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Albany Downs Maine 3-0
Nov. 3, 2005 Albany N.Y. - Maine finish the season 2-11-2 and without a conference win finishing 0-6-2 in America East play with a 3-0 loss at Albany. The Great Danes (6-8-3, 3-4-1 AE) will travel to fourth-seeded Vermont on Saturday, Nov. 5 at noon for their first-round tournament match. Freshman Tufi Long scored his first career goal 36:13 into the first half as UAlbany shutout Maine, 3-0, in an America East Conference match on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at Varsity Field. With the win the Great Danes earned the fifth seed in the America East Conference Tournament which starts on Saturday, Nov 5. UAlbany got on the board late in the first half when Long took a through-pass from freshman Erik DiLorenzo and beat Maine goalkeeper Ben Piotrowski (Colchester, Vermont). Senior Yan Gbolo gave UAlbany a 2-0 advantage 1:58 into the second half off a pass from sophomore Trevor Elmo. Maine had two great chances to get back into the game down 2-0. Senior forward Adam Chenault (Maineville, Ohio) just missed connecting on a corner kick header. Minutes later, freshman forward Tom Goldie (Flaunden, England) hit a shot from just outside the eighteen yard box, but his shot sailed over the goal. Sophomore Eric Zekiroski added his second goal of the season with 14:15 left in the contest to extend UAlbany's lead to 3-0 and seal the win. "It's a very disappointing way to finish the season. This team deservd more than 11 losses. I'm extremley proud of this team, especially the seven seniors who will be very hard to replace," said head coach Travers Evans.
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