The Journal

Issue date: 10/27/05 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Mario Ulibarri Danny Mee charges down the field past his Maryville opponent. The Gorloks defeated the Saints with a 1-0 win.

The Webster men's soccer team's fall break, although possibly warmer than yours, was probably less positive.

After a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory Oct. 13, prior to the break at then-conference-leading Fontbonne University, the Gorloks traveled to California for games against the University of Redlands and California Lutheran. The team lost both games 2-0.

The Redlands Bulldogs were winners of ten games in a row preceding the Oct. 18 match. The Bulldogs also won their Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) title the past three years.

California Lutheran, also a strong SCIAC team, needed only 40 seconds to score what would prove to be the game winner. Kingsmen midfielder Mark Tevis snuck a shot through Webster
keeper Tim Hanrahan's legs, putting the hosts up 1-0. The score could have been higher, but Hanrahan atoned for the first minute lapse with eight saves on 23 shots. The final insurance goal came in the 80th minute.

Webster managed just five shots in the loss.

The away losses put a damper on what was a triumphant a October for the Gorloks, with the team taking first place in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) and the conference naming two Gorlok Players of the Week.

Hanrahan's unyielding performance at October's start, six goals allowed and seven shutouts, earned him the award.

The following week, the conference honored Webster's high scoring freshman Kevin Fann. He scored the overtime winning goal in the Fontbonne game, giving him his 11th goal of the season.

Getting back to more familiar territory, the team returned home for a conference match against Maryville University Oct. 22, winning 1-0.

The deciding goal came when,
appropriately enough, Hanrahan found Fann off a spot-kick in the Maryville end. The goal was Fann's 12th and the shutout, Hanrahan's eighth.

As classes resumed Oct. 24 so did the Gorloks, but out of conference form. The team faced Washington University and suffered its worst defeat of the season, a 7-0 trouncing at the paws of the Bears.

The Gorloks still sit alone atop the SLIAC table and have matches with Fontbonne in a non-conference game and Greenville College Oct. 26 and Oct. 29, respectively.

Page 1 of 1

Article Tools