The SMU men’s soccer team kept its C-USA record undefeated with a 4-1 win over Marshall on Friday evening and a dramatic 2-1 win over the Kentucky Wildcats Sunday afternoon.
Senior Duke Hashimoto headed home the game-winning goal with three seconds remaining in Lexington on Sunday, boosting the Mustangs’ record to 6-4-1 (4-0). Ã
Junior midfielder Dario Santus collected a Kentucky free kick and broke up the right flank before serving a ball into the box, where Hashimoto beat Wildcat goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum on the far side.
The last-second heroics came exactly a week after Hashimoto scored the game-winning goal with 16.7 seconds left against Memphis.
Kentucky (4-4-4, 1-2-1 C-USA) suffered its first home loss in eight games and got on the board first when Thomas Senecal headed home a Michael D’Agostino corner kick.
But, in the 54th minute, the Wildcats went a man down when Riley O’Neal received a direct red and was sent off.
Defender Jay Needham tied the game at one in the 62nd minute when he slipped a free kick just inside the left post from 25 yards.
Friday’s game against the Marshall Thundering Herd (2-7-1, 0-2-1 C-USA) was more lopsided, as the Mustangs went up in the 19th minute on a Mynor Gonzalez penalty kick and never looked back.
However, SMU had to weather 11 first-half shots from Marshall. The team put the game away in the middle of the second half when the two teams scored four goals in seven minutes, three of those going to the Mustangs.
Paolo de Silva, Bruno Guarda and Kellan Zindel all scored goals for SMU, while Kirk Gibson had the only goal for the herd. Zindel also had an assist on de Silva’s goal, making him the only player in the game to register more than one point.
