ERIE, Pa. — New Haven men's soccer dropped their match up on Sunday afternoon to Mercyhurst 1-0 . The Chargers were held to two shots, one on goal, while Mercyhurst finished with a 16-2 shot advantage. With the loss, New Haven drops to 2-9-2 and 1-1-2 in the NEC.
Shane Antao (New Hyde Park, N.Y./New Hyde Park Memorial) played all 90 minutes in goal and recorded three saves while allowing one goal.
Cristopher Arias (Riverhead, N.Y./Riverhead) finished with one shot and put it on goal.
The Chargers held Mercyhurst scoreless through an early stretch of pressure, getting through 11 attacking actions from 6:54 to 18:50 while Antao made saves on shots by Alvar Silva and Idahir Deanda. Mercyhurst broke through at 34:02 when Luis Felipe Santos scored off assists from Santiago Giraldo and Silva, putting the Blue & Gold behind 1-0.
New Haven answered with its first recorded shots late in the half, as
Andres Lazo (Montville, N.J./Montville) had an attempt at 38:33 and Arias put a shot on frame at 39:25 that Jaime Tedaldi saved. Antao added another save in the final minute on Joe Chinchilla, and the Chargers went into halftime trailing 1-0.
The Chargers held Mercyhurst scoreless over the final 45 minutes but could not add a goal of their own, and the match finished with Mercyhurst ahead 1-0. The Blue & Gold worked through a stretch from 53:56 to 63:56 that included three fouls against them, a Mercyhurst foul and a yellow card to Benjamin Buckley, then created set-piece chances with corner kicks at 65:00 and 69:20.
Mercyhurst generated pressure from 66:21 to 72:22, but the Chargers recorded a team save on a shot by Santos and came through two Mercyhurst corners and two additional shots without conceding. The closing minutes grew stop-start, with yellow cards to
Marco Nazor (Upper Saddle River, N.J./Bergen Catholic),
Renford Morgan (Kingston, Jamaica/Jamaica College) and
Trevor Pegg (Darien, Conn./Darien) as the Blue & Gold saw out a scoreless second half.
Up Next
New Haven will travel to Washington, D.C., to face Howard University on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 11 a.m.
