Men's Soccer

Rams Use Late Goal to Clip Men's Soccer Evangels, 2-1

Ft. Worth, Texas – George Battersby scored with less than three minutes remaining to lift the Texas Wesleyan University Rams to a 2-1 win over the Mid-America Christian University Evangels tonight (Oct. 4) in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Battersby's score came at the 87:34 mark off an assist from Alejandro Rey.

Early in the first half, Andy Ochoa put the Evangels on top first with a score from Caleb Roldan at the 9:01 point.

The Evangels maintained that lead until the 66th minute when Micah Day scored off a free kick from Eder Falcon to tie the score at 1-1.

The Rams held narrow edges in both shots (18-15) and shots-on-goal (8-6).

Gleydson Neri led the Evangels (2-8, 0-3 SAC) with five shots, while Ochoa, Justin Camacho and Vinny Vilela each had two shots.

Jakob O'Meara-Gill stopped six shots in the net for MACU and Marko Jovanovic recorded five saves for the Rams (5-7, 2-1 SAC).

The Evangels will next be in action at Bacone College next Tuesday night (Oct. 11) at 4 p.m. in Muskogee, Okla. 

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