Box Score Bronxville, N.Y. – (10/12/2013) – The Chestnut Hill College defense held on for as long as it could, but the Griffins eventually gave way to Concordia College (NY) in the 89^th-minute of today's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest, 1-0. The Griffins denied the Clippers through a 12-1 first-half shot deficit and through 44 minutes of a tightly-played second half before allowing the home side to gain the advantage with a late twice-touched corner kick conversion. Including the previous shutout wins over Wilmington University, Dominican College, and Caldwell College, the Clippers ended the Griffins stretch of shutout league play at 358:18 minutes.
 
Concordia College (5-5-1, 4-4-1) kept freshman goalkeeper James Jackson (Sewell, N.J.) and the Chestnut Hill College (5-6-2, 4-2-1) defense busy early with Clippers offering the affair's first run of corner kicks and scoring opportunities. Senior midfielder Hernan Angulo (Lima, Peru) issued the Griffins only first-half response just past the 30-minute mark. But it met the Clipper defense before ever reaching the goal and left the contest scoreless heading to intermission. Play balanced out in the closing period with the Griffins matching the Clippers until the contest's final shot. The Clippers difference-maker came at 88:18, when senior midfielder Victor Ruiz (Gijon, Spain) and sophomore midfielder Javier Alvarez Vispo (La Coruna, Spain) linked a corner restart to the scoring foot of senior defender Marco DiNello (Montville, N.J.), 1-0. The remaining 1:42 went by without any successful retaliation, leaving the Griffins to their first CACC loss in over a month.
 
DiNello supplied the Clippers clinching goal, but junior midfielder Ishmeal Yemoh (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.) supplied a team-high six shots atop the home team's 19-7 shot advantage. Sophomore Ruel Gordon (Savanna La Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica) made one save in the win (5-5-1).
 
Angulo, junior forward Juan Amaya (Cartagena, Colombia), and Lamin Sidibeh each took two shots at the Clippers goal with the Griffins seventh shot coming from freshman forward Charles O'Connell (Secaucus, N.J.). Jackson totaled eight saves in the loss (5-5-1).
 
The men's soccer team plays their next CACC contest at Holy Family University on Wednesday, October 16. Kickoff is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.