Hoping for its first road victory of the season, the VMI men’s soccer team fell on the road to USC Upstate by a 3-0 score Tuesday night at County University Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Upstate’s Gordon Wild, who scored four goals in the Spartans’ previous game against Presbyterian last weekend, added two goals against the Keydets with the first coming at the 12:24 mark, taking an assist from Leon Schwarzer and putting it into the net for an early 1-0 lead.
“We were good for 40 minutes of the first half, but the halves are 45 minutes,” said VMI head coach Jon Freeman. “We had the majority of play in their half of the field in the first half. We got too loose in our backline in the second. It isn’t good enough – I know it, the players know it and we have to fix it.”
The Keydet defense was on its heels for much of the game with the ball consistently on the VMI side of the pitch as Upstate logged 21 shots to VMI’s seven, including 10 on goal to two for the Keydets.
Travis Borkey and Todd Johnson tallied two shot attempts apiece for VMI while Upstate’s Wild had seven on the night. He would add another goal at the 59:17 mark of the second half before Michelangelo Dovidio put in another at 74:20 to lift the Spartans to the 3-0 victory.
VMI keeper Alex Guerra earned seven saves throughout the game while winning goalie Hassan Haddad registered two saves for Upstate.
The Keydets return to action Saturday for another road game to take on Liberty for a 6 p.m. start in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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