Soccer concludes with loss
The GCSU soccer team ended their 2010 season this past Tuesday when they suffered a heartbreaking defeat against North Georgia in penalty kick shootout in overtime of the Peach Belt Conference Quarterfinals.
When the Bobcats and the Saints began the Quarterfinals playoff game, they both were playing aggressively. North Georgia managed to strike first after 22:24 had passed, they managed to land a header into the GCSU net for a 1-0 lead.
For the remainder of the first half, neither team was able to score again and the half ended with the Bobcats trailing the Saints by one goal.
At the start of the second half, both teams continued to play aggressively. However, when 64:52 of the game had passed, North Georgia scored again on the Bobcats to secure a two-goal cushion.
When less than 20 minutes remained in the game, the Bobcats were able to strike back when senior defender/midfielder Ally Treat, with an assist from senior forward Jessica Newland, sent a shot into the back of the Saints’ net to make the score 2-1 with GCSU trailing.
Senior midfielder Ally Treat had two second half goals Tuesday in a 3-2 shootout loss to North Georgia in the first round of the PBC tournament. The loss ended the 2010 season for the Bobcats
Less than three minutes later, Treat struck again and scored again on North Georgia to tie the score at 2-2. When Treat scored her second goal of the game, she was unassisted.
For the remainder of the 90 minutes, neither team was able to break the 2-2 tie and the game was sent into overtime.
After a ten-minute period of overtime, the score was still tied a 2-2 and the game was sent into a second period of overtime.
After the second ten-minute period of overtime passed, the two teams still remained in a deadlock.
In a regular season game, this would have been determined a tie but because it was a playoff game in the Quarterfinals, a winner had to be decided from a penalty kick shootout.
Although both teams battled hard tin the penalty kick shootout, the Saints managed to net six penalty kicks to the Bobcats’ five and the Bobcats were defeated in the PBC Quarterfinals in a penalty kick shootout.
“I’m actually really happy with way everything went, I think we left it all out there on the field and played as hard as we could and ended up in PKs so I think we did well,” Treat said. “I think our greatest strength was the mental aspect of it, I think we all came out there and came together as a team and knew that we had to play our game and we brought it out there and just stuck together.”
On Oct. 23 the Bobcats suffered a 1-0 shut-out defeat against Columbus State.
When less than two minutes had passed in the second half, the Cougars scored an unassisted goal on the Bobcats to secure a 1-0 lead.
The Bobcats had their second tie of the season on Oct. 27 when they tied USC Aiken on the Pacers’ field with a score of 1-1.
Although both teams played aggressively, the first goal of the game did not come until 41:27 when USC Aiken placed a header into the GCSU net off of a corner kick for a 1-0 advantage.
At the start of the second half, GCSU wasted no time in striking back when sophomore defender/midfielder Haley O’Hayer placed an unassisted goal into the Pacers net to tie the game at 1-1.
After two rounds of overtime had passed the teams were still deadlocked and the game ended in a GCSU tie.
For her performance, O’Hayer was named the GCSU Athlete of the Week for her first time during the that week ended Oct. 31.
“I don’t feel like you can ever be satisfied with anything, you can always do better and there’s always something to improve on,” O’Hayer said. “There’s a lot to learn from this season so that next season we can come out and do what we didn’t do this season.”
The Bobcats suffered a loss on Oct. 30 in an away game against Montevallo.
Just eight minutes into the game, the Falcons placed a shot into the Bobcat net and pulled ahead 1-0.
“I’m very pleased with where we’ve come, to finish 500 on the season I think is a good showing for the program, it’s not the best and certainly we’re going to look to improve upon that every single year and continue to do well,” head coach Hope Clark said. “We finished where we were predicted, we had some big wins and some great challenges ahead of us and I think that the season as a whole was extremely positive.”
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