Oct. 7, 2005
Box Score
Huntington, W.V. - The SMU men's soccer team won its third straight game and remains unbeaten in Conference USA play with a 4-1 win over Marshall Friday night on a cool, rainy evening at Sam Hood Field on the campus of Marshall. With the win, SMU improves to 5-4-2 overall (3-0 C-USA) while Marshall drops to 2-7-1 overall (0-2-1 C-USA).
The Herd dominated in many aspects of the first half, but the Mustangs went into intermission with a 1-0 lead, thanks to a Mynor Gonzalez penalty kick in the 19th minute. Marshall outshot SMU, 11-4, in the first half but was unable to score despite some golden opportunities.
The offenses began clicking in the second half. SMU notched the first goal of the stanza in the 61st minute when Mustang freshman Paulo da Silva worked his way through traffic and buried a shot to the lower corner of the net past Marshall goalkeeper Greg Terhune.
Four minutes later, the two teams lit up the scoreboard with three goals in just 42 seconds. SMU started the frenzy when freshman Bruno Guarda headed in a Jeff Harwell free kick at the 65:32 mark. Marshall responded 15 seconds later with a carbon copy of the Guarda goal, as Kirk Gibson headed a Michael MacDonald free kick past SMU goalkeeper Steve Sandbo.
The Mustangs came right back to take a 4-1 lead when senior Kellan Zindel scored an unassisted goal at 66:14 to end the scoring for the evening.
SMU travels to Lexington, Ky., to face the Wildcats Sunday afternoon. Kentucky (4-3-4) defeated Tulsa Friday evening by the score of 2-1.
