Men's Soccer Falls in Second Half to Mercyhurst

The Central Connecticut men's soccer team surrendered a pair of second half goals and fell to Mercyhurst, 2-1, on Thursday in Northeast Conference action in New Britain, CT. The Blue Devils led at halftime on a goal by Arnau Rabassa Guillamon.

The Blue Devils travel to FDU on Sunday afternoon.

GAME INFORMATION | BOX SCORE

Score:  CCSU 1, MERCYHURST 2
Records: CCSU (0-9-1, 0-2-0 NEC), MU (4-5-0, 1-0-0 NEC)
Location: CCSU Soccer Field | New Britain, CT

KEY MOMENTS

• The Blue Devils opened the scoring in the 17^th minute through Rabassa Guillamon's first goal at CCSU. He and Ethan Agyare-Danso worked a quick exchange of passes in the penalty area and Rabassa Guillamon took a shot from the right side that he put into the upper 90 to make it 1-0.
• Mercyhurst would get an opportunity early in the second half when Carver Tierney got behind the defense off a free kick, but his shot was deflected high by Michel Pioncely.
• The Lakers tied the score at the 68:32 mark when Asher Johnson swung a cross in from the left wing and Frank Lovett got his head to it at the right post to make it 1-1.
• The game-winning goal came less than a minute later when the Lakers picked up the goal at midfield and Jorge Tallada Tores slid a cross across the front of goal to Dylan Sumner who slipped his shot into the net to make it 2-1.

NUMBER TO KNOW

29 – The two second half goals were scored just 29 seconds apart.

NOTES

• CCSU and Mercyhurst were meeting for the first time at the Division I level.
• Rabassa Guillamon had a team-high five shots for Central.
• Pinoncely made six saves in the game.

UP NEXT

• The Blue Devils travel to FDU on Sunday afternoon.

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