SWARTHMORE, Pa -- Swarthmore College Men's Soccer had a chance to clinch the No. 5 seed in the Centennial Conference Tournament but lost 2-1 in double overtime to Haverford College on Saturday.
The Garnet (9-7-1, 4-4-1) honored seniors
Cameron Ricciardi,
Yuheng Wang,
Nick Ambiel,
Rodrigo Hernandez and
Will Gilchrist before the match.
Swarthmore's .559 winning percentage was its best since winning .579 percent of its games in 2014. The Garnet nearly doubled their 15-goal total from 2017 by scoring 28 this season. Swarthmore had 14 different goal scorers in 2018, and junior
Zach Viscusi led them all with six. The graduating class accounted for 25 percent of the team's goals.
On Saturday, Garnet junior forward
Ethan Witkowski scored the game's first goal on a penalty kick just 1:28 into the start of the second half.
Swarthmore held that 1-0 lead for 40-plus minutes and was within 3:13 of earning its first conference playoff berth since 2015. However, the Garnet got called for a handball in the box, and the Fords made the ensuing penalty kick to tie it up.
No one scored in the first 10-minute overtime, and Haverford scored the golden goal with 2:16 remaining in the second and final overtime.
Haverford took 13 shots in the game, and Swarthmore took 10. Both teams had four corner kicks.