Brunswick, Maine - The Bowdoin College men's soccer team beat
Trinity for the second time in eight days, collecting a 3-0 win in
the Quarterfinals of the NESCAC Tournament on Saturday. The
fourth-seeded Polar Bears improve to 11-3-1 and will face Williams
in the semifinals next weekend. Trinity falls to 10-4-1 with
the loss.
Just over a week since bouncing Trinity, 2-0 in Hartford,
Bowdoin took the lead in the 22nd minute on Sunday. A
perfectly-played free kick by Sean Bishop found the head of Call
Nichols, who netted his second goal of the season to give the hosts
a one-goal edge. Bowdoin carried the lead through halftime into the
52nd minute, when Bishop booted a loose ball into the corner of the
net to give the Polar Bears a two-goal advantage.
Trinity's best chance to cut into the lead came minutes later,
when senior Samuel Wisner (Wayland,
Mass.) took a shot in close that Bowdoin netminder
Dan Hicks punched away. The Polar Bears put the game away with
under seven minutes to play when Tim Prior found Nick Powell behind
the Trinity defense. Powell deked Bantam sophomore goaltender
Grant Schonberg (Mendham, N.J.) and tapped it
into the net for a three-goal lead.
Hicks made six saves for Bowdoin in 85 minutes of play before
giving way to Garrick Sheldon in the final five. Schonberg stopped
a dozen shots in 85 minutes before being relieved by Nathan
Maggiotto. Bowdoin held a 20-15 edge in shots and 7-1 lead in
penalty corners for the contest.
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