HARRISONBURG, Va., Aug. 31,
2012 -- James Madison (1-2-0) got
two goals each from senior All-America
Paul Wyatt and sophomore Josh Grant en route to a 6-1 win over St. Bonaventure (0-3-0) in men's soccer
Friday night in the opening round of the JMU/Fairfield Inn by Marriott
Invitational Tournament at
University Park.
In the day's first game, Virginia Tech (2-1-0) edged
Temple (0-1-0) 1-0, as the Hokies
scored the game's only goal on a penalty kick in the 56th minute.
In the
JMU game, Wyatt (Modbury, England/Ivybridge) got the Dukes on the scoreboard less
than five minutes into the match. Sophomore Boyd
Reid (Ajax, Ontario/Pickering) served
a ball from the left side of the field to the right side, where redshirt sophomore Steven Mashinski (Fairfax, Va./Chantilly) redirected the ball into
the box. Wyatt controlled the ball and
hit a left-footed volley from 10 yards to just left of the center of the goal.
Freshman Tom Fouhy (Buckinghamshire, England/Dr. Challoner's) gave
JMU a 2-0 lead at the half with a score in the 33rd minute. Fouhy got the ball off the St. Bonaventure
defense and dribbled 20 yards into the box, where he hit a low shot to the left
from 12 yards.
The Dukes had two other first-half shots that hit the crossbar, one by Grant (Plymouth,
England/Torpoint College) in the 30th minute and another by redshirt sophomore Jamal Umar (Herndon, Va./Chantilly) in the 39th minute.
The Bonnies' best chance in the opening half came when a sharply-angled shot by
junior James Reed (St. Charles, Ill./St.
Charles North) was saved by redshirt junior
goalkeeper Colin Newcity (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) in the 35th minute.
JMU scored twice in the opening five minutes of the second period, getting
goals from Wyatt just 1:03 into the half and from Grant at the 4:45 mark. Just over five
minutes later freshman Bjarki Aðalsteinsson
(Kópavogur, Iceland/Menntaskólinn
í Kópavogi) headed a free kick from redshirt
senior Christian McLaughlin (Herndon, Va./Herndon) into the net to push the Dukes' lead to 5-0. Then in the 68th minute Grant scored off a
pass from Fouhy.
St. Bonaventure got on the scoreboard in the 73rd minute when senior Adam Scott (Rutherglen, Scotland/John
McCrae) intercepted a JMU pass and beat Newcity with a shot from 10 yards out.
In the day's first game, Virginia Tech junior Jed
Prater (Somersby, Australia/Narabeen Sports) converted a penalty kick in
the 56th minute, hitting a low, hard shot just to
the right of center of the goal. Temple sophomore goalkeeper Dan Scheck (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) partially blocked the
ball, but the momentum of the shot carried the ball into the goal.
The penalty was assessed after a Temple defender was called for a foul
on a Virginia Tech player near the end line.
With 26:40 left in game, an apparent Temple goal was called back for
offside. Junior
Vaughn Spurrier (Cleveland, Ohio/St.
Ignatius) crossed the ball into the box from the right side to the far
post, where senior Cody Calafiore (Howell, N.J./Howell) headed the ball into
the net, but was ruled offside.
With 13:29 left in game, Temple freshman Jared Martinelli (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland
Valley) sent a ball into the box from the right side. Redshirt sophomore Chas Wilson (West Chester, Pa./Salesianum)
hit a point-blank shot at Tech junior goalkeeper Kyle Renfro (Forest, Va./Brookville),
who stopped the ball with a kick save at the goal line at the left corner of
the goal.
NOTES:
* The Fairfield Inn by
Marriott Tournament continues Sunday, Sept. 2:
noon, Virginia Tech vs. St.
Bonaventure; 2:30 p.m. JMU vs.
Temple.
