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Ohio Wesleyan 12, Kenyon 8
May 7, 2008
![[ Chris Eccles ]](../images/eccles2.jpg)
Senior midfielder Chris Eccles (Secane, Pa./Monsignor Bonner) scored twice to kick off a game-ending 4-0 run as Ohio Wesleyan defeated North Coast Athletic Conference rival Kenyon in a first-round game of the NCAA Division III playoffs on Wednesday in Gambier.
Ohio Wesleyan advances to the second round to face defending national champion Salisbury on Saturday in Salisbury, Md.
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The game was tied, 7-7, going into the fourth quarter, and goals by senior midfielder Trevor Jones (Flanders, N.J./West Morris Mendham) and Kenyon's Jordan Zimolka left matters deadlocked at 8-8 with 11:27 remaining in regulation time.
Eccles then put the Bishops ahead to stay with an unassisted goal with 9:51 remaning, and less than a minute later, Eccles found the back of the net again, ringing up another unassisted goal to make it a 10-8 game.
Senior attacker Harrison Iuliano (Mendham, N.J./Blair Academy) followed with a goal with 5:09 to play and sophomore attacker Rob Young (Langhorne, Pa./Council Rock South) finished off the Bishop scoring with an unassisted goal with 3:53 remaining.
The Lords got on the scoreboard first on John Crain's goal with 11:01 left in the first quarter, but it took Ohio Wesleyan less than a minute to respond as the Bishops evened the game on a man-up score by senior midfielder Steve Fowler (Wilton, Conn.) with 10:27 to go.
Junior midfielder Connor McGowan (Worthington/Thomas Worthington) and Kenyon's Nate Pritchard traded goals later in the first quarter, which ended in a 2-2 deadlock.
Ohio Wesleyan broke on top early in the second quarter, getting a man-up score from Iuliano and a goal from Eccles to take 4-2 lead, then stretched the lead to 5-2 when sophomore midfielder Chaz Narwicz (Yardley, PA/Holy Ghost Prep) scored with 5:43 left in the half.
The Bishops still led, 7-4, late in the third quarter when a man-up score by Brett Fuller started a Kenyon comeback, and goals by Zach Wallace and Fuller during the final 2 minutes of the quarter pulled the Lords even at 7-7.
Eccles led the Bishops with 4 goals, while Iuliano contributed 3 goals and 2 assists.
Freshman goalkeeper Jud Hall (Columbus/Upper Arlington) was credited with 13 saves in the Ohio Wesleyan goal.
Pritchard led Kenyon with 2 goals and 2 assists, while Fuller scored twice. David Page stopped 5 shots in the Kenyon cage.