After nearly 110 minutes of play between Randolph College men’s soccer team and visiting Virginia Wesleyan, it took about five seconds for the WildCats to end it.
Randolph’s John Adams picked out Corey Sindle with a perfectly placed cross that Sindle headed home for the game-winner, 2-1, sending WildCats’ fans to bed happy, including one very sleepy 80-year-old grandmother in England who stayed up way past her bedtime to watch the webcast.
Sindle’s goal with a little over two minutes to play in the second overtime period sends Randolph (15-5) to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament championship on Saturday. The fourth-seeded WildCats will play the winner of today’s Lynchburg College-Eastern Mennonite semifinal. The eighth-seeded Marlins finish the season at 7-11-1.
If the sixth-seeded Hornets win, Randolph will host Lynchburg. If the second-seeded Royals win, the WildCats travel to Harrisonburg.
"It was a pretty scrappy game," Randolph coach Bryan Waggoner said. "My guys didn’t give up. I told the guys between overtimes to keep serving the ball. Good things are going to happen for us. John played a great ball in there and if Corey gets one chance, he is going to put it away and that’s what hew did. We are tremendously excited to be in this situation, but the guys are not going to be complacent. We want to bring home an ODAC championship. This school deserves one."
Adams, a sophomore left-back from E.C. Glass, found himself about 35 yards from the goal on the left flank with plenty of time and space to pick a runner in the box. Sindle, a sophomore and the only WildCat in the box, made a terrific diagonal run.
Coming from behind and off the right shoulder of the defender, Sindle slipped in front of the defender just as the ball arrived, rose up and snapped the header over the goalie and just under the bar.
VWC took an early lead rather unexpectedly. The Marlins earned a free kick deep in their own end and played a long ball to the top of Randolph’s penalty area where Brandon St. Amour won a flick on a header to Josh Christian. Christian hammered the ball into the goal past the helpless RC keeper for 1-0 lead in 22nd minute.
Randolph tied the match up with a little over four minutes to play in regulation when Jacob Lusczek curled a corner kick into the goal off the fingers of the VWC’s 5-7 goalie.
Prep cross country LCA girls first in BRC, boys second in VIC Liberty Christian Academy’s Abby Quigg came from behind and powered up a hill in the last 300 yards to capture the girls title at Tuesday’s Blue Ridge Conference cross country meet at the Miller School in Charlottesville, leading the Bulldogs to a team championship. Quigg earned all-conference honors along with Rebecca Roberts (fifth), Caroline Roberts (eighth) and Jami Maule (10th). Trey Fisher then ran a very calculated race and blew away his competition to claim the Virginia Independent Conference boys individual title and pace LCA to a second-place team showing, with teammate Ike Podell finishing fifth. The meets were postponed from Saturday due to wet trail conditions.
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