Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer
 

Wittenberg Upends Wooster 1-0 in Physical Match-Up

WOOSTER, Ohio - For the second time in as many games, The College of Wooster men's soccer team was on the short end of a 1-0 decision, this time to No. 11 ranked Wittenberg University. The visitors scored via a penalty kick just under eight minutes into the second half, and hung on for the North Coast Athletic Conference victory Saturday afternoon at Carl Dale Memorial Field.

For the Tigers, Brian Glenn drew a Wooster foul inside the box, and calmly booted in the penalty shot, accounting for the game's lone goal during a second half that witnessed Wittenberg (11-0-0, 2-0-0 NCAC) owning a 10-2 shot advantage, and a combined 20-5 bulge for the match.

During that second stanza, the Fighting Scots (4-6-1, 1-2-0 NCAC) nearly knotted the contest with just over 25 minutes left. Freshman Erik Beuck received a pass inside the box, made a move to his right, but his shot from 10 yards out sailed high.

On the other end of the field, goalkeeper Taylor Takacs produced nine saves during the match to keep Wooster within striking distance, including a pair of stops with just under 11 minutes to go in the opening stanza on back-to-back shots by Matt Borland that was stopped and rebounded directly to Shane Price, but Takacs didn't allow either would-be scoring attempt past him.

Overall in the physical affair, a combined 39 fouls were whistled and six yellow cards were handed out.

The Scots will look to end their three-game losing streak on Wednesday when they travel to Oberlin College (7-5-0, 1-1-0 NCAC) for a 7 p.m. match.