Bulldogs Move into the Championship Game with 2-0 Win over Campbell
November 03, 2006 | Men's Soccer
Deland, F.L. – The Gardner-Webb men's soccer team moved one step closer to their team goal of winning the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship on Friday night, defeating the #3 seeded Campbell Fighting Camels in the semifinals, 2-0.
In Gardner-Webb's first ever Atlantic Sun Conference Championship tournament match, the #2 seeded Bulldogs looked like the more experienced team, as they consistently put pressure on the Camels throughout the match, controlling the ball in their half and out shooting the Camels 10-5 over the first period, including putting six of those 10 shots on frame.
GWU's Chris Salvaggione had perhaps the ‘Dogs best chance to score in the first half denied by Campbell's keeper Aaron Johnson, when in the 14th minute Salvaggione got not one but two shots off, getting behind the Campbell defense.
Senior captain Tyler Kettering was solid and the net for the ‘Dogs in the first period, corralling three Camel shots, pushing the score to a 0-0 tie at the half.
From the beginning of the second half and on, Setzer's squad dominated play again out shooting the Camels 12-6 for the half.
Salvaggione got the ‘Dogs on the scoreboard at the 56:00 mark, when Miguel Pinzone put a ball through the Campbell defense and hitting a streaking Salvaggione nine yards out in the middle of the box. Salvaggione took one touch and put the ball past a diving Johnson to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.
The ‘Dogs insurance goal came 11 minutes later, when at the 65:01 mark a Campbell foul set up a free kick for the Bulldogs. On a set play, GWU's Pinzone took the free kick, passing the ball to a cutting Richard Godfrey, who then made a great pass behind the Campbell wall to a slicing Boris Gatzky who took a shot from the left side of the box. Gatzky's shot was deflected by Campbell's keeper Aaron Johnson, to the right side of the box where Gardner-Webb freshman Logan Swaim found the ball and put a shot into the left side of the net, giving the ‘Dogs a 2-0 lead.
The goal was Swaim's first goal of his young career at Gardner-Webb.
Kettering proved to be too much in between the posts for the Camels, as he notched eight saves en route to picking up his sixth shutout on the season, the most he has had in one year over his four year stint at GWU.
The Bulldogs (8-7-3) will take on the #1 seeded and host team the Stetson Hatters, tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in Deland, Florida.
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