Mahomet-Seymour Soccer sets school win record, heads to Regional Championship game
By Fred Kroner
Mahomet-Seymour’s second one-goal win over Centennial this season was a 2-1 triumph (in overtime) on Tuesday (Oct. 18) and pushed the Bulldogs’ season-win total to a school record 18.
The victory occurred in the semifinal match of a Class 2A regional at Urbana over the fifth-seeded Chargers, 2-1. Fourth-seeded M-S (18-5-2) will match up with the top-seeded host Tigers in a 5 p.m. Friday (Oct. 21) regional championship match on the Urbana field.
M-S scored first when Isaac Warren converted a first-half penalty kick. The goal was the 20th of the season for Warren and came in the game’s 17th minute.
Centennial (8-7-4) could only convert on one of two first-half penalty kicks, with Bulldog goalkeeper Zach Beyer stopping the second one to preserve a 1-1 halftime deadlock.
Neither team scored in the second half.
In overtime, Nick Tjahjadi took a free kick and played it to Ian Dobrucki on the back post and he booted it past the Charger goalie 4 minutes into the extra session.
“The midfielders (Tjahjadi, Carson Reed, Mitchell McAnally and Mikiah Jones) played another great game,” M-S coach Jeremy Davis said. “The boys were resilient in moving into new positions to fill in for some Bulldogs that were out or knocked out on the night.”
Beyer finished with eight saves.
M-S has won five straight matches. The team’s last four losses were all by one-goal margins, including one in late September to Urbana, 1-0.
Urbana has a 15-3-2 season record.
According to Maxpreps, both Urbana and M-S are ranked among the state’s top 20 teams in Class 2A. Urbana checks in at No. 14. M-S is rated 18th.
