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@HerdMSoccer Drops Match to South Carolina
10/2/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Marshall men's soccer team fell 2-1 at South Carolina Sunday night. Marshall falls to 5-6-0 and 1-2-0 in Conference USA action. South Carolina improves to 7-3-0 and 2-0-0 in C-USA.
In the first half the Herd out shot South Carolina six to five, but it was the Gamecocks who found the back of the net first in the 38th minute. Marshall went in at the half trailing 1-0.
Senior Daniel Jodah scored his team leading third goal of the season in the 55th minute when he punched it in to the far post from about nine yards out. Jodah received the assist from freshman Paul Whitener. It was Whitener's team leading fourth assist of the year.
The two squads battled back and forth over the next 24 minutes until South Carolina pushed across the goal ahead goal in the 79th minute off of a free kick from 25 yards out.
Freshman Trevor Clemens made the start in goal for the Herd and recorded two saves as South Carolina finished with 14 shots and four on goal. The Herd ended the match with 11 shots and three on goal.
The match ended South Carolina's streak of three straight contests scoring at least three goals.
COACH'S CORNER
Assistant Coach Thomas Olivier:
"I thought it was another good competitive C-USA game tonight. Credit South Carolina for winding a way to grind it out and win."
"We performed quite well overall and were resilient to battle back and earn a good goal not long after theirs. After that both teams can argue they had a good case for a second goal, I think, and it was back and forth. We defended more efficiently after the break and had the ball more in their half. But, they seized their moment and we didn't so that's disappointing."
"As we usually do, we will regroup and bounce back. We did compete well and we played hard the entire gameââ'¬Â¦two good positives. Once we put the needed final touches on a solid 90 minute performance, we will be in good shape."
UP NEXT
Marshall returns home to Hoops Family Field to take on Liberty in the final non-conference home match of 2016, Saturday Oct. 8 with kickoff at 1 p.m.
