Courtesy of UofRAthletics.com
BROCKPORT, N.Y. – Geoffrey Rouin and Redd Brown work at opposite ends of the field. One puts the ball in the net; the other one keeps it out. They were both on form Monday evening as Rochester defeated The College at Brockport, 2-0, at Bob Boozer Field in Special Olympics Stadium on the Brockport campus.
The win is the 10th of the season for Rochester against two losses and two ties. UR has won four in a row by shutout. Brockport is 10-5-3.
Rouin scored two goals – one 13 minutes into the second half and the other with less than three minutes to play. It boosted his total to 11 goals this year. He is the first Rochester men’s player to score that many goals in a season since J.J. Dennstedt scored 11 in 2008 – for a Yellowjacket team that advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and finished 14-3-2.
Brown picked up his eighth shutout of the season. He made his only save eight minutes into the match. Rochester’s defense did a steady job of keeping Brockport from finding shooting space and pathways to the goal. UR held an 11-10 edge on total shots, but the Golden Eagles had only one shot on goal, none on target in the last 82 minutes.
You have to go back to the 2009 record book to find the last time a Rochester goalkeeper registered eight or more complete clean sheets in a season. Michael Peacock did it in back to back seasons. In 2009, Peacock had eight solo shutouts and shared two others for a Yellowjacket team that finished 14-2-3 with one of the losses a 2-1 decision against top-ranked Messiah College on the road in the Elite 8 of the NCAA playoffs. A year before, Peacock had eight solos and shared one more for that 14-3-2 club.
Rouin broke the scoreless deadlock in the 58th minute. Stefan Sarkovich was in the middle of a scrum deep in the penalty area. Sarkovich’s shot was blocked, but Rouin got to the rebound and rapped it into the lower left corner beyond the reach of Brockport goalkeeper Joseph Romano (six saves).
With the game clock winding under three minutes to go, Rouin and Alex Di Perna counterattacked two on one. Di Perna slid the ball over to Rouin and he finished to the low left corner again. It came just 40 seconds after Rouin came back onto the pitch as a substitute.
Rochester finishes the regular season with three straight road games in the University Athletic Association. The Yellowjackets play at Case Western Reserve on Friday night, go to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh on Sunday morning, and finish at Emory University on November 4.
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