WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Longwood University men’s soccer was unable to overcome two early goals by George Washington, falling 2-1 Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C.  The loss puts the Lancers at 3-4-2 on the year, while GW improves to 5-3-0 overall.  Longwood will return to action on Saturday, October 6, as they host Cal-State Bakersfield in a 5 p.m. contest.
 

The Colonials wasted little time to jump onto the scoreboard, as Erick Perez-Segnini knocked in a long throw at the far post to give the home squad a 1-0 lead just 4:05 into the game.  GW struck just fifty-two seconds later, on a cross from Abimbola Pedro that was knocked in by Andy Stadler for his sixth goal of the year and the 2-0 lead.  The Lancers were pinned back in their end for the first twelve minutes of the game as GW outshot Longwood by a 7-0 count.  Longwood’s first shot of the game came off the foot of senior Max Griessbach/Bethesda, Md. (Walt Whitman) fifteen minutes into the first half.  The Lancers recorded the next two shots as they tried to cut the deficit to one goal with under ten minutes remaining, but shots from junior Marcus Dixon/Gloucester (Gloucester) and sophomore Brian Germain/Langley (McLean) went wide of the net.  Sophomore Chernor Diallo/Alexandria (Mount Vernon) fired a shot with 2:47 to go before the break but the Colonials’ Greg Yahr made the save sending the teams into halftime with the score still 2-0 in the home teams favor.
 

Senior Sean Harney/Chesterfield (Lloyd C. Bird) cut the Colonials’ lead to one goal after he received a pass from sophomore Martin Vickerton/Derbyshire, England (Kirk Hallam Technical College) and put a 25-yard shot in the back of the net for the 2-1 score with twenty minutes remaining in the game.  Senior Trey Thornton/Richmond (Mills E. Godwin) almost tied the game at two with 8:40 left in the game, when he put a shot off a corner kick on net that was knocked out by a GW defender, leaving the Lancers still in search of the equalizer.  That’s as close as the Lancers got as GW kept everything in front of them for the 2-1 win.
 

Senior Brandt Youmans/Gaithersburg, Md. (Damascus) finished the game with seven saves in the loss while George Washington’s Yahr tallied two saves in 90:00 of action.  Longwood was outshot 18-13 but doubled GW’s corner kicks tallying ten while the Colonials recorded five.