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May 14, 2008
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Allegheny Ties NCAA Record With Tie of Wooster Oct 25, 2005 WOOSTER, Ohio – The Allegheny College Gators (7-6-4, 5-2-1 NCAC) secured their bid into the NCAC Championships on Tuesday evening with a 1-1 tie against the Scots of Wooster. With the tie, the Gators also tie an NCAA Division III record for most overtime games in a season with seven. The squad tied the mark originally set by Ithaca in 1995 and was tied by a pair of NCAC schools, Ohio Wesleyan in 2001 and Kenyon this season. Wooster (9-3-3, 4-3-1 NCAC) jumped in front early with a goal just 5:03 into the game when Nick Waychoff took a Brian Conaway pass and beat Gator keeper Brian Manougian (Rye, N.H./Portsmouth), giving the hosts a 1-0 lead. Neither team was able to reach the back of the net for the rest of the half, sending the game into halftime with a 1-0 Wooster lead.
Neither team was able to find the back of the net again in regulation, and two ten-minute overtime periods were not enough to find a winner, as the teams tied, the fourth of the season for Allegheny and the third for Wooster. Manougian spent the entire 110 minutes in goal, stopping a total of six shots, while his counterpart in the Wooster goal, David Treleven stopped five shots in the game. The tie brings AC’s win-loss-tie point total (3 points for a win, one point for a tie) to 16 on the season, while Wooster has 13 and Wittenberg has 11. Wittenberg has a pair of games remaining with Wabash and Wooster still on the schedule. Regardless of the outcome of Wednesday’s Wittenberg vs. Wabash score, the winner of Saturday’s Wittenberg vs. Wooster game will take the fourth and final spot into the league playoffs. Wooster can at best gain 16 points, while a pair of wins would catapult Wittenberg to 17. Ohio Wesleyan and Oberlin have also already guaranteed their spot into the playoffs. The Gators play host to Ohio Wesleyan in their final regular season game of the year this Friday, October 28, at 4:00 p.m. With a win, the Gators would help secure a second seed into the championships, and a first round home game in the NCAC playoffs.
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A pair of Pittsburgh Mt. Lebanon graduates teamed up for the Gators in the second half as sophomore Eric Sloan headed the ball to Erik Johnson, who headed the ball past the Wooster keeper, knotting the game at one apiece with nearly 40 minutes to play in the game.
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