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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER YELLOWJACKETS
Bobby Milenovici
2
Winner Wis.-Platteville UWPMEN (2-0)
1
Rochester URM (1-1)
Winner
Wis.-Platteville UWPMEN
(2-0)
2
Final
1
Rochester URM
(1-1)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wis.-Platteville UWPMEN 0 2 2
Rochester URM 1 0 1

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Pioneers Nip Men at the End



Wisconsin-Platteville scored twice in the second half, including the gamewinning goal with less than four minutes to play, to win the Flower City Soccer Tournament, 2-1, at Fauver Stadium on Sunday.

UW-P made a habit of late-game heroics. On Friday, the Pioneers trailed St. John Fisher by two with less than 10 minutes left. Platteville scored twice to force overtime (tying the game with 18 seconds left, then won it in the first minute of OT, 5-4.

Ben Terpening, who scored the tying goal on Friday, got the gamewinner vs. Rochester. He drove a 16-yard free kick into the net at 86:51 to snap a 1-1 tie.

The Yellowjackets took a 1-0 lead at 21:12. Minutes after his free kick was punched wide for a corner, Nick Mikolenko redirected a goalmouth feed from Mike Harris into the net. Patrick Ripp started the sequence, looping a corner kick to Harris at the near post. He backheeled it across the goalmouth and Mikolenko slid it past Platteville goalkeeper Steve Wise.

Platteville got even with the match just over one hour old. The Pioneers were awarded a corner kick. Tyler Holle slid it outside the box to Bryan Mark past the right side of the circle. Mark hit a low drive to the left hand corner through a screen at 61:34, tying the score at 1-1.

Wise produced two clutch saves after that. He grabbed a point-blank header from Ripp just inside the crease. Minutes later, he dove to his left to grasp a shot from Matt Sulkin, ticketed for the low left corner.

Rochester nearly broke the tie a minute before the winning goal. The Yellowjackets earned a free kick on the left sideline. Brian Tuohy hit it high and hard to the back post but none of the Yellowjackets could get there in time.

Platteville is 2-0, Rochester 1-1. The Yellowjackets are home on Friday at 7 pm against St. Lawrence, then host Clarkson at 3 pm on Saturday.

Terpening was the overall tournament MVP. Mark, who had a goal and an assist in the eight-minute rally on Friday, was the Best Offensive Player. The best defender was Rochester's Bobby Milenovici.

Oswego took third place with a 6-4 victory over St. John Fisher.