Bryant Drops Two on Tuesday

Bulldogs Fall in Two Away Games

September 17, 2008

Both Bryant soccer teams traveled for away games Tuesday night and both came away with losses.

The Bulldog men fell, 3-0, to Carlos Villa and Hartford in Connecticut. Villa, a junior forward and the Hawks’ biggest threat, found the back of the net three teams against Bryant.

On the women’s side, Bryant traveled to New York and surrendered a second-half goal to lose, 2-1, to Stony Brook.

In Hartford, Villa netted his fifth, sixth, and seventh goals of the season to pace Hartford (2-2-2) past Bryant (1-4-1). Villa, the team's leading goal scorer, got the Hawks on the board early, taking a shot from straight on that beat goalie Neil Black making the score 1-0. That would not be all in the first half for the junior, as Sam Groves (Sutton, Mass.) found Villa in the 34th minute for his second of the match and sixth of the season, staking the Hawks to a 2-0 lead at the half.

Early in the second half, Vernon Perinchief crossed a ball from the right side through the penalty box again to Villa, who fired it into the back of the net to complete the hat trick. The Bulldogs put eight shots on net, but all were turned away by two different Hartford keepers, as Nenad Cudic made six stops while Luke Citriniti saved two. Bulldogs' leading goal scorer Ben Mello (Rehoboth, Mass.) recorded two shots on net in the loss.

Against Stony Brook, Bryant sophomore Sarah Donovan (Storrs, Conn.) scored a game-tying goal in the 50th minute of play, but it was not enough. Donovan's goal was her second of the season, while also giving her a team-leading six points. The Bulldogs recorded 14 shots, nine of them on net, forcing junior keeper Marisa Viola to make eight saves on her way to the win.

The Seawolves got the scoring started in the 21st minute when sophomore midfielder Sarah Dwyer found last week's America East Player of the week, Trine Allenberg, for her third goal of the season to put the Seawolves on top, 1-0. The Bulldogs came out firing after the halftime break, as Holly Tyser (Somers, Conn.) and Brooke Duchaney (Hampton Falls, N.H.) both put shots on net before Donovan found the back of the cage for the tying goal.

Stony Brook would answer just five minutes later as junior forward Kate Collins beat keeper Katie Mitchell for her first goal of the season and what would prove to be the game winner. Freshman Kaitlyn Hinck (Bow, N.H.) would put another shot on net in the 79th minute, but it was turned back by Viola as the Seawolves edged the Bulldogs as the final whistle blew.

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