Seton Hill made the trip across the state for the PSAC Quarterfinal at West Chester on Sunday afternoon.
The teams played to a 2-2 tie after 110 minutes of action but the Griffins won 4-1 in the penalty kick shootout to advance to the PSAC Semifinals. The Griffins are now 7-5-7 overall. West Chester drops to 7-4-7.
Neither team was able to find the back of the net in the first half. The Griffins outshot the Golden Rams 5-3 in the first half.
A wild second half started with a goal from
James Aubrey 15 minutes into the second half.
Tomas Gomes assisted on the goal. Just over three minutes later, West Chester tied the score at one. With a little less than 20 minutes to play in the contest,
Felix Knorn scored to put the Griffins back in front. West Chester tied the contest at two with 11:03 left in regulation. A little less than a minute later, the Golden Rams received a red card which dropped them to 10 players.
The Griffins dominated both of the overtime periods, outshooting the Rams 5-0 in each period, but could not score the game winning goal sending the contest to penalty kicks.
The Griffins converted all four of their penalty kicks to advance. Knorn,
Toby Dance,
Paul Eder and Gomes each scored for the Griffins in the penalty shootout.
Jannik Reiss made two saves in the shootout as well.
Aubrey and
Rafael Santos each had three shots on goal.
Evan DeMarco added two shots on goal. Reiss made 4 saves in the 110 minutes of action.
The Griffins will travel to Gannon for the PSAC Semifinals on Wednesday afternoon at 1 PM.
