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The Clarion \ Nov. 12,2010
Men's soccer falls in double-overtime match at SAC Tournament
The Brevard College men’s soccer team was
able to comeback from a 2-0 first half deficit
and tie things up 2-2 with Wingate University,
but came up short as the Tornados fell 3-2
in a double-overtime loss in the 2010 Food
Lion South Atlantic Conference Men’s Soccer
Tournament Quarterfinal on Wednesday night.
Brevard took Wingate to the final 30 seconds of
the second overtime.
Freshman Jami Uuttu put the Tornados on the
scoreboard at the 69 minute mark with an assist
from Jaime Villacis in a hard fought loss to
Wingate at the SAC Tournament.
Volleyball falls in final
match of the season
Rebecca Schoonover capped off a stellar
career with the Brevard College Tornados with
15 digs and Kortney Conner added 11 kills,
but BC was unable to overcome visiting King
College as the Tornados fell to the Tornado in
straight sets.
The Tornados finish up the regular season with
a record of 3-26. Jamie Atkinson and Ashlie
Morrison each had seven kills in the defeat,
while Bethany Stevenson led the team with 24
set assists.
Sydney Yeomans added three service aces,
while contributing 10 digs on the backline,
while Atkinson led all players with four blocks
in the match.
Schoonover finishes her career with Brevard
with 1,591 digs, overtaking Maegan Bodiford in
the final match of the season to finish second in
digs in the BC all-time record book.
She finished her career with two matches in
which she eclipsed 30 digs in a match, including
last year on November 6th against Mars Hill,
where she recorded 37 in the Tornados victory
over the Lions.
A two-time BC Volleyball captain, Schoonover
was an Honorable Mention recipient for the
prestigious 2009 Wooden Cup and plans to
graduate in the spring with a degree in Business
and Organizational Leadership.
Wingate came out of the gate shooting as they
had 16 first half shots but were unable to find the
net until the 15 minute mark. Jamie McKenna
scored his 13 th goal of the season when he took
a cross from Fabricio Barancoski and put it away
with his left foot. McKenna’s goal gave Wingate
a 1-0 lead.
The Tornados were able to hold the Bulldogs
at bay for almost 20 minutes until Wingate was
able to find the net again. Paulo Brunetto scored
his second goal of the season when he took a
loose ball in the box and put a low liner into
the net, giving the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead heading
into the half
The Tornados rallied in the second half by
scoring two goals on just two shots.
In a two minute timeframe Brevard was able
to find the net twice. First when Jami Uuttu
took a comer kick from Jaime Villacis and used
one touch to beat the Wingate keeper It was
Uuttu’s third goal of the season and Villacis’
seventh assist of the season to slim Wingate’s
lead to 2-1.
Just two minutes later Landon Reid was able
to beat the Bulldog’s keeper for his second goal
of the season to nod things up at 2-2 which is
where the score stayed through the remainder of
regulation time.
The Tornados held Wingate to just three shots
in the over time periods and didn’t allow the
final Bulldog goal until just 30 seconds left in the
second overtime. Barancoski used his noggin to
knock one into the net on a free kick from Luke
Mulholland for his eighth goal of the season.
The goal gave Wingate the final 3-2 victory
which eliminated Brevard from the 2010 Food
Lion South Atlantic Conference Men’s Soccer
Tournament.
Jack Shaw started the match for Brevard
and was pulled after 45 minutes of play. Shaw
allowed two goals on 16 shots by Wingate. Pauli
Jussila closed out the game for the Tornados.
Jussila was tested by nine shots and held the
Bulldogs at-bay until the final 30 seconds of the
second overtime.
With the loss, Brevard fell to 3-15-1 as their
final record for the 2010 season. The Tornados
ended their season out winning two of their
final four matches and look to build on their late
season success next season.
Canale earns fifth place finish
at SAC Cross Country Championships
Angela Canale became the secondBC women's
cross country runner in Brevard's recent history
in the NCAA Division II to place in the top seven
at the 2010 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference
Cross Country Championships, finishing fifth
overall, in receiving First Team All-SAC and
All-SAC Freshman team honors this morning
in Wingate, N.C.
Both the BC men's and the women's cross
country teams took the field at the meet,
competing against runners from all participating
SAC institutions.
The women finished eighth overall as a team,
led by Canale as the freshman finished fifth place
overall out of the 77-woman field, crossing the
finish line in 19:31 in the 5,000-meter race.
Olivia Fawcett was the next quickest to cross
the finish line for Brevard. Fawcett crossed in
a time of 22:23 which was good for 38th place.
Danielle Messer finished with a time of 23:27,
while Ariel Muiselaar crossed two seconds later
at 23:29. Melissa Schmidt finished with a time
of23:56 and Grace Skiles covered the course in
24:16. Liza Fortenberry was able to complete the
race in 28:37. Anderson University’s Whitney
Bishoff took the women’s race with a time of
18:10, while the Trojans took the event as a
team as well.
F or the men, Jonathon Lavelle was able to lead
them to a seventh place finish. Lavelle finished in
31 st place with a time of27:46 in the 8,000-meter
run. Jordan Tager and Michael Allsopp were the
next two to cross the finish line for the Brevard
men as they each crossed at 28:08. Erik Gibbs
covered all 8,000 meters in 28:52, while Josh
Mower finished at 29:23. Tiffen Tapia crossed
the finish line 10 seconds after Mower at 29:33.
Chris Shore was able to finish in 30 minutes even
and Christopher Shelton covered the course in
30:51. Tusculum’s Simon Holzapfel took the
race with a time of 25:04 while Mars Hill was
able to take the team title finishing three of the
top four racers.
Freshman Angela Canale became the second
woman in the cross-country programs recent
history to achieve a top seven finish in the NCAA
Division II SAC Championships.