#2 Rio Grande advances to NAIA Men's Soccer Championship on PKs over Davenport

12/3/2016 12:00:00 AM

By Rio Grande Sports Information
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - What two periods of regulation time and two overtime sessions could not decide, one round of a penalty kick shootout did.

Freshman Deri Corfe scored on the University of Rio Grande's fifth and final shot of the shootout round, giving the RedStorm a 4-3 edge and allowing the defending national champions to advance from a 0-0 double-overtime tie with Davenport (Mich.) University in the semifinal round of the NAIA Men's Soccer National Championship, Friday night, at the Seacrest Soccer Complex.
Rio Grande, which was ranked No. 3 in the final regular season coaches' poll and seeded second in the tourney, moved to 21-1-2 with the scoreless deadlock.
The RedStorm will face top-seeded Hastings (Neb.) in Saturday's national championship game at 6 p.m. EST. The Broncos ousted Grand View (Iowa), 1-0 in overtime, in Friday's other semifinal contest.

Davenport, which was ranked No. 4 and seeded sixth, finished 20-3-2.
Rio Grande took a 1-0 lead in the shootout when senior Jeremy de Hoog (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) connected on his try after Davenport's Tyler Collishaw came up empty, but the momentum went back to the Panthers when Carson Brinks connected and Rio senior Pau Delgado Rodriguez (Barcelona, Spain) was off the mark, knotting the shootout at 1-1 through two rounds.
DU's Jeppe Marquardsen and Rio senior Lucas Talaveria-Befi (Sao Paulo, Brazil) were both successful in round three, but the RedStorm went back in front when junior Jorge Guinovart (Barcelona, Spain) followed a miss by the Panthers' Kevin LaCroix with a goal in round four.
Brogan Shrimpton knotted the shootout at 3-3 with a score in round five, but Dorfe - a freshman from Chester, England - sent a shot into the lower left corner of the goal while Davenport net-minder Aaron Orban dove to the right, allowing the RedStorm to advance.
Prior to the shootout, Rio had just two shots on goal among its 12 shots. de Hoog nearly came up with his second game-winner in as many days with 4:13 left in regulation, but his shot went off of Orban's hands and then off the crossbar before the Panther keeper was able to gain control.
Davenport had six shots on goal among its 17 total shots and had its own near miss in the second overtime period when Cam Cavanagh hit the crossbar just under two minutes into the session.
Orban finished with two saves in the loss for DU.
Sophomore Ben Martinez (Montpellier, France) stopped six shots in a shutout effort for the RedStorm.
Live video of Saturday's title match is available on a pay-per-view basis through www.NAIANetwork.com. Live statistics can be found at http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/Webcasts.aspx?association=10.