Men's Soccer - SMU vs. South Carolina (C-USA Semifinal)

[SMU Pony Mom]

Just noticed that CBS Sports channel is showing the Big east tournament.

I was able to watch the Huskies win earlier - nice to see them on TV!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

2:30 left

[smusoccer]

Common Stangs!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

1-0 FINAL!

SC with a last second corner. Ibarra catches it right on the line and gets totally run - leading to a nice little fight.

It will be interesting to see if they give any cards...

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

They just stopped the video and gametracker is stuck - so we may not know about any potential cards for a while.

Barnes already had a yellow and it looked like he might have been in there. Hopefully the officials will just call it a day.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

No final stats until gametracker is back, but what a HUGE accomplishment for the team to come up with a clean sheet in such a big game.

They way we have been bleeding goals this season tonight was just awesome. Great effort from the whole team.

UAB and UCF both gave us fits in Westcott this season, so the final will obviously be a challenge. Hopefully we will have everybody available - both for health and suspension reasons.

It's definitely time to start keeping next Thursday and Saturday evenings free!

Go Ponies!!!!!

[smupony94]

Great job Ponies and thanks for the recap.

[mathman]

Great job Ponies! And thanks for the play by play.

[smusoccer]

Well done Stangs! Lets bring home the Championship and hopefully a home opener for the Big Dance!

[Junior]

Awesome!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Gametracker just updated through 90 minutes and they don't show any cards from the end of the match. Keep your fingers crossed!

[SMU Pony Mom]

Great win!

[Soccer15]

Sunday's game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

[PonyPride]

From SMUMustangs.com:

Mustangs Shut Out No. 1 Seed South Carolina, Advance To C-USA Championship
SMU plays Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS Sports Network

Nov. 11, 2011

TULSA, Okla. (SMU) - The SMU men's soccer team shut out No. 1 seed South Carolina, 1-0, in the semifinals of the Conference USA Championship Friday night at Hurricane Stadium. The Mustangs will play in the C-USA Championship match on Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS Sports Network. With the win, SMU is now 12-6-1.

Junior Ben Hill scored the game's lone goal in the 27th minute. Following an SMU corner kick, T.J. Nelson collected the ball as it was cleared out of the box and fired a shot from about 22 yards out. Hill redirected the ball in front of the net, sending it just inside the right post for a 1-0 Mustang lead. The tally was Hill's second of the season.

Goalkeeper Jaime Ibarra had a stellar performance in net to earn his fourth shutout of the season. He had several big moments, making a point-blank save on a bullet by South Carolina's leading scorer Bradlee Baladez in the 55th minute and stopping a corner kick on the line with three seconds remaining in the game.

Senior defender Diogo de Almeida also had a nice play on Baladez as de Almeida made a sliding save in the 19th minute to prevent a Gamecock goal.

SMU will face the winner of the No. 17 UAB/UCF semifinal in the Conference USA Championship on Sunday at 1 p.m. The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

UAB up 1-0 on UCF at halftime. Based on our games with these teams this year I would much rather see UAB Sunday. Thoughts?