Cabrini men’s soccer team season ended after falling to Centenary College Cyclones after penalty kicks 6-5.
This loss marks the last game that a core group of seven seniors will play together as Cavaliers. Ryan Cerrato, C.J. Doherty, Joe Halbherr, Gabe Kuhn, Brett Lockbaum, Brendan Magerr and Eric Nowicki, led the Cavs to 40 victories and the 2012 CSAC championship.
This group played a total of 363 matches as Cavaliers. They also combined for 106 points including 43 goals and earning nine All-CSAC honors and six academic All-CSAC accolades.
Centenary was the first to draw first blood in the contest. The game was scoreless until the 40th minute as Sean Robinson scored. The Cyclones held onto this lead through the first half of play.
As the second half started, Cabrini was looking to even the score. In the 55th minute freshman A.J. Bishop headed the ball into the back of the net off of a pass from Lockbaum to even the score and give the rookie his team-leading 11th goal of the season.
The game remained in a 1-1 tie until the 73rd minute when Lockbaum had another assists, this time it was to freshman Bobby Kane who found the back of net for his fifth goal of the season.
The Cavs couldn’t hold on to the 2-1 lead as the Cyclones Louis Martin converted a long shot opportunity tying the game in the 86th minute forcing overtime.
The teams battled out two 10 minute overtime periods only to force a penalty kick shootout to decide who would go to the CSAC championship match.
Cavaliers fell behind as they missed their first two attempts and the Cyclones connected on both of theirs. Nowicki blocked two in a row and the Blue and White made another which tied the shootout at 3-3 after five rounds.
This forced the shootout to sudden death.
Both teams scored in the sixth round and both missed on the seventh. The Cavaliers missed their shot attempt first and the Cyclones capitalized as this sent them to the CSAC championship match against top-seeded Marywood University.
The Blue and White close out their season with an overall 11-7-3 record including 7-2 in CSAC play.
