GEORGETOWN, Texas – After playing 82 minutes of balanced action on Sunday morning the Southwestern Pirates saw their upset bid over Centre College slip away on a header to lose 1-0. Southwestern falls to 5-8 overall and 1-4 in the conference while Centre improves to 11-3-1 and 5-1-1 in the SCAC.

A very balanced first half ended in a tie with both the Pirates and Colonels taking five shots. SU had some solid shots on goal but Centre’s keeper Arndt made a couple of great saves to keep the game locked at zero. Thanks to the strong SU defense, Pirate keeper sophomore Nick Pierce wasn’t challenged immensely in the first half.

Southwestern’s best look was with just over two minutes remaining. After a substitution brought senior Checo Carreon on the field he drilled a shot from 20 yards out that deflected off a Centre defender forcing Arndt to make a diving save.

Early in the second half the Pirates had a couple of missed opportunities where the ball trickled in front of the goal before Centre cleared the threat. The first was on a corner kick by first-year Will Toler that bounced a couple of times in front of the goal and the other on a throw in by junior Alex Keller, but SU wasn’t able to capitalize on either opportunity.

Centre took the lead in the 82nd minute on a crossing ball from Bayse that found Hall at the near post who flicked it into the back of the net to give the Colonel’s the 1-0 lead. It would turn out to be the game winning goal and the only score of the match.

Southwestern had 11 shots to Centre’s 15 while both teams had five corner kicks. Pierce recorded six saves during the match while Centre’s Arndt had four in the shutout win.

The Pirates will hit the road again on October 24th as they head to San Antonio to take on conference rival Trinity at 7:30 pm.