Saturday’s Scoreboard
Bowling Green 3, West Virginia 0
Stories Courtesy Of MAC Sports Information
Bowling Green 3, West Virginia 0
Box Score
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- The Bowling Green State University men's soccer team broke into the win column in Mid-American Conference play Saturday night (Oct. 26), posting a 3-0 victory over West Virginia University at a rainy Cochrane Stadium.
With the win on Senior Night, the Falcons are now 9-5-1 overall and 1-2-0 in MAC play.
Freshman Spencer Straka, playing in his second collegiate match, scored a goal for the second-straight match. Straka's goal on Saturday was the first game-winning goal of his young career.
Senior Charlie Maciejewski had the primary assist on the GWG for the second consecutive contest. Saturday's winning goal came when freshman Nathan Masters blocked an attempted clearance by the Mountaineers (6-7-1, 0-3-0 MAC). Maciejewski picked up the ball, headed into the penalty area on the right side and played a pass across the box to Straka for a one-time finish.
Straka's winner came in the 36th minute of the contest.
BG put the match away with a pair of second-half goals. With just under an hour gone, the Falcons won a corner kick. Junior Chris Sullivan took a return pass after the short corner, whirled around his defender and hit a cross into the center of the box. Senior Tom Wrobel was marked by a WVU back, and the ball deflected off of one or both of them and into the net, giving the hosts a two-goal lead.
In the 74th minute, another Sullivan right-side cross led to a goal. This time, sophomore Ike Swiger was on the end of a low cross, and Swiger laid the ball into the path of junior Vinny Worner. From the top of the box, Worner made no mistake, burying his shot to put the Falcons up by three.
Senior goalkeeper Anthony Mwembia made three saves on the rainy and windy night, as he and the Falcons kept a clean sheet for the second consecutive match and the eighth time this season. At the other end of the field, WVU 'keeper Steven Tekesky made four stops.
NOTE OF THE NIGHT
• The Falcons are now 6-3-2 in Senior Day/Night matches since Eric Nichols became head coach, and BGSU is unbeaten in the last seven such matches.
• In that seven-match span, the Falcons are 5-0-2 and have outscored the opponents by a 13-3 count.
