The Result
St. Olaf 3, Saint Mary's 0 • Box Score
Conference Standings
Through Saturday, Oct. 21, 2000
Up Next
Wednesday, Oct. 25: at Rockford, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28: Hamline, 1 p.m.
WINONA, Minn. — Heading into Saturday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game, the Saint Mary's University and St. Olaf men's soccer teams had 12 losses between them — and all 12 losses had come by one goal.
So, it's a safe assumption that when the final horn sounded Saturday, the end result would be a one-goal game, right?
Wrong.
The Oles scored one minute into the second half, then added two more goals late in a six-minute span late in the half, en route to a 3-0 victory at Ochrymowycz Field.
"We played horrible, just horrible," said SMU coach Brad Hauter, whose team dropped to 3-4-1 in the conference and 7-7-1 overall, while St. Olaf kept its conference title hopes alive, improving to 6-1-0 in the MIAC and 8-6-0 overall. "That's the worst I've seen us play in I don't know how long — probably all season. We played uninspired, passion-less soccer, and it showed."
The teams battled to a 0-0 first-half tie, with SMU missing a pair of golden scoring opportunities when Shawn Stewart (Johnsburg, Ill.) missed on a breakaway and Brad Fox (Woodstock, Ill.) rifled a point-blank shot just wide.
Having dodged those two first-half bullets, the Oles quickly cashed in in the second half, getting a goal from Kully Nelson just one minute into the second half. Jason Bezdicek converted a direct kick from 18 yards out at the 80-minute mark to make it 2-0 and Evan Burns completed the scoring six minutes later.
"I'm shocked at how flat we came out today, especially considering how well we played Wednesday (in a 1-1 tie with league-leading Macalester)," said Hauter, whose team returns to action Wednesday, traveling to Rockford for a 4 p.m. nonconference game. "Everyone on this team knows how poorly we played — how they handle it will determine what happens to this team from here on out."
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