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Men's Soccer

Falcons Sink No. 18 Argonauts, 2-0

MONTEVALLO, Ala. - The University of Montevallo men's soccer team (14-4-0, 6-0-0 GSC) celebrated senior night, its first ever undefeated conference season and Halloween all while defeating No. 18 University of West Florida (12-3-2, 3-2-1 GSC), 2-0. The Falcons extended its win-streak to 12-straight games and wrapped up an undefeated conference season for the first time in school history.

The Falcons honored seven seniors following the match-up. The seniors were Bryan Cartmell (Columbia, Tennessee), Chris Castell (Portsmouth, England), Joe Gross (Marietta, Georgia), Jonathan Maloney (West Yorkshire, England), Kevin Ratigan (Alabaster, Alabama), James Ward (Chelmsford, England) and Jim Witherow (Huntsville, Alabama).

Maloney went out with a bang scoring a goal and assisting on another. His goal tied him for the All-Time lead in the Gulf South Conference with Barry Gibney (1998-01) who played at Christian Brothers.

The Falcons and Argonauts played 85 minutes of scoreless soccer before sophomore Milan Pualic (Subotica, Serbia) blasted a shot from the top of the box past the Argo keeper. Maloney and junior Lucas Manzoli (Sao Paulo, Brazil) had assists on the play. Just 29 seconds later Maloney connected on a pass from sophomore Nathaniel Foster (Brampton, Ontario) and scored the insurance goal with 3:10 to play.

Sophomore David Esser (Birmingham, Alabama) picked up his sixth shutout of the season while making three saves.

The Argonauts played 32 minutes with a man-down after one of their defenders picked up two yellow cards.

It was another physical Gulf South Conference contest with each team picking up 22 fouls and the referee handing out six cards.

The Falcons will return to action Friday, Nov. 7 at 7:00 p.m. as they take on Harding University in the first round of the GSC Tournament.

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