By Journal Times staff | Posted: Sunday, September 2, 2007 12:00 am
The UW-Parkside men's soccer team kicked into high gear in the second half Saturday afternoon, breaking a 1-1 tie with Viterbo and scoring seven unanswered goals en route to an 8-1 victory over the V- Hawks in a nonconference match at the Wood Road Soccer Field on the Parkside campus in Somers.
Senior All-American forward Bojan Jovicic scored the Rangers' only goal in the first half on a penalty kick. Gregg Ryder scored Viterbo's goal, also on a penalty kick. The V-Hawks were playing two men short because of red cards.
"Sometimes when you go up two men, you get relaxed thinking it is going to be easy," Parkside coach Rick Kilps said. "We got complacent and that is not a good thing to be."
Andrew Gamarra scored two quick goals to open the second half and Jovicic followed with his second goal of the game, putting Parkside up 4-1. Armin Mehic and Jon Bebeau came off the bench and scored two goals each to wrap up the scoring for the Rangers (3-0).
Parkside, which hosts the University of Mary at noon Monday, had 16 shots on goal. Viterbo had two shots on goal, both in the first half.
CARTHAGE: The Red Men rebounded from a season-opening 4-1 loss to Calvin College Friday in the "Battle on the Border" tournament at Carthage with a 6-0 rout of Buena Vista University Saturday afternoon at Art Keller Field.
Greg Goldsberry (2:30) and Gary Mouradian (13:56) scored in the first half to give Carthage (1-1) a 2-0 halftime lead.
The Red Men broke the game open with four goals in the second half. Alex Laurn scored at 55:30, Doug Fitzgerald at 66:35, Mouradian at 75:10 and Chris Fidlow at 81:10.
Carthage outshot Buena Vista 22-5. Fidlow assisted on two of the second-half goals.
Women's soccer
CARTHAGE: The Lady Reds are off to a 2-0 start this season after beating Buena Vista University 7-0 on the second day of the "Battle on the Border" tournament at Carthage.
Carthage took a 3-0 halftime lead on first-half goals by Kelly Baumgartner (3:30), Keeley Monckton (13:10) and Kelsey Harrington (37:28).
The second half was much the same with the Lady Reds getting goals from Jackie Peterson (49:04), Paige Land (50:38 and 52:00) and Shannon Chesna (66:52).
Carthage outshot Buena Vista 39-1.
Women's volleyball
CARTHAGE: The Lady Reds, ranked eighth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association/CSTV NCAA Division III preseason poll, went 4-0 in the two-day Elmhurst Tournament. On Friday, the Lady Reds defeated No. 9
UW-Oshkosh 33-31, 17-30, 30-26, 30-22 and St. Scholastica 30-15, 30-20, 30-25. In Saturday's matches, Carthage defeated Nebraska wesleyan 30-26, 27-30, 30-19, 30-28 and Coe 30-28, 34-32, 30-21.
Two Carthage players, Jori Simmons and Kelly Bauer, were named to the All-Tournament team.
Cross country
CARTHAGE WOMEN: The Lady Reds opened their season Friday with a fourth-place finish at the Elmhurst Invitational. Loras won the 13-team meet with 42 points, followed by the University of Chicago (52), the Illinois Institute of Technology (113) and Carthage (124).
Carthage was led by Ashey Johnson, who was seventh on the 4K course in 15:31.41. Molly Lawrence was 24th (16:14.60), Justine Petras was 30th (16:24.07), Kathy Zbella was 35th (16:30.46) and Laura Pearson was 43rd (16:37.87) for the Lady Reds.
North Park's Hannah Landecker won the race in 14:46.26.
Women's tennis
CARTHAGE: The Lady Reds opened their season with a split Saturday, beating Illinois Wesleyan 8-1, but losing 6-3 to UW-Whitewater.
No. 2 singles player Beth Kaufman and No. 3 singles player Taylor Gustafson won both of their matches to lead the way for the Lady Reds.