ERIE, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University men's soccer team finished the 2021 season in a close 2-1 loss at No. 19 Gannon University Saturday.
 
With the loss The Rock ends their season with a 6-10-2 overall mark and 3-7-0 record in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Gannon improves to 14-2-2 overall and 7-1-2 in the division to continue onto the postseason.
 
Slippery Rock was led on offense by Joey Moeller who posted SRU's only goal off of an assist from Joe Skillicorn. Along with the goal scorer were Skillicorn (1), Alejandro Fernandez (2), Mo Kanani (1) and Alex Plimmer (1) to round out SRU's shot takers.
 
Through 90 minutes, goalkeeper Hossam Aly made six saves while allowing two goals.
 
Slippery Rock struck quickly scoring the game opening goal at 2:27 on a corner kick that was sent into the box by Skillicorn and headed home by Moeller for his third goal of the season.
 
The Golden Knights followed with a goal of their own soon after in the 21st minute when Bek Nulanbek sent a corner kick attempt to Sergio Del Castillo to net the game tying point.
 
Gannon would go on to score what would be the final goal of the match with less than 10 minutes to play in the first period when Charlie Petersen laid a ball out of the reach of Aly to close out the first half.
 
Coming out of the break, The Rock and Golden Knights entered a tightly contested defensive battle with Slippery Rock successfully fending off nine shots while testing Gannon goalkeeper David Syntelien with three shots of their own.
 
After a back-and-forth second period in which The Rock held tough against nationally ranked Gannon, neither team would score again sealing the 2-1 Golden Knight victory.
 
For the game, Gannon held advantages in total shots (17-7), shots on goal (9-4) and corner kicks (6-2).
 
Saturday's game marked the final one in the collegiate careers of Nick Iagnemma, Mo Kanani, Alex Okuma, Dan Schearer, Martell Stewart and Benjiman Trevino.




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