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 #8 Tampa Drops SSC Final To Barry 2-0
 TAMPA,
Fla. – The second-seeded and eighth-ranked University of Tampa
men’s soccer fell 2-0 to fourth-seeded Barry University on Sunday in the
finals of the Sunshine State Conference Tournament. The Spartans (15-2-1)
and Buccaneers (14-5-1) kept the match scoreless until the tournament’s Most
Outstanding Player Mark Anderson notched a goal in the 84th minute to give
BU the championship.
Despite outshooting the Buccaneers 23-14, the Spartans couldn’t get the
ball past SSC Freshman of the Year Johnny Rodrigues who made six saves in
the contest. With 6:27 left on the clock, Anderson took a hard shot from 20
yards out past SSC Defensive Player of the Year
Ryan Thompson.
Just over three minutes later, Anderson and Mark Kilpatrick broke away on a
2-on-1 in the Tampa end, with Kilpatrick scoring the final goal to put the
game away.
“There’s emotion and then there is championship emotion,” Spartan head
coach Adrian Bush
said following the game. “Today, Barry played with championship emotion and
deserved the win.
Our guys seemed to have so much passion when the final whistle blew—too
bad that started at 3 p.m. instead of 1 p.m. when we started the game.”
The Spartans now await the D-II selection show on Monday at 7 p.m. to
learn their opponent in the upcoming South Regional.
Bush continued, “Next Friday night we find out who we are. I’m confident
we will be ready—just as we have been the last three years in this same
situation.”
2009 SSC
All-Tournament Team
MOP – Mark Anderson, Barry
Johnny Rodrigues, Barry
Joao Garcia, Barry
Sascha Koettig, Barry
Rodrigo Mancenido, Barry
Lister Warren,
Tampa
Pascal Milien,
Tampa
Brian Fekete,
Tampa
Romain Onteniente, Nova Southeastern
JD Gruenewald, Rollins
Kyle Conrad, Lynn
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