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Winner Fort Lewis FLC (14-3-6, 7-2-1)
0
Midwestern St. MSU (15-3-3, 7-2-1)
Winner
Fort Lewis FLC
(14-3-6, 7-2-1)
2
Final
0
Midwestern St. MSU
(15-3-3, 7-2-1)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Fort Lewis FLC 1 1 2
Midwestern St. MSU 0 0 0
David Citron at Midwestern State in the NCAA Tournament
Hayden Mangan, Fort Lewis Athletic Communications
David Citron (7) taking his penalty kick against the Mustangs down at Stang Park (Dec. 1, 2024)

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Hayden Mangan, Assistant AD-Communications & Fan Engagement

No. 17 Skyhawks advance to Super Region 4 finale with a 2-0 shutout over Mustangs

Martin makes a career-high 10 saves

WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Lucas Martin stared down 26 shots and made a career-high ten saves en route to helping No. 17 Fort Lewis (14-3-6) punch its ticket to the Super Region 4 final and NCAA Division II Men's Soccer National Quarterfinals with a 2-0 clean sheet over Lone Star Conference Tournament Champions and second-seeded Midwestern State (15-3-3) down at Stang Park in front of a crowd of 762.
 
Fort Lewis will travel to face two-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champions and top-seeded CSU Pueblo (15-3-3) next Saturday, Dec. 7, marking the fourth contest between the two conference opponents this season. The match time will be announced at a later date.
 
The Skyhawks fended off 26 shots in total, 10 of which were sent on goal, while applying pressure on the opposite end with 16 shots of their own, placing seven on goal. The Mustangs owned the narrow edge in corner kicks five-to-four and fouls eight-to-nine. Martin's ten saves earned the sophomore his region-leading tenth clean sheet of the season, which ranks fourth in DII. Fort Lewis, as a team, ranks fifth in DII with 11 total shutouts.
 
Five minutes into the action, Tomas Duenes came streaking into the top of the 18-yard box for a loose ball but was tripped by a Mustangs defender and earned a penalty kick. David Citron toed the line, the goalkeeper dove left, and Citron buried the ball to the right side for his seventh goal of the season.
 
Midwestern State's best chance to equalize came in the 26th minute when Martin sprinted out of the goal in an attempt to stop a Mustang forward who came streaking in from the left side. While Martin halted the attacking player, service was sent to the center of the box, leaving a wide-open goal, however, Jakob Larson lunged for a phenomenal team save to keep MSU out of goal.
 
Fort trailed narrowly in time of possession 44 percent to 56 percent for the opening half, but despite being shut out, Midwestern State came back in the second half to win the total time of possession 61 percent (55 minutes) to 39 percent (35 minutes).
 
Battling pressure to start the second half, the Skyhawks second opportunity came in transition at midfield when Duenes made a lunging forward pass through a quarter of Mustangs defenders to find Anton Hjalmarsson in stride, who then chipped the goalkeeper from 15 yards out to all but seal the match.
 
Citron and Hjalmarsson each fired shots on goal, while Duenes, Gabriel Legendre, and Theo Bergman each took a chance at goal as well. Midwestern State's Mere Escobar and Liam Pritchard took a game-high six shots each, with Escobar placing two on-goal. Josh Milla fired off a match-high four shots on goal in four attempts. MSU's Daniel Robles made four saves.
 
Notes
-Fort Lewis advances to the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer National Quarterfinals for the first time since winning the national championship back in 2011.
-The Skyhawks snapped a four-game losing streak to Midwestern State and earned its first win over the Mustangs since 2014. FLC still trails MSU 10-7-3 in the all-time series and 5-2-2 down in Wichita Falls.
-FLC and CSUP will meet for the fourth time this season and the second time in the postseason. The season series is knotted up at 1-1-1, with the ThunderWolves most recently winning the RMAC Tournament Championship 2-1 over in Pueblo, Colo.
-David Citron's seventh goal of the season gives the Toulouse, France, native 24 total points which is the third-most in the RMAC and fourth-most in the South-Central Region.
-Anton Hjalmarsson scored his ninth goal of the season in just 580 minutes and 11 games this season.
-Tomas Duenes earned his eighth assist of the season on Hjalmarsson's goal, giving the senior 18 total points with five goals to his name as well. Duenes now has 23 career assists to rank sixth all-time in program history behind Yannis Becker (2012-15) with 24.
-Lucas Martin extends his lead over the south-central region with his tenth shutout of the season which is good for the fifth-most in DII. Martin now moves into a tie with Ryan Schaul (2012-15) for the seventh-most in program history.
 
Round Four with the ThunderWolves
Fort Lewis will travel to Pueblo, Colo., for the third time this year to challenge CSU Pueblo for a fourth time in the Super Region 4 final for a chance at a trip to Matthews, North Carolina, for the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer National Tournament Final Four from Dec. 12-14. The match time will be announced at a later date.
 
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Scoring Summary
Scoring Team Scoring Play
05:37
FLC David Citron (6)
FLC David Citron PENALTY KICK GOAL.
49:36
FLC Anton Hjalmarsson (9)
Assisted By: Tomas Duenes Gonzalez
GOAL by FLC Hjalmarsson, Anton Assist by Duenes Gonzalez, Tomas.

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