Rowley's Heroics Lift Orange To Overtime Victory

Saturday, October 22

Louisville, KY

7 p.m.

Syracuse University

Louisville

Pete Rowley netted the game-winning goal with 11 seconds to play in the second OT at Louisville.

Rowley's Heroics Lift Orange To Overtime Victory

10/22/2005 10:29:37 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Redshirt freshman Pete Rowley (Reading, Pa.) scored with 11 seconds left in the second overtime to lift the Orange (7-6-3, 3-5-1 BIG EAST) to a 2-1 win against BIG EAST Red Division foe Louisville (5-9-2, 2-5-2 BIG EAST) at the Cardinal Park Soccer Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22. SU earned three critical points in the league standings with the triumph and moved ahead of Louisville into sixth place in the Red Division standings heading into the final week of the regular season.

Rowley found the back of the net off a cross from junior Richard Asante (North York, Ontario) at 109:49. It was Rowley’s team-leading sixth goal of the season and his first since Sept. 23 at Providence. The score marked his second golden goal of 2005. Asante’s picked up his first assist of the year and the third of his career on the play.

Saturday night’s match was tightly contested and physical the entire way. The game featured 37 fouls between the two clubs and four yellow cards.

SU rookie Spencer Schomaker (Seattle, Wash.) scored in the 40^th minute to give SU a 1-0 lead, but the Cardinals responded at the 75:33 mark with a goal by John Jonke to tie the match.

In the first overtime, sophomore Isaac Collings (Oriskany, N.Y.) almost ended the game in the 96^th minute, ripping a shot off the crossbar. Syracuse earned a corner kick following Collings’ near miss and the Orange reeled off three consecutive shots, two of which were stopped Louisville keeper Steven DeGeorge. SU kept firing in the extra session and a shot by Asante with three seconds remaining in the period sailed wide.

The Orange generated two of the three shots launched in the second overtime, a blast Rowley (Reading, Pa.) that went wide and his eventual game-winner. SU also earned the only two corner kicks of the period, including one at 109:32, 25 seconds before Rowley’s game-winner.

Schomaker’s goal was his second of the season and he moved up to third on the team with six points. Freshman goalkeeper Robert Cavicchia (North York, Ontario) made five saves in the contest. He has 68 saves on the season and improved to 6-6-3 on the year, one victory shy of tying Chris Whitcomb and Kevin Bacher for 10^th on SU’s single-season wins ledger.

Shots in the match were even at 13 apiece, but seven of SU’s came in overtime to just two for Louisville. The Orange owned the advantage in corner kicks, 5-2, three of which came in the extra sessions.

Syracuse will play its sixth and final road match of the season on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at Rutgers. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m.