FARMINGTON, Maine — Haidar Al-Freihy’s unassisted goal at 63:25 of the second half on Wednesday helped the University of Maine-Machias Clippers earn a 3-3 double-overtime men’s soccer tie against the University of Maine-Farmington.
Jairo Ulises Castillo scored one goal and set up a tally by Anthony Gonzalez for the University of Maine-Machias (9-4-1). Robert Devones made 10 saves.
Ibrahim Achekh scored two first-half goals for the Beavers (3-5-2), with Luke Sterling and Tristan Price posting assists. Zach Sathasivam scored in the second half. Matt Wilson made six saves.
Husson 0, Colby 0 (2OT)
At Waterville, Cody Gross made three of his six saves in overtime to help the Eagles grind out a scoreless tie against the Mules.
Tyler Mulberry made one save for Colby (2-5-2). Husson is now 6-3-1.
Women’s Soccer
Curry 3, MMA 2 (2OT)
At Castine, Kaitlyn Lima scored on Mary Blythe assist in the second overtime, lifting the Colonels to victory over the Mariners.
Lima scored an unassisted second-half goal and Samantha McGrath scored in the first half for 10-2 Curry College. Morgan Stott made four saves.
Susana DeFrank and Makayla Lewis each netted an unassisted goal for 4-6-1 Maine Maritime Academy. Maggie McConkey came up with six saves.
Field hockey
Colby 5, Husson 1
At Bangor, the Mules scored three goals during a 10-minute span of the first half to build an insurmountable lead and beat the Eagles.
Megan Fortier, Becca Moore and Eleanor Fitzgerald scored the first-half goals, then McKayla Branch and Fortier added goals in the second half. Hannah Hearn added two assists and Anna Rudinski had one.
Riley Whitmyer and Sarah Evans each made five saves for 6-4 Colby of Waterville.
Lauren Russell scored on a Taylor Lovley assist for Husson (4-5). Anne Marie Provencal.
Football
Oregon State hits soft spot of schedule
Oregon State is about where everyone figured the Beavers would be after four games — at 2-2 — coming off their bye because they beat two teams they should beat (Weber State and San Jose State) and lost to a pair of teams (Michigan and Stanford) which were physically too strong for OSU.
So now what? The schedule, starting with Arizona on Saturday, turns to not only games against opponents more on the Beavers level of talent, but three foes in Arizona, Washington State and Colorado which play a style more similar to OSU than any of the first four opponents.
This October run of games will test whether OSU falls to the bottom of the Pac-12 or can contend for the six wins needed to qualify for a bowl, with title contenders like Utah, UCLA, California and Oregon looming later.
So can the Beavers measure up to these teams similar to OSU?
“It still comes down to, at the end of the day, recruiting, to get into that spot and have the kids that can match up and play in those big spread offenses,” OSU coach Gary Andersen said. “And it’s no different when you get into a big, physical team that wants to come in there and knock you off the ball. That’s what the elite teams have is the ability to take on the physicality that may come their way and yet the spread things that come their way.”
Arizona has gone from being considered one of the conference’s possible contenders to a team searching for success after being routed 56-30 by UCLA and then pounded 55-17 by Stanford, which the Beavers can relate to with a similar defeat to the Cardinal. There is a question whether Arizona will have its starting quarterback at full-go for OSU, but the Wildcats have one necessary element of the spread offense in its talented receivers.
“There’s four and five of them on the field sometimes, and they’re all good receivers,” Andersen said. “We’ve played other teams this year and they’re spread out with tight ends in those receiving situations. But (Arizona has) the big, tall kids that can go up and get the ball and do a great job of that.
“They have the kids on the inside that can make you miss. They’ll get the running backs involved, also, in that situation in the empty sets.”