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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Despite playing a man down for the final 52 minutes of play, the Slippery Rock University men's soccer team was able to pick up a tightly-contested 2-1 victory against Shippensburg University Saturday afternoon at James Egli Field in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference action.
 
Slippery Rock improved to 4-3-0 overall with the win and 2-1-0 in PSAC competition. The loss drops Shippensburg's record to 3-3-1 overall and 1-1-0 in league play.
 
Leading The Rock on the day was Stephen Donnelly, who scored the game's first goal and also assisted on Peter Boylan's game-winning goal. Donnelly now has three goals and five assists on the year for a team-high 11 points. He has registered points in five of Slippery Rock's seven games in 2014.
 
Boylan's goal was his third of the season, setting a new career high for the junior.
 
Steven Rerick earned the win at goal for SRU after making four goals and allowing just one goal in 90 minutes.
 
In what was a physical game throughout the day, SRU opened up as the aggressors quickly when Donnelly put a free kick from just outside the left side of the Red Raiders' box past Shippensburg goalie Evan Raimist in the ninth minute.
 
The Rock maintained the one-goal advantage over the next 30 minutes until Shippensburg's Gregg Whitcomb managed to slip a shot past Rerick in traffic to tie the contest at 1-1 with just under seven minutes to play in the period. After trading possession for the remainder of the half, the game went into halftime tied.
 
Slippery Rock once again started quick in the second half when Boylan took a pass from Donnelly in the Shippensburg zone six minutes into the half and proceeded to put what would turn out to be the game-winning goal in the back of the Red Raiders' net.
 
Shippensburg managed to fire off five more shots over the final 39 minutes of regulation, but could not convert the equalizer en route to the SRU victory.
 
Nine cards were handed out Saturday including two yellow cards given to Nick Kutcher which resulted in SRU playing a man down from the 38:39 mark in the first half until 85:31 in the second half when Whitcomb was also ejected for Shippensburg.
 
The trio of Donnelly, Boylan and Anthony Jack combined for six shots on goal for Slippery Rock.

For the game, Slippery Rock held advantages over the Red Raiders in total shots (13-10), shots on goal (6-5) and corner kicks (7-4).
 
Robert Furfaro had four shots, three of which were on goal, to help pace the Shippensburg attack. Raimist stopped four shots in the defeat.
 
Slippery Rock continues its home stand when it steps out of PSAC play to host Salem International Tuesday at 4 p.m.