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Freshmen help Bulldogs breeze past Tornadoes 3-0
By Natalie Pearson
Staff Writer
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UNC Asheville dominated the Bre
vard Tornadoes with a 3-0 victory for
their first win of the regular season,
redeeming themselves after suffering
a forgettable 5-0 loss at UNC Chapel
Hill.
Leading off with some frantic and
haphazard soccer, neither team could
keep the ball on the field, even though
sophomore forward Bryan George cre
ated several chances and shots on goal
in the first 30 minutes.
The Bulldogs’ nerves weren’t set
tled until the first score of the game.
“We gave them a little bit too much
time and space in the first half but set
tled our nerves after the first goal,” said
Steve Cornish, UNCA’s men’s soccer
head coach. “Goals change games.”
The first goal came in the 39th min
ute when fi-eshman forward Zachary
Odum took a quick pass at the top of
the box and dropped it to Alex Ko-
slick.
Koslick wheeled around and pushed
a hard through-ball across the box to
Branden Lassen, who drove the shot to
the far post for the game’s first score.
After breaking the deadlock, the
goals kept coming for UNCA with the
second occurring less than a minute
into the second half off an exciting
free kick.
From the 20 yard line, sophomore
midfielder Connor Holzinger scored
his first goal of his season, and college
career, placing it straight in the upper
90 with a sharp spin.
“Connor gave us a lot of mobility
up front,” Cornish said. “So did Zach
and Alex.”
Despite scoring his first collegiate
career goal and helping push the Bull
dogs up to a comfortable 2-0 lead in
the 45th minute, Holzinger said he
wasn’t overly happy with how the
team played as a whole.
“I don’t think we played that well,”
the Charlotte native said. “We nlaved
Susan Terry - Photography Editor
Above, Brevard goalkeeper Jack Shaw dives fo block Zachary
Odum’s shot in the second halt. Right, Bryan Bartels charges past the
Brevard defense for one of his two shots on goal during Friday’s game.
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good in spurts, but we should have
been better than we were.”
One of these spurts culminated into
the Bulldogs third goal during the 72nd
minute by Odum.
Off another assist by sophomore
Koslick, the freshman struck a hit from
15 yards out, settling the final score at
3-0.
With two goals in his first three
games for the Bulldogs, Odum claims
it’s the team that’s encouraging his
good form.
“It’s a lot of everything,” he said.
“I play well. That’s why I’m here. But
the team is great. They embrace all the
freshmen, but they’re definitely mak
ing me better.”
Showing some team spirit, soccer
alumnus Alex Morrow came to the
game to support his twin brothers Eli
and J.J. Morrow, both sophomores
who play midfield and defense, re
spectively.
“I think they both still have a lot of
work to do, but J.J. had a strong game
and Eli wa.s one of the be.st in midfield
“Iplay well. That s
why I’m here. But the
team is great. They em
brace all the freshmen
but they ’re definitely
making me better. ”
—Zachary Odum,
freshman forward
today,” he said.
A recent UNCA graduate, Alex has
now joined the Marines and leaves
in 24 days to go to Quantico, Va., for
flight school.
“I wish I could be out there with
them,” he said. “It’s hard to keep from
yelling at them.”
Thi.s i.s the first name that UNCA
has scheduled against Brevard, but
according to Juan Mascaro, the head
coach for the Tornadoes, it won’t be
the last.
“For us it’s a great game,” he said.
Another first was the appropriately
named Pop’s Dog House, a downtown
Asheville food stand that provided hot
dogs and freshly squeezed lemonade
for the game, outshining last year’s
selections: soda bottles and- bags of
chips.
“The lemonade was delicious,” said
junior Natalie Little. “I don’t normal
ly go to the games to be honest. But
the concessions are good incentive to
come again.”
The Bulldogs’ next challenge comes
this weekend traveling to Davidson for
the Davidson Invitational this week
end and, according to Cornish, they
still have work to do.
“We need to tighten up defensive
ly,” he said. “We also, need to be more
competent in our midfield, and our
final ball needs to have more quality.
I’m .still verv hannv we won though.”