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BALTIMORE- The UMBC men's soccer team won its fifth straight
match, defeating Binghamton, 3-0, in the regular season finale
played at Retreiver Soccer Park.
UMBC (10-4-4, 4-2-1) captured the second seed and a first-round
bye in the upcoming America East Conference Tournament and host the
winner of No. 6 Binghamton (6-10-0, 2-5-0) at No. 3 Stony Brook on
Wed., Nov. 7.
Junior forward Kadeem
Dacres (Rosedale, N.Y./Mercer County CC), sophomore
midfielder Mamadou
Kansaye (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) and junior
forward Pete Caringi
III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) were the goal scorers for
the Retrievers.
UMBC has scored 15 goals in its last three home games and
Caringi has recorded eight of those goals.
Dacres scored his fourth goal of the season and it turned out to
be the game-winning score in the 20th minute of
play. Kansaye led midfielder Milo Kapor (Toronto,
Ont./Emily Carr down the center of the field and the senior sent a
perfect pass through a pair of Bearcat defenders to Dacres. The
first-year Retreiver picked up the pass from 20 yards out and after
several touches lined a shot which hit the inside of the far right
post and settled in the goal to give the hosts the early
advantage.
The Retrievers outshot Binghamton, 13-4, in the first half and
scored two early second half goals to gain a comfortable margin. In
the 53rd minute, Kapor struck a hard shot from the
edge of the box which Bearcat netminder Stefano Frantelizzi saved,
but Kansaye pounced on the rebound and put it under the crossbar
from close range for his first goal in a UMBC jersey.
Caringi tallied his 14th goal of the season and
tenth in his last six games in typical style in the
65th minute. Deep on the right wing, Dacres dropped
a pass off to sophomore Spencer
Williams (Germantown, Md./Watkins Mill). The fullback low
serve found Caringi at the far post and the America East's leading
scorer headed it past Frantelizzi.
UMBC racked up 21 shots, outshooting the guests, 21-7. Junior
netminder Phil Saunuders (Perry Hall, Md./Perry Hall) was called
upon to make four saves in his sixth shutout of the season.
Frantelizzi recorded six saves for Binghamton.
The winning streak is UMBC's longest since opening the 2009
campaign with nine consecutive victories. They are 6-1-3 at home
this season.
