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Micaiah Garan kicks the ball in front of the soccer net during a recent game.
Soni Blair
1
Winner Pacific (OR) PAC (3-5-5, 3-4-2)
0
Lewis & Clark L&C (0-13-0, 0-9-0)
Winner
Pacific (OR) PAC
(3-5-5, 3-4-2)
1
Final
0
Lewis & Clark L&C
(0-13-0, 0-9-0)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Pacific (OR) PAC 0 1 1
Lewis & Clark L&C 0 0 0

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Brian Hauge

Garan Saves Five Goals in Narrow 1-0 Loss to Pacific

Micaiah Garan saved five shots, including point-blank double save in heartbreaker.





PORTLAND, Ore. –Freshman Micaiah Garan earned his second Northwest Conference start in net for Lewis & Clark College men's soccer against Pacific University and recorded five saves in a close 1-0 loss after a late game goal on Saturday.
 
THE BASICS
 
Pacific 1, Lewis & Clark 0 
(Lewis & Clark 0-13-0, NWC 0-9-0)
(Pacific 3-5-5, NWC 3-4-2)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The first half was quiet compared to the second, as the teams combined for six shots in the opening 45 minutes, and 15 shots after the break. The Boxers' Adam Landy provided the only shot on goal for either team in the first half. Landy intercepted a Pioneers' pass in the 18th minute, raced downfield, snuck past his defender, and ran into a sliding Garan, who intercepted his shot attempt and prevented the early score. Lewis & Clark's best chance in the first half came when junior Wesley Esparza Salazar booted a free kick to the far post, and sophomore Aashir Walson's header missed just wide.   
 
Ben Schwartz returned to the pitch for the Pioneers and drew a penalty at 48:38. Schwartz had the ball in the middle of the box when Pacific's Aidan Pierias received the red card on the push. Boxers' keeper, Zach Aderinto blocked the PK with a dive to his left. After a quick clearance, Schwartz was back in the box again, and Aderinto saved a second attempt by the sophomore. The Pioneers kept the pressure on, and freshman Owen Carroll sent a third attempt towards the Pacific keeper in under a minute.
 
Landy attempted to put the Boxers on the board again with a light tap past a creeping Garan at 59:06, but freshman Emmett Olson used his speed and made a sliding goal-line clearance to save the score.
 
Pacific's Cooper Hopkins booted a shot from the top of the box that ricocheted off Garan's gloves. The Boxers' Aiden Himes was there with a point-blank shot back to Garan, which bounced off for another point-blank shot by Noah Gosch, which sailed left of the goal.
 
Lewis & Clark freshman Nathaniel Pi-Sunyer lined up a shot on the near post at 75:50 to attempt to take the lead, but the shot bounced off the crossbar and back into play.
 
With under seven minutes left in the game, Pacific's Brodie Buchert found Conor Barres in the middle of the box, who bounced a header off the turf and into the net just past the stretched hand of a diving Garan.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
  • Schwartz finished with three shots, two on target, in his first game since September 9.
  • Garan recorded a career-high .833 save percentage with five saves on 14 shots faced.
  • The Pioneers' four shots on goal ties a team high for the season, they also had four shots on goal against Linfield on September 23.
  • This is the first time this season the Pioneers have allowed one goal to be scored in a game and only the second time in a countable game since the program restarted last season. The other game was a 1-0 loss at Pacific on October 10, 2022.
WHO'S NEXT
 
Lewis & Clark travels south to Willamette for a 2:30 pm game and begins a five-game stretch on the road, their longest of the season.  
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