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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Suffer Heartbreaker to Buckeyes, 3-2 (2 OT)
September 20, 2002 | Men's Soccer
Sept. 20, 2002
Bowling Green, Ohio - The Bowling Green men's soccer team dropped a heartbreaker in double overtime to visiting Ohio State on Friday afternoon, 3-2, at Cochrane Field. OSU's Matt McCune put the game-winner past Falcon goalie David DeGraff from the right side of the box at 108:20 of the second overtime period. Sasha Barber assisted on the goal.
OSU (4-3) began the seesaw battle early in the match when A.J. Weber scored on a header at just 3:54. He was assisted by Andy Rosenband and Eric Schwebach. Three more goals were scored in the first half.
From there, it was the Falcons who began to light up the scoreboard. BGSU knotted the score at 25:19 when freshman Robert Aouad netted his first collegiate goal from eight yards out, past OSU goalie Jason Wimmert. Paul Dhaliwal and Ben Monnette assisted. Then, just more than two minutes later, the Falcons took their first lead of the season off of the head of senior Matt Leardini (27:26), 2-1. Paul Seip and Eric Duda assisted on the goal. Bowling Green, which had scored just three goals in its first six games this season (540 minutes) had just scored two goals in 2:07 and had the momentum.
However, just before halftime, OSU struck to tie the game via a Kevin Nugent goal (42:34). Jason Ryan assisted. OSU outshot Bowling Green 8-2 in the first 45 minutes, but both teams went to the first intermission tied, 2-2.
Ohio State continued to hold the shot advantage in the second half (7-1) but could not get past DeGraff. After a scoreless second half, BG appeared to knock in the game-winner just 1:20 into the first overtime. However, the linesman called the Falcons offsides on the play.
Both teams battled to a scoreless first overtime before McCune's goal gave the Buckeyes the victory in the second extra session.
OSU held a 19-3 shot advantage for the game. DeGraff ended with six saves, including two in the second overtime. Chad Brown, who started the second half in goal for OSU, had just one save. Ohio State had nine corner kicks to BGSU's four.
BGSU (0-7) travels to Xavier on Sunday, Sept. 22, for a 2 p.m. match.
