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Oregon State Pushes Game Into Double Overtime; Falls to UCLA, 1-0
October 30, 2011 | Men's Soccer
Oct. 30, 2011
Box Score | UCLA 1 - OSU 0 (2OT) Box Score 
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Senior keeper Steve Spangler made five saves, all in the second half and overtime, to keep the Oregon State men's soccer team even with No. 10 UCLA, but the Bruins finally broke through in the 103rd minute and the Beavers lost their penultimate game of the season, 1-0, in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.
The result drops Oregon State's record to 5-10-2 this season and 3-5-1 in conference action.
"I'm extremely disappointed we didn't get anything out of this," Oregon State head coach Steve Simmons said. "We were defending a lot, but a lot of teams that come to UCLA have to do that - they're a good team. I thought we did a good job of that and promoted some chances to get forward, but you can't have moments be the difference. I feel gutted for the guys because they deserved more. They were less than eight minutes away from getting something out of it."
The Beavers opened the game dictating much of the action in the attacking end, especially in the first 20 minutes, and UCLA wasn't able to get a single shot on goal in the first half. Coming of intermission, the back-and-forth play picked up and Oregon State generated a number of quality chances while Spangler kept UCLA off the board in the back.
In the 61st minute freshman Will Seymore played a nice ball into the box from 25 yards out and Colin Mitchell came racing into the far post to get a head on it, but sailed his shot wide left. The same play developed 10 minutes later, this time with Roberto Farfan setting up the leaping Mitchell. The junior got his head on the ball and a shot on net, but UCLA's Brian Rowe made the save to keep the game scoreless.
In the 81st minute Daniel Van Vleet crossed a chance from the far corner to the waiting boot of Jake Parker, but Rowe jumped out to intercept the pass and two minutes later Chase Raskowsky set up a streaking Van Vleet down the near side, but the Beavers were unable to capitalize on either opportunity.
UCLA had some close calls of its own, but Spangler made sure the match would head into extra time with some acrobatic saves. In the 68th minute the Bruins' Victor Chavez headed a long throw in and would have given his team the lead, but just as the ball looked to creep under the crossbar, Spangler punched it up and over the net for the save.
At 83:34, the Pac-12's leading goal scorer, Chandler Hoffman, had back-to-back shots on goal, but was denied both times by OSU's keeper. Spangler knocked the first back out in front of the goal and dove to his left on the second to corral the ball. Spangler again made a diving save on a shot by Kelyn Rowe in the 86th minute to push the contest into overtime.
"I thought Steve was excellent today," Simmons said. "He made the saves to keep us in it and you have to do that on the road."
In the 103rd minute, Eder Arreola set up for a corner kick on the far side, to the left of Oregon State's goal. His service in was struck by Victor Chavez, whose shot hit the right post, but Fernando Monge was right there to collect the rebound and slip the ball just inside the same post to nab the victory for UCLA.
"If a team beats you from a brilliant goal, they beat you from a brilliant goal," Simmons said of the game's last play. "Today that was an opportunistic goal. That's something on us and we're not going to make excuses or apologies, we just have to be better."
Emery Welshman had three shots in the game, and now has 60 this season, the most for a Beaver since Danny Mwanga had 64 in 2009 and the sixth most in program history.
Oregon State is off next weekend and wraps up its season against Washington in Seattle on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.
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