2012-13 OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY
FIGHTING SCOTS MEN'S SOCCER TEAM

Ohio Valley University played their final game of the season today against the Shepherd University Rams. Coach Dan Lyons would coach his final game as the Head Men’s Soccer Coach at Ohio Valley University after 16 years of being with the team since its conception in 1997.

The first half of play was very back and forth between the Rams and the Fighting Scots until fifteen minutes in when Bryce Fugitt poked the ball over the head of OVU’s keeper, D’Arcy Turner as he charged the 1v1 situation. This would be the game winner for the Rams who would go on to score 5 more in the game for a 6-0 victory. Fugitt would score a hat trick in the match.

Kevin Rivera led the Fighting Scots in shots with four as OVU had seven total in the game. Christian Breaux made an appearance in net for OVU and had two saves while in there.
This concludes the Fighting Scots 2012 season.

The Fighting Scots of OVU and the Mountain Lions of Concord University came together today in conference play at Ohio Valley.

After the first 45 minutes of play the game remained scoreless. Ohio Valley’s midfield maintained control of the game and several through balls created offensive opportunities for the Fighting Scots. Christian Breaux almost scored on one such opportunity when Concord keeper, Mitch Thompson came out and made the save. Breaux put the rebound just over the open net.

D’Arcy Turner made some big saves in the half for OVU. He just got his fist on a high shot to the left corner to push the ball over the net.

As the second half started both teams played very evenly but Concord was generating more shots than the Scots. With limited subs for OVU, the team began to fatigue. Concord’s Caleb Bone got a cross on the back side of the net from teammate Isaac Jordan and placed it in the open net for the game winning goal. Concord would strike once more six minutes later when Tyler Farrar crossed a ball that deflected to Ryan Forde for a goal making the final score 2-0.

The Fighting Scots have one game remaining, tomorrow against Shepherd University at 2pm.

Ohio Valley University and the University of Charleston battled in WVIAC play today at OVU’s field. The Golden Eagles would take home a 6-0 victory over the Fighting Scots.

Charleston came out and struck early scoring their first goal in 1 minute and 33 seconds against the Scots. Alexander Gallard volleyed in a throw in by teammate Nathan Schmitt for the game winning goal. UC would score one more in the half when Nathan Schmitt toe poked in a through ball sent from Renan Ramos. The Golden Eagles had 4 shots in the half and OVU had 0.

The Fighting Scots wouldn’t give up and continued to battle with the Golden Eagles. OVU was unlucky in having a penalty kick called against them and UC’s Jordan Lavender wouldn’t miss to give his team a 3-0 lead. UC would score three more in the game. Akintunde scored a volley on a cross from Osborne. Then Osborne scored one himself from teammate Ruiz. Ruiz had the final goal of the game in a 1v1 opportunity with the keeper.

OVU would generate two shots in the second half. OVU keeper D’Arcy Turner had two saves in the game.

The Ohio Valley University Fighting Scots men’s soccer team faced off against the California University of Pennsylvania today in regional play. The sunny, cool weather made for perfect playing conditions as the teams battled on OVU’s home field.
Cal-PA would come out fast and strike early. Within the first minute of play they would score after a long pass from defender Billy Wilson would find teammate Anthony DiFrancesco up front who would beat the defense with speed to score.

Both teams settled in for some disciplined soccer where the game was continually played in the midfield. Kevin Rivera, Christian Breaux, and Jackie Flynn played in the middle for the Fighting Scots and had made many beautifully strung passes. Cal-Pa was calm and collected throughout the game and forced several turnovers by the Scots.

In the 36th minute of play Cal-PA struck again with a goal tapped in by Tyler Woolum off a cross by Brad Colvin and a flick by Chris Hunkele. This would bring the score at half time to 2-0.

The Vulcans would pick up 3 more goals in the second half. In the 63rd minute of play David Deamer scored on a pass from Anthony DiFrancesco. The second came on a long throw from Brad Colvin to the head of Kevin Helbig. The final goal for the Vulcans came from Brad Colvin when a long ball from Jon Murphy created a 1v1 opportunity.

The Fighting Scots kept their heads up and kept fighting throughout the game to gain some scoring opportunities. A close offsides call took away a golden opportunity on a pass from Kevin Rivera to Samuel Asimeng. But the Scots would not be shutout. In the final minute of play Christian Breaux would chase down a pass to Cal-PA keeper Alex Heston who was not quick enough getting the ball off of his feet. Breaux ran through the ball and notched a goal for the Scots.

Cal-PA had 23 shots to OVU’s 4. OVU keeper D’Arcy Turner had 9 saves for the Fighting Scots.

In the first half of play between Ohio Valley University and Seton Hill University it was the Griffins who came out aggressive on the ball.  The half was played and controlled in the midfield.  Kevin Rivera was a big presence for the Fighting Scots on the field.

With only 10 minutes left in the half Seton Hill capitolized on a scoring opportunity when Martz scored off a pass from Luchetti.

OVU came out in the second half with winning attitudes ready to come back from the 1-0 deficit.  Samuel Asimeng got the team going early with a close scoring opportunity in the 48th minute of play when it appeared he would have a 1v1 with the keeper but was shielded off at the last minute by a defender.  He wouldn't stop their as Asimeng would score three goals in the next 16 minutes of play to make a hat trick for the game and bring OVU to a 3-1 lead. 

The first goal came on a flick from teammate Christian Breaux which Asimeng placed in the left corner of the net.  Just three minutes later Zach Rohrberg would find the foot of Samuel who then squeezed between two defenders to poke the ball past the keeper for goal number two.  His final goal was from a long pass over the top from Jackie Flynn to create a 1v1 between Asimeng and keeper Jordan Sodhi where Asimeng would once again find the back of the net.

Seton Hill would not back down and continued to pressure the Fighting Scots with shots.  They would come back to score two goals in the last 15 minutes of play to take the game to overtime.  The first goal came from a questionable penalty kick call when OVU keeper D'Arcy Turner came out on a 1v1 situation and slid to deflect the ball away.  Seton Hill would be awarded a penalty kick on the play and Joe Tchimou wouldn't miss.  The second goal came nine minutes later from Paul Cornelius.

Just 2 minutes into overtime Seton Hill would make another attack down the field and Andrew Starcevic would score the game winner for the Griffins.  Seton Hill outshot OVU 34-6 in the game.

OVU keeper D'Arcy Turner would once again play an amazing game with 11 saves for the Fighting Scots.

The OVU Fighting Scots men’s soccer team traveled to Pennsylvania today to play the Bald Eagles of Lock Haven University in regional action. This is OVU’s second game in the PSAC this week after a loss on Saturday at Bloomsburg University.

The Fighting Scots have a young team this year without any seniors on the squad. They are coming together with a lot of improvement and played well today. The team was stringing together some great passing sequences and put together several scoring opportunities. A few offsides calls shutdown what would have been golden opportunities for the Scots.

Lock Haven won the game 2-0. The game winning goal came in the 26th minute of the first half of play when Bobby Mohr took a shot that deflected off an OVU defender into the net. Lock Haven was awarded a penalty kick in the 57th minute of play that was successfully taken by David Qaisi.

OVU goalkeeper D’Arcy Turner had 10 saves in the game for the Fighting Scots.

OVU hosted Urbana University in a doubleheader for the Fighting Scots men's and women's soccer teams. The men played second and lost a hard fought match 3-1 to the Blue Knights.

Early on and throughout the game Ohio Valley had great communication on the field.  They had continuous good ball movement, switching the field at opportune times to keep control of the game.

Urbana would strike early against the Scots with a 1v1 opportunity with Whittle and OVU keeper D'Arcy Turner, turning into first a phenominal save, which rebounded to Urbana teammate Wason who placed it in the open net in the 35th minute of play. 

OVU would keep their heads up and continue to work hard on the field.  Christian Breaux had a great showing at forward for the Scots, hustling back and forth across the top.  He would make a great offensive press on a flick from midfielder, Jackie Flynn that would get turned away by a defender.

Urbana's second goal came 10 minutes later off a longball down the left side of the field from Peers to Nzwanga who beat OVU's defender to take the ball into the box and place it in the right side past keeper, D'Arcy Turner.  Urbana would score once more in the half off a long throw from Wason, much like a corner kick, to th head of teammate Thouvenot.

Going into half time OVU was down 3-0.  The Scots did not give up but fought back in the second half.  The defense was once again led by an amazing effort from Dalton Turner.  The midfield was led and directed by solid play from Jackie Flynn and Omo Esivue. 

The Scots had another great scoring opportunity on a pass from Flynn to Breaux who had a great shot, but keeper McGinley would come up with a big save.  The passing continued to look great for the Scots, who kept calm control of the game. 

In the final minute of play OVU was able to come up with a big goal from Jackie Flynn of a deflection from Christian Breaux to make the final score 3-1.

The Fighting Scots play again on Saturday at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.

The Ohio Valley University men’s soccer team took on the Yellow Jackets of Cedarville University in the home opener for the Fighting Scots.

The Fighting Scots came out playing hard against the Yellow Jackets, but the quick ball movement and speed of Cedarville proved to be too much today. In the 13th minute of play the Jackets struck with their first goal by Timmy Waller off a long pass from Jeremy Hoppe. OVU kept their heads up and continued to battle with the Jackets, but had an unlucky deflection end up in an own goal at 38:13 in the first half taking the Jackets lead to 2-0.

Defenders Dalton Turner and Kevin Rivera tried to rally the team through their tough efforts in back and with the help of goalkeeper D’Arcy Turner were able to keep the Scots in this game.

Coming into the second half the Scots tried to put their best foot forward and turn this game around, but Cedarville was able to find the back of the net two more times by Jon Earl and Connor Scott to bring the final score of 4-0.

Goalkeeper, D’Arcy Turner turned in nine saves for OVU. The team plays again on Wednesday, September 12th at home against Wheeling Jesuit University.

Today was the first conference game of the season for the Ohio Valley University Fighting Scots and the Wheeling Jesuit University Cardinals who battled it out on OVU’s home field. Wheeling Jesuit would come out on top in this one with a final score of 4-0.

The Fighting Scots defense came out playing hard, led once again by junior, Dalton Turner. It seemed the offense struggled to get things going up top. OVU fought hard and never gave up throughout the game. The team kept pushing one another to keep going didn’t give up through to the very end.

The Cardinals offense came out and put pressure on OVU from the start of the game. They ended up with 24 total shots and 14 on goal. OVU goalkeeper, D’Arcy Turner, got a workout in the game continually coming out and making stops. He shutdown several other scoring opportunities for Wheeling Jesuit.

The Cardinals scored two goals in the first half and two goals in the second half. The first goal came on a through ball to #22 Carlos Avila who sent a low cross to #7 Luke Roan in the 17th minute of play. Goal two was off a penalty kick from #11 Ignacio Fernandez after teammate Nicolav Netskar was fouled in the box by OVU.

The Scots held the Cardinals in the second half.  The efforts of Christian Breaux in the middle and Kevin Rivera in the back helped give some life to OVU, but with 17 minutes left Wheeling found the net again when a cross from Ignacio Fernandez found #8 Philip Mshelbwalla wide open for a back door goal. The final goal of the game came from #19 Cody Coven who found himself one on one with the keeper.

OVU plays again a week from today again at home against Urbana University in doubleheader play with the women’s team at 2pm and 4pm.

OVU: Muskingum University Invitational Tournament

The Ohio Valley University men’s soccer team opened its 2012 season on Friday afternoon against Muskingum University at the Muskingum Invitation tournament.

The outcome of the game was reliant on the only goal scored in the game. Daniel Meehan of Muskingum University found the back of the net in the third minute of the game, off an assist by freshman teammate Jourdain Domineck, putting the Muskies ahead 1-0. Despite a solid effort on both ends of the field, OVU was unable to make up the scoring deficit.

OVU goal keeper D’Arcy Turner saved 5 shots on goal with 1 goal scored against the team. The Scots were led by Gabe Strause who had 2 of the teams 6 shots.

On Saturday, the OVU men’s soccer team took the field in their second game of the tournament, and season, against Trevecca Nazarene University. Despite a courageous effort, The Fighting Scots were defeated 4-2 in the match.

The Fighting Scots were down 2-0 at the midpoint of the match. However, OVU’s Samuel Asimeng was able to capitalize on an assist by teammate Omokheafe Esivue making the score 2-1 which provided a spark for the OVU side. Eight minutes later, Jackie Flynn managed to work some offensive excellence of his own by finishing a play which gave Omokheafe Esivue his second assist of the game, and OVU’s all important game tying goal leaving a score of 2-2. Unfortunately the Fighting Scots were unable to contain the Trojans who scored an additional 2 goals in the closing quarter of the game. The final score of the match was 4-2 in favor of the Trojans.

OVU goal keeper D’Arcy Turner played the entire game and had 5 saves in his performance. The Scots were lead on offense by Jackie Flynn and Samuel Asimeng who each scored a goal assisted by Omokheafe Esivue.

The Scots look to continue their efforts as they take the field at home against Cedarville University on Saturday 8th of September.
 

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