BOX SCORE

Center Valley, PA (September 5, 2010) – Senior Rusty Helwig (Wescosville, PA/Emmaus) and junior Derek Long (Wernersville, PA/Conrad Weiser) each scored on diving headers late in the second half to help the DeSales University men's soccer team stay undefeated with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Ursinus College on another perfect afternoon.

The highlights will show two beautiful goals on headers but the play of the game from senior Joe Yoha (DuBois, PA/DuBois) who brilliantly anticipated and then stepped in front of an Ursinus pass in the 83rd minute. He took one touch and fed senior Sky Rimmele (Lenhartsville, PA/Moravian Academy) in the left corner who also took one touch and fired a centering pass into the box where Long put his Superman cape on and fired a diving header past the Bears' keeper and into the back of the net for the game-winner at the 83:16 mark.

DeSales (3-0 overall) trailed nearly the entire game after Ursinus (0-2 overall) struck first just 7:10 into the game when Andrew Machalick scored off a corner feed from Jean Carlo Cordova. Sophomore Adam Franczak (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth) had some brilliant saves in the entire game but particularly in the first half to keep the game close including tipping a point blank header off the crossbar early in the contest. Franczak finished with three saves on the afternoon.

Down 1-0 to start the second half DeSales had its chances but either a diving save from the UC keeper or a shot just wide found the Bulldogs still down one entering the 65th minute when the Bulldogs finally got one past the line. Junior Jonathan Balfour (London, England/Conestoga {PA}) found Rimmele wide open and unmarked on a short corner and he dribbled once to set up a centering pass into the box where Helwig was waiting and left open for a header into the corner of the net to tie the game. It was Helwig's third tally of the season.

The two teams played just over 18 minutes of soccer with the score tied at one before Yoha's steal set-up the Long game-winner with just under seven minutes to play. DSU put pressure on Ursinus all afternoon out-shooting the visitor's 21-11 and holding a 13-5 edge in corner kicks. Mike Alfieri was stellar in goal for Ursinus making eight stops.

DSU will return to action on Tuesday, September 7th when they travel to Lebanon Valley College for a non-conference game beginning at 4:00 pm.