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Date: October 29, 2005
Contact: Bill Sodoma

 

Bates battles back for win over Colby in men's soccer

WATERVILLE, Maine ---- David Shear (Concord, Mass.) scored his second goal of the game in overtime to lift the Bates College men's soccer team to a 3-2 come-from-behind win over Colby College on Saturday in New England Small College Athletic Conference action.

Bates (9-3-2, 4-3-2) earned the fifth seed in the NESCAC playoffs and will play a quarterfinal game at No. 4 Amherst College on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Colby ends its season at 7-7.

After a scoreless opening half, Colby went up 2-0 on goals by Chris MacFadyen (Providence, R.I.) and Bobby Abendroth (Natick, Mass.) about 10 and 11 minutes into the second half. Monty Hankin (Canandaigua, N.Y.) had the assist on the first goal and Logan King (Braintree, Mass.) assisted on the second score.

Bates mounted its comeback in the final 10 minutes of regulation. Shear scored in the 82nd minute to cut the margin in half and then Ithai Schori (New York, N.Y.) tied the game about two minutes later.

Bates 3, Colby 2, OT

Bates 0#2#1------3

Colby 0#2#0------2

2nd half

C: Chris MacFadyen (Monty Hankin), 55th minute

C: Bobby Abendroth (Logan King), 56th minute

B: David Shear, 82nd minute

B: Ithai Schori, 84th minute

1st OT

B: David Shear, 96th minute

Shots: Bates 13, Colby 18. Corner kicks: Bates 2, Colby 6.

Goalies: Aaron Schleicher (Bates, 5 saves); Josh Kahane (Colby, 7 saves).