CARY, N.C. — Tarik Pannholzer scored within the opening minutes, Aleksa Janjic completed with 5 saves and an help and Marshall beat No. 1 seed Ohio State 1-0 Friday night time within the semifinals of the College Cup.
No. 13 seed Marshall (15-1-7) will play unseeded Vermont — which beat Denver on penalty kicks within the different semifinal — within the championship sport Monday (8 p.m., ESPN2, ESPN+).
Pannholzer slipped behind the protection on the counterattack and ran onto an extended objective kick performed by Janjic. Ohio State goalkeeper Max Trejo got here off his line and collided with teammate Siggi Magnusson on the fringe of the penalty space, and Pannholzer walked it into the objective for a 1-0 lead within the seventh minute.
Ohio State (16-2-4) had an amazing likelihood within the opening minutes, with David Ajagbe’s header off a nook kick ricocheting off the crossbar.
Marshall has made six consecutive NCAA tournaments, profitable the nationwide championship in 2020.
Marshall’s Takahiro Fujita was taken off the sector on a stretcher within the second half and was changed by Aleksandar Vukovic.
Ohio State’s Donovan Williams got here off with an obvious leg damage about 5 minutes into the sport and was changed by Nick McHenry.
The Buckeyes have been with out Nathan Demian, who was hit by an errant bullet from an off-campus taking pictures early Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio, simply hours after serving to the Buckeyes to a 3-0 win over Wake Forest within the quarterfinals. He stays hospitalized and cheered the team on from there Friday night time.
Vermont 1, Denver 1
Max Murray scored the decisive objective in a 4-3 shootout after Vermont and Denver performed to a 1-1 draw by way of additional time, and the Catamounts beat the No. 3 seed Pioneers to advance to their first males’s College Cup closing in program historical past.
Vermont (16-2-5), making its first look within the College Cup, grew to become simply the third workforce prior to now decade to beat two top-four seeds in a single match after additionally taking down No. 2 Pittsburgh final weekend. The Catamounts have received 10 NCAA match video games over the previous three years, essentially the most of any program within the NCAA.
Denver (15-4-4) was making its second look within the nationwide semifinals, with the earlier coming in a 2016 loss to Wake Forest in additional time.
Vermont goalkeeper Niklas Herceg blocked Ben Smith’s shot down the center along with his path leg and Murray answered along with his objective for a 3-2 lead within the shootout. Denver defender Trevor Wright had a left-footed shot look off the crossbar to ship Vermont into the championship match.
Both groups entered having not allowed a objective in the course of the match, and neither allowed one within the opening half.
Denver attacking midfielder Sam Bassett scored from distance within the 69th minute for his ninth objective of the season. Teammate Ian Smith saved the ball from going out of bounds on the tip line and handed it again to Bassett close to the nook of the 18-yard field. Bassett calmly chipped it over Herceg and into the alternative facet netting.
Yaniv Bazini tied it at 1 within the 84th minute along with his 14th objective of the season. He obtained behind the protection, chested down a lofted go from Nathan Siméon and calmly bounced it into the again of the online.
It was Vermont’s sixteenth objective this season coming within the 83rd minute or later.
Information from The Associated Press was used on this report.
