Seton Hall University
Princeton
Pirates Fall to Princeton in Final Seconds
9/14/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Box Score | Box Score 
| Highlights | Photo Gallery 
For Seton Hall (1-2-1), it is the second game in a row a second-half lead slipped away, as the Pirates were coming off a 3-2 setback at No. 21 Delaware on Wednesday night, with the Blue Hens scoring twice in the span of 38 seconds with fewer than 20 minutes to play to come back and secure a win.
The Pirates trailed 2-1 at the half before using back-to-back goals from redshirt senior Victor Manosalvas (Clifton, N.J.) to take their first lead of the game in the 55th minute.
Manosalvas' first score of the day came off a penalty kick. The sequence leading to a foul in the box began with Manosalvas playing a ball to senior Mateusz Brela (Kielce, Poland) on the left side, who quickly directed a pass to a streaking Kai Greene (South Orange, N.J.) in the middle of the field. Greene split a pair of defenders and would have had a free path to the net if not for a foul call, two steps into the area.
On the ensuing penalty kick Manosalvas drove a shot past a diving Ben Hummel toward the left post for his third goal of the year and a second off a penalty kick.
Just over eight minutes later Manosalvas struck again, this time in the run of play. Sophomore Samuel Geiler (Offenburg, Germany) started the play, leading Greene down the left side toward the end line. Greene's speed proved to be too much for his defender, chasing down the through ball, which he settled and passed to Manosalvas at the far post for an easy finish.
Manosalvas scored twice for the first time in his career and now leads the Pirates with four goals and nine points through the first four games of the season.
The Tigers would bounce back to tied things up in the 67th minute as Myles McGinley found Griggs for a header from 10-yards out, but the game would not stay tied for long.
Seton Hall re-assumed control of the contest as Greene beat Hummel with a sliding shot off an Eric Lagg (Lafayette, N.J.) cross at the near post. Defender Julian Kennedy (Nindorf, Germany) played the ball out to Lagg on the far side of the field, and he drilled a pass to Greene to help the Pirates take a 4-3 lead.
It was the first-career assist for Kennedy, and Lagg's first assist of the season and second of his career. Greene now has a career-best three goals this season, and is second on the team in scoring with seven points.
Princeton drew even by converting on a penalty kick of its own in the 78th minute. Kennedy was whistled for a foul on the far side of the box on a physical play where he tried to take his man off the ball. Cameron Porter scored on the PK to tie the game for a fourth time, and the Tigers would secure the win in the final 30 seconds of action.
In the first half it was Brela scoring his first goal of the season and the second of his career. Geiler and senior Andrew LoManto (Massapequa, N.Y.) assisted on the play. Once again Geiler was the setup man, crossing to LoManto on the far side for a header on net. Hummel made the save on that attempt, but the rebound found Brela and his header into an empty net tied the score at 1-1. With a career-high three points, Brela recorded a point in back-to-back games for the first time in his career.
Seton Hall continues its three-match home stand on Friday, Sept. 19, when it hosts No. 22 George Mason University at Owen T. Carroll Field. Game time is scheduled for 4 p.m.
