Nov. 1, 2009

Box Score

GLVC Men's Soccer Quarterfinals: #3 Lewis 1, #6 Quincy 0 in PDF Format

Romeoville, Ill. - The Lewis University men's soccer team used a strong defensive effort, aided by a late first-half goal by senior forward Nestor Hernandez (Berwyn, Ill./Morton West), to claim the 1-0 victory over Quincy in a Great Lakes Valley Conference quarterfinal match-up at the Lewis Soccer Field on Sunday afternoon.

Lewis, who has now won eight-straight games, improves to 13-3-1 overall and will square off with No. 2 seed Northern Kentucky in the GLVC semifinals, hosted by Drury, on Friday, November 6th at 5 p.m. Quincy ends the season with a mark of 9-8-2.

Hernandez posted his career-high 12th goal of the season with 85 seconds left in the opening half, as he cleaned up a pass from sophomore defender Nathan Groesch (Decatur, Ill./MacArthur/Bradley) at the 43:35 mark.

Lewis goalkeeper Sebastian Kieruzal (Hoffman Estates, Ill./Hoffman Estates) stopped two shots to claim his 10th shutout of the season. Kieruzal has not allowed a goal in his last 487:12 minutes played.

A Catholic university sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, Lewis offers nearly 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, accelerated degree completion options for working adults, various aviation programs and 22 graduate programs in nine fields. The 10th largest private, not-for-profit university in Illinois is being honored for the sixth consecutive year by The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report. For more information please visit www.lewisu.edu.

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