Men's Soccer | 9/5/2010 7:20:28 PM

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ROCHESTER, NY – Dan Holowaty (Strongsville, OH/St. Ignatius) scored with 4:16 left in the first overtime, giving the RIT men's soccer team (2-0-1) a dramatic, 2-1 win over Nazareth (0-1-1) in the championship game of the 2010 Doug May Memorial Tournament on Sunday at RIT Field. Jake Yates (Waynesburg, PA/Waynesburg) was named the Tournament MVP.

John Zito (Rochester, NY/East Rochester) slid a pass from the right side over to Justin Dambra (Hopewell Junction, NY/John Jay), who chipped it right to Holowaty inside the box. Holowaty's shot hit the crossbar and bounced in for his second goal of the season.

Just before Holowaty's goal, Bret Dietz (Harrisburg, PA/Bishop McDevitt) nearly had the game won for RIT, taking a cross from Jimmy Forbes (Manlius, NY/Fayetteville-Manlius) and ripping a bullet of a shot that seemed to be destined for the top corner, but Nazareth goalkeeper Kyle Connolly deflected the shot over the net.

Nazareth got on the board first in the 28th minute, as Rikesh Kotak converted a crossing pass from Ryan Foley inside the box past a diving Conway.

Conway came up with a big save just 10 minutes in, diving to stop Kotak from in close.

RIT's best chance of the first half came moments later, as Todd Gaulocher (Old Greenwich, CT/Greenwich) had a golden opportunity with header in the box that just sailed over the goal.

The Tigers pushed hard for the equalizer over the final 20 minutes of regulation, getting several great chances. Dom Colaprete (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport) redirected a long ball from Yates just wide from inside the box. Zito also had two good chances from in tight stopped by Connolly.

With just 5:01 left in regulation, Yates headed in a corner kick cross by Dambra to tie the game at 1 and send the crowd into a frenzy.

RIT held a 19-7 edge in shots after regulation. The Tigers had six straight corner kicks to end regulation. Overall, RIT out-shot Nazareth, 21-8. Connolly made eight saves for the Golden Flyers, while Conway stopped a pair of shots for RIT.

The Tigers return to action on Saturday, as they play St. Vincent's at the Skidmore Alumni Invitational at 2 p.m.


2010 Doug May All-Tournament Team
Sean Conway (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park), GK, RIT
Justin Parlapiano, GK, Ithaca
Mike Breman, D, Brockport
Sean Dorman, D, Nazareth
Sean Coots (Binghamton, NY/Johnson City), D, RIT
James Wheeler, D, Nazareth
Christian Tychostop, M, Brockport
Rikesh Kotak, M, Nazareth
Bret Dietz (Harrisburg, PA/Bishop McDevitt), M, RIT
Dom Colaprete (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport), M/F, RIT
Dan Holowaty (Strongsville, OH/St. Ignatius), F, RIT

MVP: Jake Yates (Waynesburg, PA/Waynesburg), D, RIT