Box Score Bangor, ME - Husson University defeated Maine Maritime Academy
2-0 to advance to the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship
game. With the win, Husson improves to 9-8-2 on the season
and will host Castleton State in the NAC Championship game on
November 7.
Husson scored the game's first goal 23:44 into
the second half when Mark Trombley (Sr., Burnham, ME) was taken
down in the Mariners box resulting in a penalty kick.
Edwin Acosta (So., Honduras) took a center-left shot on goal to
bring the score to 1-0.
Late in the first half, Mariners goalkeeper, Jeff Butland (Jr.,
Cumberland, ME), made a huge diving save to his right off a Taylor
Wentworth (Fy., Ellsworth, ME) shot to keep the game 1-0 at the
half.
Husson's Tyler Metevier (So., Kittery, ME) scored the game
winner 12:14 into the second half. Metevier received an
assist from Edwin Acosta (So., Honduras) thirty yards from the goal
and beat a defender, carried the ball toward the 18 yard line and
scored off a shot that glanced under the crossbar and into the
Mariners' goal bringing the final score to 2-0.
Main Maritime goalkeeper Jeff Butland tallied 7 saves on 20
shots while Husson's Miguel Dominguez (Jr., Rome, GA) tallied 6
saves on 11 shots.
The first seed Husson University will host the NAC Championship
game at Boucher Field on Saturday, November 7 against the second
seed Castleton. Game time has yet to be decided.