The Dominican University men's soccer team pushed through to the 2015 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Tournament championship match with a 3-2 win over the top-seeded Concordia University Wisconsin Falcons on Tuesday afternoon in Mequon, Wisconsin.
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The Falcons took an early 1-0 lead after Keegan Van Dusseldorp won the endline on the right side before serving a ball that Jordan Moehn knocked home in the third minute.
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Dominican regrouped and leveled the score before half when
Adam Yaghmour (Norridge, Ill.) collected a rebound after a flurry in the box and scored his sixth goal of the season in the 40th minute.
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The score remained even into the 64
th minute when Dominican was able to spring
Iven Hernandez (Antioch, Ill.) down the middle of the field. Drawing a defender as he took space, Hernandez slid a pass for
Jonathan Ramos (Naperville, Ill.) that put Ramos in a 1v1 with Alec Brew, the Falcons' goalkeeper. Brew raced off his line and Ramos carried past Brew before sliding a shot for his first goal of the season. Ramos finished with a goal and an assist in 33 minutes, managing three shots.
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Dominican's lead was short lived as the Falcons answered just three minutes later when Justin Clayton collected a bouncing ball in the box and chipped a shot past Dominican's
Gabriel Gongora (Naperville, Ill.) for his third strike of the season, tying the game at 2-2.
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Jonathan Arzeta (Des Plaines, Ill.) then scored the game-winner for Dominican in the 82
nd minute when one of the 20 fouls the Falcons were whistled for gave Dominican a restart in the Stars' attacking third.Â
Zack Venzon (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) chipped a ball to
Alex Rohder's (Orland Park, Ill.)Â head and Rohder flicked it across the box where Arzeta was able to tally his sixth goal of the season.
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A red card put Dominican down a man in the 86
th minute but the Stars were able to hold off the Falcons who managed just one shot over the final twenty minutes.
Concordia Wisconsin held a 14-10 advantage in shots, with each side putting seven shots on frame, while Dominican earned six corners and the Falcons earned two.
Gongora made five saves for the Stars while Brew managed four in goal for the Falcons.
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With the win, Dominican improves to 12-4-3 and advances to the NACC Tournament championship match for the tenth consecutive season where the Stars await the winner of tonight's NACC semifinal between Aurora University and MSOE.
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