Men's Soccer Downs New Haven, 2-1, Under the Lights Saturday in Northeast-10 Play
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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – The Merrimack College men's soccer team scored twice in the first half and held on late despite allowing one goal from the visiting New Haven Chargers on Saturday, winning the Northeast-10 Conference meeting in a 2-1 fashion from Martone-Mejail Field.
The Basics
Score: Merrimack 2, New Haven 1
Records: Merrimack (5-1, 2-0 NE-10) | New Haven (3-2, 0-2 NE-10)
Location: Martone-Mejail Field | North Andover, Mass.
How It Happened
- 1' – Twenty seconds into the night, sophomore Lars Sund (Stavanger, Norway) struck a shot into the bottom-left corner of the net to put the Warriors in front. Junior Juan Meza (Cali, Colombia) delivered a through ball then sent Sund in alone on the keeper
- 18' – Senior Jaime Cortes Torres (Seville, Spain) headed an attempt of a corner from Mattia Lanzi (Viterbo, Italy), but was stopped by keeper Stefano Lorusso
- 21' – Senior Oscar Zepeda Cagide (Jalisco, Mexico) struck a shot that looked destined for the upper-90, but Lorusso came up with a lunging stop
- 26' – Cortes Torres appeared to make it two-nil, but he was whistled for offsides prior to scoring
- 38' – Freshman Sebastian Toro (East Boston, Mass.) dished his second assist in as many games, connecting with senior Alexander Alleyne (Swampscott, Mass.) for the latter's second goal at home this season
- 57' – Alleyne had two cracks at his second goal of the night, but his breakway was saved by Lorusso. The rebound caromed back to the Swampscott native, but Alleyne chipped it off the Chargers keeper and away from danger
- 81' – New Haven cut the deficit in half, scoring a goal off a free kick with less than ten minutes remaining
Inside The Numbers
- Toro and Meza each have points in consecutive games. The rookie picked up his second straight assist playing from his outside midfielder position while Meza picked up his season's first assist after leading the team with six last season
- Sophomore Tyler Packett (Eastham, Mass.) finished the night with three saves, while his counterpart prevented a few high-level changes for the Warriors with 11 stops
- Corners: MER 10 // UNH 2
- Shots: MER 18 // UNH 9
- SOG: MER 13 /// UNH 4
Up Next
The Warriors travel to Bentley for a midweek contest at 3:30 p.m. from Waltham, Mass.
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