lead into the intermission, and then turned to Alex Earl for a pair of insurance tallies in the second half.
The first goal came in the 59th minute. A long ball was sent into the Lancers' end and sailed over the head of a Lancer defender. Cito Soriano ran onto the ball down the left side and played it back into the box where an onrushing and unmarked Earl ran onto it and easily tucked it away to the far post to give the Cougars a 2-0 lead.
Earl then completed the scoring in the 75th minute when he scored from just four yards out, beating Kelly to a cross from Ashkon Banihashemi.
“We just got exposed by a very, very good team, one of the best in the nation,” said CBU Head Coach Ryan Jorden. “We have been solid defensively all season, but we just weren't today.”
The Lancers' best chance came in the 18th minute when Gabriel Gonzalez fired a shot that slipped through Cougar keeper Tyler Stromberg's hands but inched its way over the crossbar. Then, right before the Cougars got their third goal, Tim Wardell took a point-blank shot but hit it right at Stromberg, who corralled his sixth and final save of the day.
The Lancers now have three games remaining, and for all intents and purposes hold their playoff destiny in their hands as two of their final three games are against the bottom two teams in the conference. They are currently in ninth place in the GSAC, just two points behind Point Loma Nazarene for the eighth and final playoff spot. Meanwhile, the Sea Lions' three games are against teams in the top six of the GSAC.
CBU is in action next against Hope International (5-6-3, 0-5-1) Tuesday at 3 p.m.
The loss drops the Lancers to 2-6-4 overall, 1-5-1 (4 points) GSAC, while the Cougars, who snapped their two-game losing skid with the win, improve to 12-2, 5-2 (15 points). It is the Cougars' eighth straight win over CBU.
The Cougars out-shot the Lancers, 14-10, including a slim, 8-6, margin in the first half. Dan Kelly made six of his seven saves in the first half, but he couldn't do anything about the Cougars' first goal.
CBU was dispossessed in the middle of the park, and the Cougars played a ball down the left flank. Davis Delamarter then whipped a ball into box where an unmarked Nathan Nienhuis headed in the game's first goal in the 27th minute.
Azusa Pacific carried that lead into the intermission, and then turned to Alex Earl for a pair of insurance tallies in the second half.
The first goal came in the 59th minute. A long ball was sent into the Lancers' end and sailed over the head of a Lancer defender. Cito Soriano ran onto the ball down the left side and played it back into the box where an onrushing and unmarked Earl ran onto it and easily tucked it away to the far post to give the Cougars a 2-0 lead.
Earl then completed the scoring in the 75th minute when he scored from just four yards out, beating Kelly to a cross from Ashkon Banihashemi.
“We just got exposed by a very, very good team, one of the best in the nation,” said CBU Head Coach Ryan Jorden. “We have been solid defensively all season, but we just weren't today.”
The Lancers' best chance came in the 18th minute when Gabriel Gonzalez fired a shot that slipped through Cougar keeper Tyler Stromberg's hands but inched its way over the crossbar. Then, right before the Cougars got their third goal, Tim Wardell took a point-blank shot but hit it right at Stromberg, who corralled his sixth and final save of the day.
The Lancers now have three games remaining, and for all intents and purposes hold their playoff destiny in their hands as two of their final three games are against the bottom two teams in the conference. They are currently in ninth place in the GSAC, just two points behind Point Loma Nazarene for the eighth and final playoff spot. Meanwhile, the Sea Lions' three games are against teams in the top six of the GSAC.
CBU is in action next against Hope International (5-6-3, 0-5-1) Tuesday at 3 p.m.
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