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Hakeem Rabiu Adams
Maureen Pasley, FLC Athletics
4
Winner Fort Lewis FLCMSOC (7-3-3/5-3-1 RMAC)
3
Dixie State DSMS (6-6-1/5-4-0 RMAC)
Winner
Fort Lewis FLCMSOC
(7-3-3/5-3-1 RMAC)
4
Final
3
Dixie State DSMS
(6-6-1/5-4-0 RMAC)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 OT 2 F
Fort Lewis FLCMSOC 1 2 0 1 4
Dixie State DSMS 2 1 0 0 3

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | David Wilson, Assistant AD-Communications

FLC men's soccer rallies from a pair of two-goal deficits for 4-3 road win over Dixie State

ST. GEORGE, Utah — The Fort Lewis College men's soccer team put a halt to a three-game slid in emphatic fashion on Friday, rallying from a pair of two-goal deficits to earn a gritty 4-3 road win in double overtime against Dixie State University.

The cherry on top the Skyhawks (7-3-3 overall, 5-3-1 RMAC) was getting a little revenge against the Trailblazers (6-6-1 overall, 5-4 RMAC), who beat Fort Lewis back on Oct. 6 in Durango.

"This win was huge. Our losing streak started with that first loss to Dixie, so there was a loot of motivation to go out there and get three points," said Fort Lewis head men's soccer coach, David Oberholtzer.

Those three points wouldn't come easy as Fort Lewis fell into a 2-0 hole early within the first 16 minutes and change as Dixie State struck for goals at 11:17 and 16:38.

Fort Lewis was able to right the ship before half as redshirt junior forward Hakeem Rabiu netted his third of the season at the 37:30 mark to cut the deficit in half going into the break.

"Getting that one right before the half was huge," said Oberholtzer of Rabiu's goal. "The guys never quit and never quit believing that we could come back. Then we were able to come out in the second half and play well."

Medina Moises briefly made it a 3-1 advantage for the Trailblazers with a penalty kick goal in the 68th minute, but the momentum was short lived as Fort Lewis redshirt sophomore AJ Haskell, playing for the injured senior captain Marshall Metzger, capitalized on a corner kick opportunity just 66 seconds later.

"AJ was fantastic and had a huge game filling in for Marshall," Oberholtzer said. "The ball was played to the box and bounced around in traffic a little bit before AJ was able to settle it down and put it away."

The Skyhawks then pulled even with Dixie State in the 73rd minute, courtesy of redshirt sophomore Loic Jean-Baptiste finding pay dirt with his team-leading fifth goal of the season.

Jean-Baptiste took a feed from junior forward Ryan Lee in the middle of the box and buried the equalizer to force overtime.

Following a scoreless first extra session, junior forward Brantley Bice sent the Skyhawks off the field happy 4:31 into the second overtime period as he finished off a pass from freshman Matt Baldridge.

"Brantley was phenomenal all game and you just felt like he deserved a goal for his body of work throughout the game," Oberholtzer said. "It was awesome to see him put that away and watch us run off with three points."

The resiliency shown by the Skyhawks on Friday was something Oberholtzer said he has come to expect with this group, and a moment they will look to build off of as they close out their Utah trip with a 1 p.m. Sunday matchup against Westminster College.

"It's one of those things where I always have full confidence in the group's ability and what they're capable of doing," Oberholtzer said. "It'd have been easy to give up when we went down 2-0 and again when we were down 3-1. But there was never a time where the group looked like they were going to make that choice. They were always chasing that next goal."
 
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