Wednesday, September 28

Chicago, Ill.

12:00 PM

Northwestern

3-4-2

DePaul

3-5-1

Team	1	2	Final F
Northwestern	0	0	0
DePaul	2	2	4

Lepe Seetane had three shots, two on goal, against DePaul

Wildcats Fall 4-0 to Blue Demons in Matinee Match

9/28/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

Sept. 28, 2011

Box Score

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Site: Chicago, Ill. (Wish Field)
Score: Northwestern 0, DePaul 4
Records: Northwestern (3-4-2, 0-0-1 Big Ten), DePaul (3-5-1, 1-0-0 BIG EAST)
Next NU Event: Saturday, October 1 – vs. Missouri State, Lakeside Field (Evanston, Ill.), 7 p.m.

CHICAGO – Northwestern played its first true road match of the 2011 season and fell 4-0 to DePaul at Wish Field Wednesday afternoon. The Wildcats had the 22-10 advantage on shots and 12-0 advantage on corner kicks, but DePaul found the back of the net four times, twice in each half, for the victory.

“This was our first true road game of the year and we got a good lesson in how not to play when you're on the road,” Northwestern head coach Tim Lenahan said. “It wasn't about X's and O's and things like that, DePaul came out with a lot of intensity, forced the issue and scored a goal and then we made mistakes after that.”

DePaul opened up the scoring in the 18th minute as Antonio Aguilar put a shot in past Tyler Miller (Woodbury, N.J./Bishop Eustace) from the lower right about 11 feet out off a cross by Matt Leinauer. DePaul would go up 2-0 before halftime as David Selvaggi scored on a shot in the middle of the net on a pass from Thiago Ganancio.

The Wildcats had nine shots in the first frame, including four on goal. Reed Losee (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) put two shots on goal in the first and finished with a game-high five shots in the match.

In the second half, Ganancio scored a goal of his own in the 59th minute on a shot from the middle of the box. Miller came out to defend and Ganancio slipped a shot right past him. Sophomore goalkeeper Tommy Tombridge entered the game in the 73rd minute and saved a shot by Selvaggi minutes later. DePaul added on one more goal though as David Leverentz fired a shot past Tombridge into the lower left after stealing the ball from Northwestern.

Tombridge finished with two saves while Miller had one save in the match. DePaul goalkeeper Eric Soby saved six shots.

“Our defense, which has been so great all year and our goalkeeping, I feel like today that group was a little sloppy in the back,” Lenahan said. “We have to find a way to score a goal. Their goalie made a couple good saves but we have to find a way to dent the back of the goal. At 2-0, I knew the game wasn't ending at 2-0, but I didn't think it would end 4-0 and then that third goal, we gave the ball away in the back and that kind of sealed the deal.”

Lenahan substituted a number of freshmen in the game, including Jagger Martinez (Safety Harbor, Fla./Countryside), Grant Wilson (Kansas City, Mo./Rockhurst) and Jeff Rogers (Birmingham, Mich./Detroit County Day). Senior Lucas Swertloff (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) also played in his first game this season.

“The positives are we got a lot of guys playing time, a lot of the younger guys played very well at the end of the game, pushing to get a goal on the scoreboard and I thought they did a really good job,” Lenahan said. “It was a valuable lesson. When you play on the road, it's not about X's and O's, shots on goal and pretty soccer. You have to come in and grind out a result and the better team doing that today certainly was DePaul.”

Northwestern returns to Lakeside Field at 7 p.m. Saturday to host Missouri State.

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