Mastodons Fall to Oral Roberts 5-1

Friday, September 28

Fort Wayne, Ind.

7 p.m.

Purdue Fort Wayne

0-11-0, 0-2-0Summit

Oral Roberts

2-7-0, 1-1-0Summit

Oral Roberts

IPFW

Photo by: Lucas Carter

9/28/2012 10:49:00 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - For the second straight match, the IPFW Mastodons fell 5-1, this time dropping the squad to 0-2 in the Summit League this season with a loss at home to the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles.

Oral Roberts (2-7, 1-1 Summit League) scored a pair of goals within the first 17 minutes of the game, the first coming on a free kick 11:45 into the game, before the Golden Eagles took advantage of an IPFW mistake when Cody Lofgren picked up a failed clear attempt and put it into the back of the net giving the visitors a 2-0 advantage.

Less than two minutes later the Mastodons (0-11, 0-2 Summit League) countered with a goal of their own when Jose Rodriguez broke into the scoring column for the first time in his career when Kyle Ackerman found him with a pass down the right side of the field, with Rodriguez beating ORU keeper Ryan Grashik near post, cutting the deficit in half at 2-1.

Despite the flurry of three goals in the first 18 minutes of action, the final 27 minutes of the first half went scoreless, as the Golden Eagles took a 2-1 lead into the locker room at halftime.

John David James opened the second half scoring when Tom Adams found him with a pass in the middle, in which James beat IPFW goalkeeper Brandon Cloutier to the right post, giving ORU a 3-1 lead. Six and a half minutes later Adams was the beneficiary of a James assist when James took the ball away from the IPFW defender, passing ahead to a charging Adams who put the ball away in a breakaway goal.

In the 67th minute Lofgren scored his second goal of the match on a free kick, giving the game its 5-1 final score.

Rodriguez had a team-high four shots for the Mastodons, as Corey Tom had three, and Nate Shipman two, with Rodriguez and Shipman putting two shots on goal. Cloutier had four saves for IPFW, playing the first 78 minutes, before being lifted in favor of Will Brown, who put up a clean sheet over the final 12 minutes of action.

The Mastodons return to action on Saturday, October 6, when the squad travels to Macomb, Ill. to take on the Western Illinois Leathernecks in a 1 p.m. Summit League kickoff.

~ Feel the Rumble ~