Video Highlights and Post-Game Comments
BALTIMORE-Senior forward Levi
Houapeu (Germantown, Md./Watkins Mill) scored with 22
seconds remaining in the first overtime period to give host UMBC
(3-2-0) a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over La Salle (0-3-1) at
UMBC Stadium.
Houapeu's goal, his fifth of the young season, capped a
Retriever comeback, as freshman forward Pete Caringi
III (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall) tied the game with 5:01
remaining.
After a scoreless first half, UMBC blistered La Salle netminder
John McCarthy with shots early in the second half, but the visitors
scored on one of their lone forays of the stanza. In the
55th minute, senior midfielder Ryan Richter blasted
a screened shot into the right side of the net from 20 yards
away.
UMBC continued to pressure and La Salle sophomore midfielder
Jeff Rio received his second caution with 5:07 remaining and was
ejected from the game. On the ensuing play, sophomore
midfielder Milo
Kapor (Woodbridge, Ont./Emily Carr) served a ball, which
junior midfielder Narav Kadam (Germantown, Md./Northwest/UNCG)
flicked deep into the box. Caringi ran onto it and chipped it in
the far right corner from six yards away for his third goal of the
campaign.
On the game-winning play, Kadam captured the ball on the right
slde and slid a short pass to Houapeu. The nation's leading scorer
from a year ago, drove toward the right post and hit a low liner
which beat McCarthy just inside the bar.
UMBC pumped 24 shots at goal and McCarthy made nine saves. UMBC
sophomore netminder Phil
Saunders (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) had three
saves for the victors.
The Retrievers are 3-0-0 this season and have won 13 consecutive
September home games dating back to 2007.
UMBC travels to Emmitsburg, Md., to take on Mount St. Mary's on
Saturday,Sept. 18.
