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Quick kicks: State men's recap

11/11/2012, 10:14pm CST
By ERIC ANDERSON

The Marquette and UW-Milwaukee men's teams faced familiar foes in their respective conference tournaments.

One result ended up the same as the regular season, the other went the opposite direction, but both teams bowed out.

The Golden Eagles will play on in the NCAA tournament, while the Panthers' season is over. Get all the highlights in our weekly recap of the Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay men's teams.

Marquette (16-3-1, 5-2-1 Big East)

MarquetteFriday: No. 4 Georgetown 2, No. 10 Golden Eagles 1 (2OT).Freshman Brandon Allen scored off a corner kick with 1 minute left in the second overtime as the Hoyas (17-2-1) posted their second one-goal win of the season over Marquette, this time in the semifinals of the Big East Conference tournament. The match was played at PPL Park in Chester, Pa., having been moved there from Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., due to complications from Hurricane Sandy and the storm that hit the greater New York City area this week. Steve Neumann served in the corner kick from the right side and Tommy Muller flicked a header at the near post. The ball fell perfectly for Allen, who volleyed it off his shin past defender John Pothast and goalkeeper Charlie Lyon for his team-best 13th goal of the season. Neumann scored Georgetown's opener just before halftime, a goal set up by Jimmy Nealis' hard work. Nealis stayed with the ball after a challenge by Marquette junior midfielder Bryan Ciesiulka on the left side and got in behind right back Adam Hermsen (Appleton North) just enough to play a ball across the box. It just eluded two Golden Eagles defenders and reached Neumann on the right side, and he gathered the ball with his left foot, spun and fired a right-footed shot that pinged off the far post and past Lyon just 30 seconds before the break. Junior striker Adam Lysak (Milton) tied it up in fine fashion for Marquette in the 57th minute. He carried the ball in on the left side, played it to Ciesiulka and got it back at the top of the box. Lysak touched the ball around a defender and ripped a low, hard shot past Hoyas keeper Tomas Gomez from 16 yards out to the right post for his fifth of the season. Lyon finished with four saves and Gomez had six in the evenly matched game. Georgetown went on to lose to No. 7 Notre Dame 3-2 in double overtime in Sunday's final. Marquette will learn its NCAA assignment at 4:30 p.m. Monday; 32 teams will play first-round matches Thursday, while the top 16 teams will earn byes into Sunday's second-round games. Video highlights

Up next: NCAA tournament, Thursday or Sunday.

UW-Green Bay (2-10-4, 0-4-3 Horizon)

UW-Green Bay

Up next: Season complete.

 

UW-Milwaukee (8-8-2, 2-3-2 Horizon)

UW-MilwaukeeTuesday: Valparaiso 1, Panthers 0. Three days after beating the Crusaders to secure a spot in the Horizon League tournament, fifth-seeded UW-Milwaukee saw its season come to an end with a shutout loss to fourth-seeded Valparaiso (6-8-5) in the quarterfinals on a cold, rainy night in Indiana. Jaymie Bullard shook free of his mark and headed a cross from Todd Vervynckt past Panthers senior keeper John Shakon 22 seconds before halftime, and Kyle Zobeck needed to make just two saves for the clean sheet. Shakon finished with four saves in his collegiate finale. "I thought the guys fought hard," Panthers first-year coach Kris Kelderman said. "We kept ourselves in position to potentially get a result tonight, but we just weren't sharp enough in the final third and that has been our struggle pretty much all season long." Milwaukee ended up losing four of its final five games, with three of the defeats by 1-0 scorelines. However, the Panthers' eight wins are their most since 2006 and it was the program's first non-losing season since 2005. "I told the guys we had exceeded expectations this year in regards to preseason rankings and where the program has been the last handful of years," Kelderman said. "They should leave with their heads held high and extremely proud of their effort. They fought hard, they worked extremely hard and the results showed. ... I am excited the program is moving in a great direction." The Crusaders lost to second-seeded Cleveland State 1-0 in the semifinals, and the Vikings topped sixth-seeded Loyola (ll.) 2-0 in the final.

Up next: Season complete.

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