Box Score Colorado College had Trinity University on its heels for most of the game, but the tournament's top seed took advantage of a penalty kick in the 83rd minute and added the game winner a little more four minutes later to claim the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship with a 2-1 victory on Sunday afternoon.

Junior midfielder Max Grossenbacher gave CC a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute, putting a shot past Matt Cardone after taking a touch from sophomore midfielder Caden MacKenzie. Senior midfielder Alec Sowers also earned an assist on the play.

The lead would have been larger had it not been for the play of the Matt Cardone, who made several spectacular stops while under constant pressure in the first half.

The senior keeper tipped a shot by MacKenzie over the crossbar a little less than five minutes into the game, and he did the same to Grossenbacher in the 24th minute on a one-time shot from the right side off a cross from senior midfielder Stuart Beezley.

Cardone also got some help from one of his defenders with a little less than 15 minutes to go in the first half when he cleared a cross away from the Trinity line before any Colorado College players could get to it.

At CC's end of the pitch, freshman Theo Hooker made his first big save on a backwards header by Dylan Blumberg midway through the first half.

Hooker's best stop occurred in the 82nd minute when he came off his line to make a sliding save on a shot by Roberto Carmago from five yards away just outside the right post.

The game turned when Lawson was given his fourth penalty kick of the year. He slipped a shot past Hooker's fingertips just inside the right post.

With Colorado College pressing forward, Trinity countered with a long clearing pass from Zacharias Edholm.

Derrick Horvath ran the ball down on the right side, and when Hooker came out to challenge, Horvath slipped a pass to Goncalo Santana who scored the deciding goal into an open net.

Hooker finished with five saves for Colorado College, which is now 15-4-2. Three of CC's four losses were by one goal against Trinity.

TU launched five shots during the final 19 minutes to record a 15-12 edge.

Trinity, ranked second nationally in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's Division III poll, improved to 21-1-0.