MAC Announces Men's Soccer Co-Players of the Week
Men's Soccer Co-Players of the Week
Joey Piatczyc, West Virginia
Midfield, Redshirt Senior, Lee’s Summit, Mo. (Lee’s Summit HS)
WVU senior midfielder Joey Piatczyc tied the match with 13 seconds left in regulation and scored the game-winner three minutes into overtime to propel West Virginia to a 2-1 victory at Akron on Saturday night. The Mountaineers trailed 1-0 12 minutes into the second half, but Piatczyc led an offensive attack that resulted in the game-tying goal at 89:47, and the game-winner at 92:27. Piatczyc led the team with three shots, all on goal, as he guided the offense to a 10-1 advantage in shots following Akron’s goal. Piatczyc recorded his first career two-goal match, while his two points on the game-winning goal gives him 17 game-winning points in his career, eighth-most in a single season in program history. Piatczyc leads the conference with three game-winning goals, while in MAC play, he leads the league with four points and two goals. The senior paces the team with 12 points.
Charlie Maciejewski, Bowling Green
Midfielder, Junior, Cincinnati, Ohio (Summit Country Day)
Bowling Green junior midfielder Charlie Maciejewski scored a pair of Golden Goals as the Falcons went 2-0-0 last week. On Tuesday (Oct. 9), Maciejewski scored the winner with just 3.5 seconds left in the first scheduled overtime period, giving the Falcons a 3-2 victory at IUPUI. BG won a throw-in with under 20 seconds to go, and the ball was quickly passed to Maciejewski. Near the end line, he made a spin move to get around his defender, took the ball into the box from the right side and blasted a shot into the roof of the net from approximately 10 yards out. Then, on Saturday (Oct. 13), ‘Charlie Magic’ scored in OT once again, this time in the 97th minute, to give BG a win in a conference match at Northern Illinois. After a foul on the Huskies, a long free kick was played forward, and BG’s Tate Robertson got a touch on the ball near the 18-yard line, flicking it on a diagonal path toward the center of the box. Maciejewski raced into the area, leaned down and headed the ball past the NIU ‘keeper to give the Falcons the win. Maciejewski now has three career goals. One came with under two minutes left in regulation and tied the match, and the other two (last week’s two goals) both came in OT. Bowling Green is 4-5-3 overall, and the Falcons are tied for second in the Mid-American Conference with a 1-0-1 league record. BGSU is unbeaten (3-0-1) in the last four matches.
