Men's Soccer

Grant PK Strike Lifts Monks Past Bengals in Spring Season Opener, 3-2

Posted: Apr 11, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – Senior Colin Grant (Harvard, Mass.) scored the game-winning goal on a PK attempt with 6:19 remaining in regulation to lift Saint Joseph's College past UMaine-Fort Kent, 3-2, in a spring men's soccer game at the SJC Athletics Complex on Sunday afternoon.

Senior Quinn Hewitt (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) opened the scoring with a strike off a perfect feed from junior Austin Ward (North Andover, Mass.) at the 37:32 mark but UMFK knotted the game at 1-1 just 42 seconds later.

Ward put the Monks on top with a shot taken from inside the box to the top left corner off a Grant feed with 13:30 left in the first half.

UMFK tied the game once again just 4:29 into the second stanza and, following nearly 40 minutes of midfield jockeying, Grant struck for the clincher on a penalty kick after the Bengals were flagged for a foul inside the box.

SJC senior keeper David Walbridge (Hampden, Mass.) made two saves in the first half while sophomore Michael Sheridan (Folsom, Pa.) posted one stop in the second frame.

The Monks return to action on Saturday with a home spring season game versus UMaine-Farmington. Kickoff is slated for 1:00 PM.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.