BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Sunday afternoon, the Tigers looked to upset the MSC regular season champs and first seeded Life Running Eagles in the MSC semifinal match.
However, through a hard-fought match, Life's 64
th minute goal from the conference player of the year, Thierry Jules, was enough for the Running Eagles to end CU's conference title run 1-0.
Through the first half, Campbellsville was able to outshoot Life 6-5, as shots on goal from
Connor Pugh and
Eleder Goikoetxea forced the Life keeper, Pekruhl to make two saves as the teams entered the half scoreless.
Out of the halftime break Life took to the immediate attack, as
Owen Stott was forced to make his first save of the match on their first shot of the second period.
The Running Eagles kept pushing through the Tiger defense as they put three more shots on goal, including the goal from Jules.
While Life was pressing, the Tiger attack was unable to push through as CU only recorded one shot in the period of the foot of
Marc Lawrence that was saved.
Life advances to the MSC Championship on Nov. 16
th.
Campbellsville will now await the finish of conference tournament play to see if they are selected as an at-large bid to the NAIA National Tournament.