College of Charleston
North Carolina
Men's Soccer Falls to No. 2 UNC
10/15/2011 1:27:00 AM | Men's Soccer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The College of Charleston men's soccer team dropped a 4-2 decision to No. 2 North Carolina in a back-and-forth contest at Fetzer Field on Friday night. The Cougars led early and later equalized after UNC had seized the lead but two second-half Tar Heel goals claimed the result.
The Cougars snatched the game's first lead when Robbie Benson (Rock Hill, S.C.) threaded a ball through the defense to spring Eric Fornell (Daniel Island, S.C.) towards goal and Fornell made the most of it with the game's first mark in the 17th minute.
UNC responded quickly with an equalizer off a corner-kick head-in by Matt Hughes and then took their first lead in the 26th minute with some clever passing and a laser of a shot by Martin Murphy into the lower-left corner of the net.
The Cougars had an answer of their own in the 32nd minute when Tony Kattreh (Neptune Beach, Fla.) kept a ball in play along the UNC endline and crossed it into the box where Troy Peterson (Federal Way, Wash.) volleyed it home from six yards away.
The second half flowed quietly from end to end until UNC seized its second league off an individual effort by Billy Schuler in the 57th minute. Schuler made a lateral run into space across the top of the box and then made a quick turn-and-shoot move back to his left and put the ball into the top of the net.
The Tar Heels added the insurance mark in the 73rd minute when Enzo Martinez found some space through the middle of the pitch and scored from a slight angle just inside the top of the box.
The match was the Cougars' fifth against a team ranked or receiving votes in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll and only their second loss to such an opponent.
The Cougars return to Southern Conference action when they head to Boone, N.C., to face Appalachian State on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 6 p.m.
