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Black Bears Lose an Overtime Heartbreaker To Seawolves
The University of Maine (2-10-2, 0-5-2 AE) lost an overtime heartbreaker to the Stony Brook Seawolves (11-4-3, 6-1-1 AE) on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Field. Adam Chenault (Maineville, Ohio) scored both Maine goals.
Maine played inspired soccer for the first 32 minutes of the half and their hard work paid off as senior Adam Chenault (Maineville, Ohio) was able to find the back of the net twice. Twelve minutes into the game, senior captain Kevin Forgett (Wilmington, Mass.) served an early cross to the middle of the box where Chenault headed in his third goal of the season Chenault then connected on a penalty kick at the 25:37 mark to double the lead. Freshman Dimitri Anastasiou (Colchester, Conn.) popped the ball past a Stony Brook defender who knocked it down with his hand for the penalty. Chenault calmly stepped up and knocked his fourth goal of the year past an outstretched John Moschella. At the 32:29 minute mark - the game changed. A Black Bear defender and Stony Brook forward went up for the ball with Maine winning the header. The Stony Brook player flailed in the box and earned a penalty. Rob Fucci tucked the ball past senior goalkeeper Chad Mongeon (Essex Junction, Vermont). Immediately after the penalty, Mongeon was red-carded for something he said to the official. Freshman redshirt, Ben Piotrowski (Colchester, Vermont) stepped in and played admirably the rest of the way. Maine made some tactical adjustments and battled for the next 58 minutes still edging the Seawolves, 2-1. With two minutes left, Fucci scored a goal after the ball bounced around in box to send the game into overtime. With four minutes into the overtime, Douglas Narvaez hit a shot from the edge of the penalty box that went through a crowd and found its way inside the back post for the game winner to give Stony Brook the win and a first round bye in the America East playoffs. Coach Evans spoke highly of the effort and way his players battled, "I am so proud of this entire team. They played a man down for 60 minutes and you couldn't tell. They played their hearts out, and feel like it's been ripped out. This is not the way we wanted our seniors to remember Alumni Field." Maine will play it's final season game away at Albany on Wednesday, November 2. Kick-off is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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