Gamecocks succeed against Old Dominion
By natalee stanton | Nov. 1, 2015South Carolina men's soccer defeated Old Dominion on a clear Halloween Night and kept their undefeated home record going with a final score of 3-1.
South Carolina men's soccer defeated Old Dominion on a clear Halloween Night and kept their undefeated home record going with a final score of 3-1.
After an interesting preseason, the men’s soccer team opens up the 2015 regular season against Mercer, a team who went 14-7 in the 2014 season.
With a record of 10-10 and a 3-5 conference play, the Gamecocks need to improve on some of their major flaws.
If the Gamecocks’ 7-7-5 record from a year ago strikes you as unimpressive, head coach Mark Berson thinks you should look again. A quartet of road losses to open up the season paired with a number of key injuries threw much of Berson’s freshman class into the fire early in the year. But he thinks the team is better for it. “We got off to a slow start, but I think what I was most pleased about with the group last year was their mental toughness,” Berson said.
The demeanor of the women’s soccer team immediately shifts when any mention of the Stanford game occurs.
Local soccer fans, especially ones interested in “U-S-A” chants and other general ruckus, can find comradery and solidarity at two Columbia establishments in particular: Cock N’ Bull Pub and British Bulldog Pub.
Clint Dempsey took the pass from Jermaine Jones, traversing the pitch and turning the Ghana defender completely around in the process.
When junior keeper Sabrina D’Angelo was knocked over clearing a routine dump-in in the 14th minute, South Carolina hadn’t recorded a shot and the match had been played primarily in the Gamecocks’ defensive half.
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