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Nov. 10, 2000
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The second-seeded Virginia Cavaliers defeated thethird-seeded Duke Blue Devils 3-0 Friday night at Wake Forest’s SpryStadium in the semifinals of the ACC Men’s Soccer Championship. TheCavaliers advance to the tournament final where they will face the winnerof the Wake Forest – North Carolina semifinal game. With the victory,Virginia now stands at 13-5-1 on the year while Duke falls to 15-4-1.
Virginia scored first as Jonathan Cole scored on a head ball off of acorner kick by Alecko Eskandarian at the 31:45 mark. The second halfsaw the Cavaliers increase their lead when Ryan Gibbs scored on anunassisted goal at the 78:56 mark and slipped another shot past DukeGoalkeeper Jeff Haywood at the 85:30 mark to complete the Cavilerscoring for the evening. Gibbs commented, “I just picked my spots to goat them and I was just fortunate to get two goals.” Gibbs would have hada hat trick if it were not for a shot ricocheting off of the right goalpost in the 60th minute.
Virginia head coach George Gelnovach praised his team’s efforts, “We’vebeen waiting for that game for about two or three weeks now. I thoughtwe played some pretty inspirational soccer tonight.” Gelnovach felt theshutout of the Blue Devils was a team effort. “Our defense was verygood. It wasn’t just our back four. Everyone got behind the ball. Weall played pretty motivated. I told the team everyone’s got to getbehind the ball, everyone’s got to help.”
Duke Coach John Rennie congratulated the Cavaliers on their victory andtheir efforts, “We felt whoever scored the first goal of the second halfwould win the game. If we would’ve gotten a goal it would’ve been adifferent game, but they got it and they deserved to win.” Rennie feltthat missed opportunities cost the Blue Devils the game. “We had ourchances, you know, Robbie Russell had a header and it hit the crossbar,so instead of 1-1 its 1-0. That’s what happens. Those are the breaksthat decide the game.”
| 1 | 2 | F | ||
| Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Scoring: VA Cole 31:44, VA Gibbs 78:56, VA Gibbs 85:30
Shots: VA 13, DU 9
Saves: Comfort (VA) 2, Haywood (DU) – 3
Corner Kicks: Virginia 5, Duke 4
Fouls: Virginia 16, Duke 11