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The Daily OrangeMSOC | Late goal by Perevegyencev snaps 4-game losing streak
By Kyle Austin
Posted: 10/15/07, 1:12 AM EST Section: Sports
Tom Perevegyencev knew his legs were going to give out any minute.
Eighty-eight minutes into a 0-0 tie with Cincinnati, the Syracuse forward could feel the cramps setting in all through his legs. Minutes earlier, he had watched Hansen Woodruff, his team's leading scorer, leave the game clutching his left hamstring. Forward Spencer Schomaker had left after bumping heads earlier in the game.
As the temperatures dropped and the rain began to fall, Perevegyencev tried his best to put the pain out of mind, knowing his team, in the middle of a four-game losing streak and struggling to stay alive in the Big East, needed a goal.
As he took a pass deep in Bearcats territory, Perevegyencev knew the defenders would be as tired as he was, and mustered the last of his strength to dribble past two of them along the goal line and bury a shot into the left side of the net.
"I saw Kyle (Hall) in there, but I thought, 'The defense is tired, I'm tired, I'm going to give it a last shot.' And it worked out," Perevegyencev said.
Syracuse (5-4-3, 2-4) clung to the 1-0 lead and snapped its four-game losing streak at the expense of Cincinnati (5-6-1, 3-2-1) in front of 776 fans Saturday night at the Syracuse Soccer Stadium. After the game, no one could deny the importance of the goal or of the win. Syracuse head coach Dean Foti called the game a must-win for his team to stay alive in the Big East hunt.
"We had lost four games," Foti said. "We needed to get back to doing the things that we were doing early on in the season. And I thought some of those things showed up tonight, and when we do those things, we put ourselves in a position to win games."
The Orange had battled the Bearcats evenly throughout, recording 12 shots to UC's 13. Both goalies saw five shots come their way - SU goalie Rob Cavicchia stopped all five of his shots to bring his season total to 203. He is the sixth goalie in SU history to record 200 saves.
Eighty-eight minutes into a 0-0 tie with Cincinnati, the Syracuse forward could feel the cramps setting in all through his legs. Minutes earlier, he had watched Hansen Woodruff, his team's leading scorer, leave the game clutching his left hamstring. Forward Spencer Schomaker had left after bumping heads earlier in the game.
As the temperatures dropped and the rain began to fall, Perevegyencev tried his best to put the pain out of mind, knowing his team, in the middle of a four-game losing streak and struggling to stay alive in the Big East, needed a goal.
As he took a pass deep in Bearcats territory, Perevegyencev knew the defenders would be as tired as he was, and mustered the last of his strength to dribble past two of them along the goal line and bury a shot into the left side of the net.
"I saw Kyle (Hall) in there, but I thought, 'The defense is tired, I'm tired, I'm going to give it a last shot.' And it worked out," Perevegyencev said.
Syracuse (5-4-3, 2-4) clung to the 1-0 lead and snapped its four-game losing streak at the expense of Cincinnati (5-6-1, 3-2-1) in front of 776 fans Saturday night at the Syracuse Soccer Stadium. After the game, no one could deny the importance of the goal or of the win. Syracuse head coach Dean Foti called the game a must-win for his team to stay alive in the Big East hunt.
"We had lost four games," Foti said. "We needed to get back to doing the things that we were doing early on in the season. And I thought some of those things showed up tonight, and when we do those things, we put ourselves in a position to win games."
The Orange had battled the Bearcats evenly throughout, recording 12 shots to UC's 13. Both goalies saw five shots come their way - SU goalie Rob Cavicchia stopped all five of his shots to bring his season total to 203. He is the sixth goalie in SU history to record 200 saves.
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