Box Score WALTHAM, Mass. – On a rainy night under the lights, the
Brandeis University men's soccer team outshot
21st-ranked Carnegie Mellon University, 13-6, taking the
Tartans to overtime, but visitors had the most important shot,
scoring in the 93rd minute to defeat the Judges, 1-0, in
University Athletic Association (UAA) action. Brandeis falls to 7-4
on the season, 1-2 in the UAA, while CMU improves to 9-2, 1-2 UAA.
The Judges drop to 0-2 in OT games, while that Tartans rise to
3-2.
In the first half, Brandeis outshot Carnegie Mellon, 5-2, though
both of the Tartans' attempts were on net. Senior Taylor
Bracken (No. Andover, Mass./St. Johns Prep) made a diving
stop in the 28th minute off CMU junior Ian Epperson
(Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) to keep the game square.
After intermission, Brandeis picked up their intensity, firing
seven shots on Tartan sophomore Zach Stahl (East Brunswick,
N.J./East Brunswick). Judge junior midfielder Theo
Terris (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) was the stymied
by Stahl three times in just under two minutes, including a strike
on a free kick from about 25 yards out that Stahl deflected away
from the lower left corner. Stahl came up big on another blast from
outside the box in the 62nd minute, corralling a shot by
sophomore midfielder Joe Eisenbies (Hingham,
Mass./Hingham), but back-to-back stops on senior Steve
Keuchkarian (Watertown, Mass./Watertown) and the ensuing
rebound by Terris, both from close range, kept the Judges at bay in
the 64th minute.
At that stage in the game, Brandeis owned a 12-2 shot advantage.
Carnegie Mellon started to get their offense back on track in the
final 15 minutes, as Bracken made a couple of fine saves on Tartan
rookies Max Tassano (Bala Cynwyd, Pa./Lower Merion) and Cole
Christensen (Denver, Colo./Rock Canyon). The latter boomed a free
kick from near midfield into the box that Bracken snatched away in
the 79th. Stahl made seven second-half saves, while
Bracken had two, finishing with four for the game.
The decisive play in overtime came at the 92:15 mark. CMU junior
midfielder Carmen Minella (Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley) earned
a corner kick, which he sent into the mix. Tartan sophomore
midfielder Moni Sallam (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) out-leaped the
Brandeis defense to get a head on the ball, burying it for his
first collegiate goal.
Brandeis returns to action with a game against their
third-straight nationally-ranked opponent, ninth-ranked Emory, in a
UAA contest Sunday at 1:30 p.m. CMU heads to NYU at the same time
in league play.