SUWANEE, Ga. - Trinity remained perfect in SCAC play over the weekend as the Tigers defeated both Centre and DePauw at home in San Antonio, Texas. Austin College also picked up their first SCAC wins on the season with victories over Oglethorpe and Sewanee respectively.

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Austin College made it's 2009 Homecoming weekend a memorable one with a pair of hard fought victories over Oglethorpe and Sewanee. The 'Roos topped Oglethorpe 1-0 when freshman Ryan Elias scored his first career goal in the second half to lift Austin College to the victory, and against Sewanee the 'Roos won in dramatic fashion when Sam Temple scored off of a rebounded shot by Luis Castillo with only 13 seconds remaining in the second overtime period to make it a 2-1 final. Earlier in the match Alex Dawson fed Chris Stein for the first goal of the game. Grant Gosselin surrendered just one goal over the weekend, making a total of five saves in the two matches.

Birmingham-Southern was on Fall Break this week and did not play any games this weekend. The Panthers’ game with Maryville College on Thursday night was cancelled due to field conditions at BSC Soccer Park. BSC will resume play this week with a mid-weed match with cross-state rival Huntingdon College on Wednesday before heading to Millsaps on Friday.

Centre split a pair of tough away matches in Texas this weekend. On Friday night in San Antonio, Centre traveled to Trinity to battle the nationally-ranked side. In a great match, Centre gave up a late 84th minute goal to lose a heartbreaker game 1-0 to a talented Trinity side. On Sunday, the Colonels took on Southwestern in Georgetown, TX, and rebounded for an impressive 1-0 win with a late goal themselves. The win marked head coach Jeb Burch's 100th career victory. The Colonels, 11-4-2 (5-2-1 in conference), have an open weekend before taking on Birmingham-Southern and Millsaps at home the following weekend.

Matt Fechter struck for four scores and an assist as Colorado College cruised to a 6-1 victory over Oglethorpe on Sunday. Fechter scored CC’s quickest goal of the season 2:52 into the contest and notched what proved to be the first game-winning goal of his career 4:41 later. Fechter completed his first career hat trick in the 14th minute, CC’s first hat trick since Sept. 13, 2008, when Brendan Douglas scored three times during an 11-0 victory over Cornell College. Jordan Reese extended his assist and points streak to four games and has four goals and six assists during that stretch. Douglas has four goals and three assists in the last four games. Fechter scored his fourth goal in the 66th minute on the rebound of his own shot. Austin Dressen completed the scoring with his first career goal. Trevor Cobb scored the game-winning goal in the 64th minute as CC defeated Sewanee, 4-1, on Friday. Cobb’s goal gave Colorado College a 2-0 lead with just under 26 minutes remaining in the game, but Sewanee took advantage of a red card on David Van Sicklen with 8:09 remaining in the game and cut its deficit in half. Douglas and Reese added goals in the final five minutes to seal the victory. Reese, who gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the 39th minute, finished with two goals and an assist. Douglas also had a goal and an assist. Any McGhie stopped three shots for CC and improved to 2-1 in goal this season. The Tigers play their final non-conference games of the season on Thursday night and Sunday afternoon, respectively, when CC faces Ripon College and Carleton College.

DePauw split its weekend SCAC matches with a 3-2 win at Southwestern on Friday and a 1-0 loss at 10th-ranked Trinity on Sunday to move to 8-4-1 overall and 5-3 in the conference. Gary Pett scored a pair of first-half goals in the win at Southwestern with the first at 2:53 on Brad Kean's assist and the second at 23:47 on Christopher Lee's assist. Kreigh Kamman extended the lead to 3-0 at 52:43 with an unassisted score. The Pirates scored a pair of second-half goals, but the Tigers held on for the win. Southwestern outshot the Tigers 15-10 and held an 11-1 edge in corners. Nate Sprenkel recorded six saves for DePauw. Trinity's Alan Castillejos scored the game's lone goal on an assist from Nima Naderi at 66:25 as the hosts defeated DePauw, 1-0. Trinity held a 7-3 advantage in shots and a 2-1 margin in corners. Ted Jacobi recorded three saves for DePauw, while Trinity's Patrick Johnson had three.

Hendrix enjoyed its bye week and spent the weekend resting up for the upcoming SCAC weekend against Sewanee-The University of the South on Friday night and Oglethorpe University on Sunday afternoon. The Warriors boast a 7-5-1 overall record and 2-1-1 conference mark. Hendrix head coach Doug Mello will head into Friday night’s match in search of his 399th career victory as a men’s coach.

Millsaps fell in its only competition of the week, losing a 4-1 decision to Haverford College (Pa.) to drop to 7-6 overall. The Majors scored the opening goal in the 6th minute from freshman Daniel Moise, but were then outscored 4-0 the rest of the contest. Millsaps will host Birmingham-Southern on Friday at 6 p.m.

Oglethorpe lost two conference matches this past weekend to Austin College and Colorado College. The Petrels were blanked by the ‘Roos in Fridays contest, 1-0 as Austin got a goal in the game’s 68th minute to secure the win. On Saturday, Colorado College raced by Oglethorpe by the score of 6-1, scoring three first half and three second half goals en route to the win. The Petrels are now 6-7-1 on the season and will travel to Rhodes College this coming Friday.

On Saturday, October 17, the Rhodes College Men’s Soccer team hosted Huntingdon College for their only match of the week. It was a slow start for the Lynx, and both teams entered halftime goal-less, but after an inspiring talk from Coach Marcinko, the guys were firing on all pistons. Zac Berry, who was a dominant force down the right side of the field all day, started off the scoring just two minutes into the second half when he finished a cross from Richie Sewell. It was Zac’s second game-winning goal of the year, and his fifth goal all together. Less than ten minutes later, Nick Bailey found Petar Radujkovic, who put the ball in the back of the net for the second goal. The game finished 2-0 in favor of the Lynx, and their record goes to 6-5-1. William Lay started in goal for Rhodes, and Zach Fernberger replaced him for the last thirty minutes of the game.

Sewanee dropped SCAC matches at Colorado College and Austin College this weekend by scores of 4-1 and 2-1. Sunday's match went into double OT and Austin's winner came with just 13 seconds left. Stuart Maxey (Salem, Va.) and Watson Hartsoe (Maryville, Tenn.) scored Sewanee's goals on the week. Sewanee is now 7-6 and 3-2 in the SCAC. The Tigers will play at Hendrix and Rhodes next weekend. Austin is now 3-8 and 2-5 in the SCAC.

Southwestern had a tough home stand as they dropped both contests over the weekend. On Friday’s match against DePauw, SU got out to a slow start and the Tigers took a quick lead and extended it through the early stages of the second half to go up 3-0. The Pirates jumped to action, scoring in the 70th and 75th minute to close the gap to one, 3-2. After a hotly contested final 15 minutes Southwestern was unable to even the count. Sunday saw the Pirates locked in an even match through most of the contest with Centre, but with just over seven minutes remaining Centre captured the lead on a headed in crossing ball, winning 1-0. Southwestern falls to 5-8 overall and 1-4 in conference play. They head to San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, October 24th to faceoff with conference rival Trinity at 5:30 pm.

No. 12 Trinity swept a weekend of play in the SCAC, defeating both Centre and DePauw at home.Trinity, ranked as high as 10th nationally, scored a goal in each game to take 1-0 wins on Friday and Sunday. Tommy Barros knocked in a score in the 81st minute of Friday’s win over Centre, while first-year Alan Castillejos scored his first career goal to beat DePauw in the 67th minute on Sunday. Trinity will remain at home this week, facing off against Southwestern University on Saturday night. The Tigers defeated Southwestern 1-0 in Georgetown last season. Patrick Johnson recorded his fifth shutout of the season in the game.

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