Mountain Cats Fall to Seton Hill on Senior Day

10/19/2010

Seton Hill University built a 2-0 with 12 minutes left to play and held on to defeat the Mountain Cat soccer team, 2-1, on Tuesday afternoon on Senior Day at the Pitt-Johnstown Soccer Field. Bryce DeLizio (Chandler, AZ) netted the Mountain Cats' goal late in the match, but it wasn't enough, as Pitt-Johnstown slipped to 7-6-0 overall and 4-4-0 in the WVIAC.
MacDonald Taylor, Jr. gave the Griffins a 1-0 advantage 12 minutes into match, before Kevin Behar made it 2-0 when he found the back of the net on a loose ball in the box in the 78th minute.
Pitt-Johnstown cut it to 2-1 seven minutes later on DeLizio's goal off of Josh Wentz' (Greentown, Pa.) assist, but the Mountain Cats could not score the game-tying goal.
Mike Cuccaro (Pittsburgh, Pa.) faced 14 shots and made four save for Pitt-Johnstown. Jon DeLuca saw 18 Mountain Cat shots and made four saves for Seton Hill.
At halftime of the match, Pitt-Johnstown recognized this year's seniors...Andy Griffin (Dillsburg, Pa.), Kevin Kearney (Wexford, Pa.), Jeff Linnenbach (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), J.P. Schantz (Nazareth, Pa.) and Brian Taslov (Coraopolis, Pa.).
The Mountain Cats travel to Shippensburg University for a non-conference match on Saturday, before visiting Shepherd (WV) University for a WVIAC match on Wednesday, October 27.

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