(Story taken from the Birmingham-Southern College website)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Coach Preston Goldfarb got
his 300th career win this afternoon in the final game of the 2009
Birmingham-Southern Labor Day Classic. The Panthers (2-0) defeated
Mississippi College (2-1) 3-0 to remain unbeaten on the young
season.
Coach Goldfarb is two games deep into his 27th season on the
Hilltop. In that time he has compiled a 300-206-36 record (a .587
winning percentage).
The win was certainly not an easy one for the Panthers. Both teams
kept the ball moving up and down the pitch for the first eleven
minutes with neither team able to break away and get a good shot at
the goals. Tyler Evans finally broke the stalemate in the
12th-minute when he connected from a Tony Crocker feed to put the
Panthers up 1-0.
The Panthers held to that slim lead into the half. The Choctaws'
attack remained furious, but Shachar Hovan responded skillfully in
goal for 'Southern keeping MC off the scoreboard. Evans' goal was
the only offense of the game even deep into the second half.
Finally, early in the 60th-minute, Garner Shivers broke the defense
and connected off the feed from Nicholas Reitmeier to give BSC an
insurance goal.
It was Evans who put the final nail in the Choctaws' coffin in the
69th-minute to complete coach's 300th.
Both Hovan and Charlie Boles played flawless ball in net for the
Panthers. Hovan recorded five saves in his just under 75 minutes
with Boles holding off MC's late charge in the final 15 minutes to
preserve the 3-0 shutout.
The Panthers will be off the rest of this week before they head up
to Sewanee to play in the Kyle Rote Jr. Invitational on Saturday
and Sunday. The men will not return to BSC Soccer Park until
September 25th when they open up a two-game men's and women's
doubleheader with SCAC-rival Rhodes College.
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