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October 23, 2004

OLYMPIA,WA -- If Saturday's Cascade Conference-season-ending men's soccer match between visting Albertson College of Idaho and The Evergreen State College didn't have everything, it had plenty to keep fans occupied until the Geoducks pulled out a 3-2 victory with a goal in the 88th minute:

" A nail-biting 0-0 first half.

" A barrage of near-misses by the Geoducks (11-5-1, 9-3 in the Cascade Conference), who took 33 shots, 13 of them on goal.

" A remarkable 10-save performance by Coyote goalkeeper Ryan Huber.

" A see-saw scoring pattern in which the teams alternated goals right down the end.

Evergreen broke 49-plus minutes of scoreless soccer when Jason Gjerstsen slid a nice ground ball pass to Kyle Andrews, who banged in his second goal of the season to put the Geoducks up. But the lead was short-lived: 10 minutes later, Evergreen bungled its defense of a corner kick launched into the box by Albertson's Ryan Abo and knocked in an own goal.

When the Geoducks bounced back to retake the lead on a nice unassisted goal by Nate Ford, his 12th of the season, with about 24 minutes to play, Albertson (10-4-1, 7-4-1 Cascade) retaliated only three minutes later. Coyote scoring leader Mitch White got his ninth goal of the year with a powerful blast from the top of the box.

There it stood until 2:09 to play when Greg Preciado dropped an inside-out pass to Joe Gjersten, the Cascade's leading scoring, who secured the victory for Evergreen with a short shot from left-to-right past Huber.

Evergreen's victory locked up a berth in the NAIA Region I playoffs, but didn't allow them to overtake first-place Concordia University (9-2-1 in league), which escaped with an overtime scoreless tie with Warner Pacific College.

The Geoducks host the number-one ranked team in Region I, Simon Fraser University, in a non-conference game on Tuesday at home, then travel to Western Washington University on October 30 for another non-conference match. The Region I tournament will be played in Portland Nov. 5-6.

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