Quakers split in OAC/NCAC Shootout

Quakers win first of season in final game

TIFFIN, Ohio (September 6, 2003) -- The Wilmington College Quaker men's soccer team split a pair of games over the weekend at the OAC/NCAC shootout hosted by Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.

In their first game the Green and White were downed 4-3 before picking up their first victory of the season in a 4-2 afternoon win. In the first game the team scored the first two goals of the game when Eric Schoutz (Cincinnati/Anderson) took a Ben Williams (Ft. Thomas, KY/Newport Central Catholic) pass and beat the Big Red defender in the 11th minute of the game. A minute and a half later the Green and White added their second goal of the game when Ryan Grant (Huber Heights/Wayne) beat the keeper, taking the Quaker's lead to 2-0 in the game. The Quakers kept their two-goal lead until the 38th minute when Scott Vallee scored the first of his two goals on a penalty kick, cutting the deficit to one at 2-1, which was the score at the end of the first period.

In the second half Denison scored just five minutes into period, when Vallee scored his second goal of the game, knotting the score at two apiece. 11 minutes later the Quakers re-took their lead when Ben Hawkins (Springfield/North) scored his first goal of the season, giving the Green and White the 3-2 lead. The lead would be short-lived as Denison tied the game at three four minutes later, before adding the winning goal in the 84th minute of the game.

In the second game Chad Garman (Dayton/Chaminade-Julienne) got the Quakers on the board in the ninth minute with a goal. After almost 20 minutes of scoreless play after the inagural goal, the teams swapped four goals in the next 16 minutes, with the Quakers getting goals from David Benedict and Ben Williams and Kenyon from Kevin Luby and Hans Wetzel. The deciding goal came on Williams' shot from a Benedict pass. The Green and White added an insurance goal in the 60th minute when Jonas Pettersson (Bergeforsen, Sweden/Timra Gymnasium) scored, giving the Green and White the two-goal advantage that they would end the game with.

With the split, the Quakers record currently stands at 1-2.

The Green and White next take the pitch on Tuesday, September 9 when they travel to Delaware, Ohio to face off against Division III powerhouse Ohio Wesleyan University with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m.

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