Sept. 11, 2009
Box Score
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Shutouts were the norm Friday at the Gonzaga/Nike Soccer Classic.
Host Gonzaga University capped the day with a 3-0 victory over Georgia Southern University after Oregon State University had opened the tourney with a 2-0 verdict over the University of Detroit Mercy.
Sunday's schedule has OSU (3-0-1) facing Georgia Southern (0-4-0) at 10:30 a.m. followed by the Bulldogs (2-1-2) and Detroit (1-2-0) meeting in the finale at 1 p.m.
Gonzaga didn't come out of the blocks as quickly as head coach Einar Thorarinsson would have liked, but veterans Ben Funkhouser, Nick Barclay and Tye Perdido found the net to secure the win as Bulldog keeper Scott Barnum picked up his first shutout of the season and the third of his career.
Funkhouser got the Bulldogs on the scoreboard just before halftime, beating backup keeper Mike Gubosh at 40:17 on a free kick from the right sideline 35 yards out that simply went through Gubosh's hands.
The Eagles keeper was forced into his first action of the season when starter Joey Ralph suffered a knee cap injury when his kneecap slipped out and back into place as he moved to his right to cut down the angle on a Perdido shot just 5:56 into the match. His status for Sunday is uncertain.
The Eagles carried the play early, Matt Starks hitting the crossbar on a header from 15 yards out on the left side just 4:11 into the match. Gonzaga keeper Scott Barnum made a save to the near post in the 25th minute when Jon Cox took Danny Hall's thru ball and got off a low, hard shot.
Gubosh denied the Bulldogs James Matern on a rebound of a Funkhouser shot that was blocked by the defense, Gubosh handling Matern's shot from 10 yards with a waist-high save.
Prior to Funkhouser's goal Philippe Garre took a thru ball from Nick Love but couldn't shake the defender for the breakaway, his shot partially deflected out of harms way.
Barnum was called on in the final minute of the half when Cameron Troutman's shot off a throw in from just inside the six was slightly juggled and saved.
GSU missed a chance to tie in the 50th minute when David Leonard's shot from 16 yards from the top right of the 18 hit the far post.
Gonzaga took a 2-0 lead when Barclay scored his second goal of the season at 71:41. He took Mitch Boland's thru ball from 10 yards and buried the shot into the left side of the net. A little more than 10 minutes later the Bulldogs all but wrapped up the victory when Perdido scored his first goal of the season on an assist by Mitchell Weller and freshman Casey Ames who was making his first appearance of the season.
Weller's thru ball to Perdido in close beat Gubosh low. "I thought we came out a little sluggish again today and Georgia Southern came out ready to play," Thorarinsson said. "They controlled the play the first 10 minutes. Once we got going I think we took control of the match."
Thorarinsson said he hasn't made any redshirt decisions, thus the reason Ames, a product of Spokane's Lewis and Clark High, saw his first action of the season.
"Almost everybody will be available," Thorarinsson said. "We have some players who are not playing well right now."
Barnum, who equaled his career high with 11 saves last weekend against Ohio State University, had nine Friday, but a lot of his saves were on shots from outside the 18. Gubosh had five of GSU's six saves as Gonzaga held a 20-15 shots edge.
In the opener, Oregon State didn't waste any time as Colin Mitchell scored his third goal of the season at 3:17, taking a pass through traffic from Brian Ramsey and going 1-on-1 with keeper Brandon Waterstradt and beating him low.
The Beavers struck again at 10:18, Danny Mwanga getting his third tally of the season unassisted. He dribbled deep down the left side, cut across the baseline and scored from a seemingly impossible angle to find the far side of the net.
OSU, which played to a 1-1 overtime tie Tuesday against Gonzaga, held a 12-6 shots advantage as Beaver keeper Steve Spangler was called on for just one save. Waterstradt had just two saves in the Detroit net.
The best scoring chance of the match for Detroit came in the 39th minute when Jake Munchiando's shot from 10 yards left side deflected off the post although it appeared Spangler was in position to make the save.
OSU's Alex Penny came back less than three minutes later and hit the cross bar at the other end of the field, taking a long pass from the OSU zone and getting a shot off from 8 yards.
Waterstradt went high for a tip save of John Swenson's hard 30-yarder in the 70th minute, and Spangler made a diving save to his right on Nate Robinson's waist-high shot from 16 yards in the 85th minute.
