CLINTON, Miss. –In a contest that featured 24 shots between the Lee University men's soccer team and Mississippi College, only one was able to find the back of the net. The Choctaws' Luke Fanstone scored in the 46
th minute and that proved to be the only goal of the contest. With the loss, the Flames fall to 7-5-2 overall and 4-4-1 in Gulf South Conference play.
For the majority of the first half, neither team had a shot on goal, with most of them high or blocked. Jakob Buhrkuhl made his only save of the in the 33
rd minute.
MC's goal came off of a corner kick just after the halftime break. Yamoto Fujishema's corner bounced in the middle of the penalty area and Fanstone volleyed hit to the back of the net to give the Choctaws the lead in the 46
th minute.
The Flames dialed up the pressure to try to get the equalizer, everything was saved. Fabian Navarro, Ryan Chouyouti, Marcos Garcia, and Jordan Durante all had shots that were saved by MC.
In the last five minutes, Lee had four shots blocked by the MC defense to keep the Flames off of the board. Chouyouti led the Flames with four total shots and seven different Lee players took shots but could not find the equalizer. Garcia earned a yellow card for the Flames while MC picked up four yellow cards through out the game.
The Flames will return to the friendly confines of Ray Conn Sports Complex on Friday, October 27 at 7:30 PM as they will host Christian Brothers University.
Coach Derek Potteiger's Thoughts:
"That was a disappointing weekend for sure. The poor result on Friday put added pressure on today but I thought the guys came out and handled it really well in terms of bigger picture performance. Unfortunately the results that haven't gone our way is often because of our own mistakes and that happened again today.
Credit to Mississippi College they are a very solid team, but I thought we played well and deserved a better result.
We will take this game as motivation and put our best foot forward this coming last GSC weekend at home."