Nov. 4, 2003

Final Stats

Winston-Salem, NC - Jeremiah White's penalty kick 18 seconds after halftime was the difference in a 1-0 victory on Tuesday night against Davidson in a physical, hard-fought game that featured 28 fouls and five yellow cards. The Demon Deacons improved their record to 13-3 overall while the Wildcats fell to 11-5-2.

Wake Forest finished the regular season with a perfect 9-0 home record. It was the first time in school history the Deacons went unbeaten and untied at home.

The only goal of the match came just 18 seconds after the halftime break. Davidson took the second half kickoff, but Wake Forest immediately stole it away. White, Scott Sealy and Vicente Bastidas combined for a build-up that resulted in Bastidas getting undercut one stride inside the penalty area.

White buried the penalty kick for his seventh goal of the season and his fourth in the last three games. Later in the match, White clanged a shot off the post that would have given the Deacons added cushion.

In the closing seconds of the first half, the Wildcats had great back-to-back chances to strike first but Steven Curfman and William Hesmer kept the game level at zero. With 35 seconds to play before halftime, Davidson's David Peoples beat Hesmer to a cross and headed the ball from 17 yards out. After two bounces, the ball seemed destined for the net but Curfman swooped in at the last possible moment and cleared the ball out of play.

On the ensuing throw-in, Cass Baltz lined a long shot through traffic toward far post but Hesmer's diving save pushed the ball wide.

Hesmer and senior Brad McEachern combined for Wake Forest's third straight shutout. The Deacons haven't allowed a goal since the Gardner-Webb game on October 25, a span of 349 minutes.

The Deacons close the regular season on Saturday at UNC Greensboro at 7:00 p.m. The brackets for the 2003 ACC Tournament have been established and Wake Forest will be the two-seed. They will face seventh-seeded Duke next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C.

	        1	2	-	F
Davidson	0	0	-	0
#3 Wake Forest	0	1	-	1

45:18	WFU	Jeremiah White (7) (penalty kick)

Shots:	Wake Forest 8, Davidson 5
Saves:	Wake Forest 2 (Hesmer 1, Team 1), Davidson 2 (Creasman)
Corners:	Wake Forest 5, Davidson 4
Fouls:	Wake Forest 14, Davidson 14
Offsides:	Wake Forest 5, Davidson 8
Attendance: 	841
Cautions:	Wake Forest 2 (Sealy, Bench), Davidson 3 (Antunez, Baltez, Bass)