Box Score BUENA VISTA, VA - Liam Hogan (Haymarket, VA / Battlefield) scored his fourth goal of the season with 1:15 left in double overtime to lift Hampden-Sydney Soccer to a 2-1 win at Southern Virginia in the Tourbeau Sports Game of the Week.
Hampden-Sydney is undefeated in its last eight overtime matches, going 5-0-3. Their last overtime loss was on October 22, 2011.
Neither team was able to get into much of an offensive rhythm in the first half with only six combined shots. The Tigers nearly got on board at 44:44, but a Hogan shot was just barely stopped by Efren Gutierrez.
The Tigers broke through in the 54th minute. A Robert Kerby (Hampton, VA / Kecoughtan)shot went off the crossbar, and James Lawrence (Midlothian, VA / Midlothian) was in the right place at the right time as he corralled the rebound without an SVU defender within several yards and the goalkeeper out of position from trying to save Kerby's shot. Lawrence took one control dribble and posted the easy goal.
The Tigers kept pressing, trying to notch what would have likely been a game-clinching second goal, but SVU's Carlos Munoz flicked in a shot just inches above Cameron McFarlane's (Norwich, CT / South Kent) outstretched arms to tie the game at 1-1 in the 75th minute.
Hampden-Sydney kept bringing the offensive pressure and got several great goal scoring chances, but Gutierrez made four saves in a five-minute span, with two of them being point blank stops. The Tigers got in one last corner kick in the final minute of regulation, and Thomas Carswell's (Woodbridge, VA / Osbourn Park) header went just high as the game went into extra periods.
The Tiger defense kept Southern Virginia without a shot after 92:06. H-SC registered just one shot on goal in the first overtime as Kerby's shot at 99:53 went narrowly wide to send the game to double overtime.
Kerby and Hogan had two shots saved in the first minute of 2OT. In the 107th minute, Leo Kowalski (Curitiba, Brazil / Deep Run) got the ball past the goalkeeper, but with pressure from incoming defenders and slipping as he took the shot, it went narrowly wide of the open goal. Hogan then scored the game winner in the 109th minute off a scramble in front of the net as he poked the ball just narrowly inside the right post to win the game.
Hampden-Sydney dominated on that stat sheet with a 26-6 shot advantage, including a 12-4 edge in shots on goal. Gutierrez finished the day with 10 saves compared to three for McFarlane. The Tigers recorded seven corner kicks to the Knight's four. H-SC committed just seven fouls throughout the contest compared to 16 for SVU, who also was yellow carded three times.
Hampden-Sydney opens up ODAC play on Wednesday when they travel to Lynchburg College for an 8 pm game.