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Southwestern Outlasts Rhodes in Final Game of the Season

Another One-Goal Scoreline

11/17/2009 2:44:49 PM

The Men's Soccer team, looking to avenge an 8-2 loss at home last year, played their final game of the season in Georgetown, TX against Southwestern University.  The men came out strong and found themselves up 1-0 in the 9th minute when sophomore Michael Pappas scored his fifth goal of the season off a cross from junior Nick Bailey.  Southwestern answered seven minutes later with a goal from a poorly defended corner kick, and then caught the Lynx off guard with a dipping volley from about thirty yards out less than a minute later.  Rhodes was still in the game, but had lost a bit of the fight they had from their previous matchup at Trinity two nights prior, and they went into halftime down 2-1.  The second half started off with some chances in Rhodes' favor, but none of them resulted in a goal and the Pirates scored again in the 56th minute to go up 3-1.  The Lynx, however, answered eight minutes later when senior Zac Berry scored when Nick Bailey set him up (for his second assist of the game) after stripping the ball from a Southwest defender.  The rest of the game was a constant back-and-forth battle, and the game ended in a 3-2 Southwestern victory.
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