LC Men’s Soccer Wins Quarterfinal Match 4-1

[October 24, 2017] 

The Lincoln College Men’s Soccer team traveled to Heartland Community College on Saturday for the first round of play in Region 24 playoffs and came home with a 4-1 victory.

In the win over Heartland, LC came out strong early and scored right at the 1:00 minute mark. Sophomore Julian Roman (Waukegan) drove a free kick into the box and freshman Ignacio Ximenez (Lawrenceville, GA) was able to bring the ball down and calmly place it for the opening goal. The rest of the first half would be a back-and-forth affair until sophomore Tajay Small (Kingston, Jamaica) beat a defender and placed a perfect cross ahead to a running Petor Kromah (So. Springfield) who headed the ball into the goal to put the Lynx up 2-0.

The second half was a stalemate until LC’s leading scorer, Adrian Roman, was brought down in the box and awarded a penalty kick. Roman calmly slotted the PK to put his team up by 3. Minutes later, Heartland would receive a penalty kick opportunity of their own and score to make it 3-1. Lincoln bounced back quickly to score the final goal of the match when a Tajay Small shot rebounded off cross bar right to sophomore Peter Ukaegbu (Chicago) who tapped it in to effectively end the game.

“We had a game plan and the guys executed it well,” said Lincoln Coach Ben Massena. “We trained all week on how we could be successful in certain areas of the field. Scoring early helped us to stay on our game plan. I’m happy for the guys and it’s always great to win in playoffs against a tough team. They beat us last game so we knew it would be a tough match and we stepped up.”

The Lynx advance to play the #1 seeded Illinois Central College Cougars on Wednesday at ICC.

[Mark Tippett
Lincoln College
Sports Information]