MSOC | Gaels Can't Slow Down Oregon State In Corvallis

Friday, October 15

Corvallis, OR

7:00 PM

Saint Mary's College of California

8-4-1, 1-0-1

Oregon State

8-1-2, 3-0-1

Saint Mary's (CA)

Oregon St.

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Photo by: Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner

MSOC | Gaels Can't Slow Down Oregon State In Corvallis

10/15/2021 9:14:00 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Saint Mary's Men's Soccer team (8-4-1, 1-0-1) couldn't quite slow down the scoring punch of the #13 team in the country as Oregon State (8-1-2, 3-0-1) defeated the Gaels 4-0 in a non-conference match up Friday night.

The Beavers struck quickly in the 14th minute as a cross into the six-yard box found Oregon State's Adrian Crespo in between a pocket of defenders and he slid down to a knee to redirect it in with his right foot for a 1-0 Beavers lead.

In the 22nd minute a long pass that looked offsides to the Gaels set up Adrian Molina-Diaz behind the Saint Mary's defense and he blasted a left-footed shot across the goal mouth at point-blank range to put Oregon State up 2-0.

The Gaels had an opportunity to cut it to a one-goal game in the 34th minute. Gael Quintero forced a takeaway in the Gaels defensive end and Riley Lynch scooped it up and raced through the Beavers defense. Lynch and Valentin Kurz executed a beautiful give-and-go and when Lynch got it back he drew a penalty in the box. But on the penalty shot, Sebastian Schacht's blistering attempted to the lower-left corner of the goal was stopped on a miraculous, diving attempt by the Oregon State keeper to preserve the shutout.

Oregon State wasted no time expanding their lead in the second half. In the 47th minute Tyrone Mondi had space in the penalty area and boomed a left-footed shot into the upper right corner of the net to make it 3-0 Oregon State. In the 64th minute a long lead to Tyrone Mondi set him up perfectly in the 18-yard box and got the Gaels defenders twisted around as he scored his second goal of the night on a right-footed shot at the edge of the six-yard box.

UP NEXT
The Gaels will return home and return to conference play on Saturday, October 23 when they host the University of the Pacific at 1:00 p.m. at Saint Mary's Stadium.