Senior Cole Larned scored the lone Franklin Pierce goal in today's
NCAA Tournament setback at #12 Dowling. PHOTO BY Andrew
Katsampes.
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2006 champion Golden Lions open 3-0 lead, eliminate reigning
champions
Boxscore
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. (November
16, 2008) - 2006 NCAA Division II Champions and
second-seeded Dowling College, ranked 12th in this
week's National Soccer Coaches Association of America
(NSCAA)/adidas Division II poll, opened a 3-0 lead and never looked
back in eliminating 2007 National Champions and sixth-seeded
Franklin Pierce in semifinal round action of the 2008 NCAA Division
II Men's Soccer Championship's East Regional at Golden Lions Field
this afternoon.
Dowling (17-3-0) advances to the
East Regional championship match, where it will host fourth-seeded
University of Massachusetts Lowell (13-3-4) next weekend. UMass
Lowell advanced with a 2-1 victory over top-seeded and No. 8-ranked
Southern New Hampshire University in today's other regional
semifinal in Manchester, N.H. Franklin Pierce sees its season come
to a close at 13-8-2 after posting a 9-3-1 clip in the Northeast-10
Conference.
Junior forward Lamine
Traore (Mali, Africa) played a role in all three Dowling
goals, posting a goal and two assists on the afternoon. Junior
Moussa Keita (Guinea, West Africa) and sophomore
El Hadji Mbow (Theis, Senegal) also netted goals
for the Golden Lions.
Senior goalkeeper Nemanja
Veljovic (Belgrade, Yugoslavia) made one save in the
winning effort for Dowling. Freshman Vinny Papageorgiou
(Wilmington, Mass./Wilmington) stopped three shots for
Franklin Pierce. Dowling finished with a 12-4 advantage in shots
for the match, including a 4-0 edge in the second half.
Senior Cole Larned (Wilton,
Conn./Wilton) netted the lone Franklin Pierce goal with a
penalty kick late in the first half, but the Ravens couldn't muster
a shot over the final 45-minutes to make the comeback.
Traore put Dowling in front just
7:11 into the match when he took a cross from the left side by
junior Carl Rydin (Göteborg, Sweden) and
fired in his 23rd goal of the season. Traore turned
provider for the Golden Lions next two goals which came in the span
of 2:02 midway through the half. Keita took a Traore pass from the
right side and found the middle of the net from ten yards out for
his sixth goal of the year in the 25th minute. Mbow took
a pass from Traore during a scramble in front of the net and found
the right side of the goal for his first marker of the season at
26:38.
Larned got a goal back for Franklin
Pierce in the 41st minute with a penalty kick after a
hard foul inside the 18.
