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Late goal pushes Bears past visiting East Central

By: Michael D. Gunnell, Southwest Sports Information
Santiago Martinez

Men's Soccer | 9/20/2017 7:51:00 PM

A goal by Michael Escobar with 2:18 left in the contest helped the Bears end a three-game winless skid with a 2-1 non-division victory over the visiting East Central Warriors.
 
The win propelled the Bears to a 6-2-1 overall mark (they are 1-2-1 in the MACJC South). East Central dropped to 3-4-1.
 
The teams played to a scoreless tie and remained deadlocked at 0-0 until Francisco Romero found the back of the net at 62:01 to put the Warriors up 1-0.
 
A free kick by Santiago Martinez, over the wall of Warriors defenders and under the bar of the goal, at 81:06 knotted the game at 1-1.
 
Overtime seemed a definite possibility until a beautiful buildup play and unselfish passes allowed Escobar to score the game-winner on a pass from Martinez.
 
"It wasn't pretty," said Bears' head coach Zach Mills. "But, I'm really excited the guys were able to bring it together in the last few minutes and get two late goals."
 
Mills said he was very happy to see "the guys have that 'come-back attitude', even though we'd been kind of down lately and not feeling it. Then all of a sudden they said it's time to get back on track. It was nice."
 
The Bears return to action on September 24 when they travel to Alexandria to face the LSU-A JV Generals in a 3:00 matchup (the Lady Bears face the LSU-A Lady Generals at 1:00).
 
 
 
 
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Players Mentioned

Michael Escobar

#11 Michael Escobar

MF
5' 10"
Sophomore
Santiago Martinez

#13 Santiago Martinez

F
5' 7"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Michael Escobar

#11 Michael Escobar

5' 10"
Sophomore
MF
Santiago Martinez

#13 Santiago Martinez

5' 7"
Freshman
F