bautista corti goal seton hill psac quarterfinal
3
Seton Hill SHU (8-9-2, 6-2-2)
4
Winner Gannon GAN (13-4-2, 6-2-2)
Seton Hill SHU
(8-9-2, 6-2-2)
3
Final
4
Gannon GAN
(13-4-2, 6-2-2)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Seton Hill SHU 3 0 3
Gannon GAN 3 1 4

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Bob Shreve, Assistant Director of Athletics Media Relations

Corti's Goal Completes Rally as Gannon Comes Back from Early Two-Goal Deficit to Defeat Seton Hill in PSAC Quarterfinals

ERIE, Pa. – Bautista Corti (Manuel Alberti, Argentina/Adultos 2000) scored the game-winning goal in the 59th minute as the Gannon men's soccer team rallied for a foggy 4-3 win over Seton Hill on Tuesday afternoon in a PSAC Quarterfinal game at McConnell Family Stadium. With the victory the Golden Knights move on this weekend's PSAC Final Four in Bloomsburg, Pa.

Gannon, now 13-4-2 and the number two in the Western Division, will meet host Bloomsburg, the number one seed out of the Eastern Division, on Friday, November 4 in the first of two semifinal matches. That contest will get underway at 2:30 p.m. Western Division top seed Mercyhurst will meet the winner of today's East Stroudsburg-West Chester match at 5:30 p.m. The 2022 PSAC Championship game is set for 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 6 at Bloomsburg. The loss ended Seton Hill's season at 8-9-2. The two teams had tied for second in the Western Division with 6-2-2 records.

A wild first half saw Gannon and Seton Hill battle to a 3-3 tie, which is no surprise since the two teams battled to ties in the two regular season meetings.

The Golden Knights never led in the contest until Corti's goal gave Gannon a 4-3 advantage at the 58:45 mark. The sophomore defender was able to score his second goal of the year following a scramble in front of the Seton Hill goal off a corner kick. Both teams battled for the ball before Corti was able to get enough of it to get it into the back of the net for the winning goal.  

It did not appear that Gannon would have to worry about a third straight trip to the semifinals after Seton Hill, the number three seed in the PSAC West, jumped out to a quick lead. The two regular season meetings had featured an early goal in the opening minutes.

That proved to be the case on an afternoon that began with an eerie feeling one day after Halloween. A thick fog rolled in late in the morning and encased McConnell Family Stadium. Seton Hill made matters worse as the Griffins jumped to a quick 2-0 lead.

They stunned the Golden Knights with a goal just 48 seconds into the match, as Fletcher Amos scored his team-leading 12th goal of the season on a breakaway. He took a pass from Elias Mobrin and fired it from 20 yards out over the right shoulder of goalkeeper Samuel Alarcon (Madrid, Spain/Colegio el Valle II), who was rushing out of the goal.

Mobrin boosted Seton Hill's lead to 2-0 in just the third minute off a corner kick. He headed the ball into the right corner of the net off Archie Lock's corner kick.
Just 2:27 into the match, the Golden Knights found themselves trailing 2-0 while also playing without head coach Billy Colton on the bench. The fourth-year coach was not on the bench due to illness.

Gannon returned the favor and cut the deficit to 2-1 just a minute later on its own corner kick. It was the first time the Golden Knights had the ball in scoring territory in Seton Hill's end, as Shota Toyama's (Kanagawa, Japan/Tama) corner kick as headed into the right corner by Pau Ferrer (Valencia, Spain/ISES Isabel de Villena). It was the redshirt freshman's fourth goal of the season.

The Golden Knights knotted the score at 2-2 just over ten minutes into the match, at 10:26, on Tinashe Katsande's (Norwich, England/Dereham Sixth Form College) fifth goal of the season. The senior forward gathered in a through pass from James Pool (Hastings, England/Claverham) and fired a shot past goalkeeper Nathaniel Huff into the left corner from 10 yards out.

Play finally settled in until the 31:21 mark, when the Griffins regained the lead on Moritz Stuehn's second goal of the year. Anton dupont Linden fired a crossing passing from the right side to Cai Pritchard, and his touch pass found Stuehn in front of the net. Stuehn just beat a Gannon defender to the ball and blasted a shot past Samuel Alarcon (Madrid, Spain/Colegio el Valle II).

The scoring wasn't done in the first half as Gannon came back to tie the match at 3-3 in the 42nd minute on another corner kick. Lennox Crews (Offenbach, Germany/Leibnizschule) attempted the corner kick from right side, and he found Petter Dyrkorn (Sandvika, Norway/Doenski Videregaaende Skole) in front. Dyrkorn's header sailed past Huff for his third goal of the season.

Corti's goal was the lone score of the second half as Gannon was able to keep play more in its offensive end as weather conditions also brightened. The Golden Knights would finish with a 19-14 advantage in shots, including 11-6 in shots on goal. Both teams finished with five corner kicks. Alarcon, a freshman who took over as the starter in goal midway through the year, made three saves while Huff had seven for Seton Hill.

Oddly enough the victory is the 50th of Colton's career. Now the Golden Knights continue their pursuit for a first-ever PSAC championship. They have reached the finals the last two years.   
 
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