Melton Named 2nd Team All-SCAC

Austin College men’s soccer player Chris Melton has been named 2nd Team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, the league office announced today.

Melton, a junior forward from Sherman, finished the season tied for third in the SCAC with 12 goals and sixth in points with a total of 25. Melton scored eight of his 12 goals against SCAC competition this season, and accounted for over a third of the team’s scores this year. He also had one game winning goal this season for the ‘Roos.

2010 Senior Day

On Sunday November 7, prior to the Roo's game against Hendrix College, 6 seniors were recognized prior to kick-off. Below is are the write-ups on each senior from our Sports Information Director Jeff Kelly.


Our first senior is a four year starter from Red Oak with a dual major in Business and Political Science. During the course of his career he played in 63 games and has scored eight goals and added five assists for a total of 21 points and has one game winner to his credit. Here today with his father Roger, his mother Lyn and his stepmother Karen, #3 Garrett Evans.


Our next senior is a four year letter winner from Sherman who has appeared in 18 career games. A strong leader on and off the field, he is one of the team’s captains this season and is an SCAC Academic Honor Roll member. A Business major with a minor in ESS, he is here today with his parents Diane and Harold. #15 Matt Rogers.



Our next senior is a four year letter winner from Denton who has appeared in 62 career games, starting 16. He has a Business major with a minor in History and is a member of the SCAC Academic Honor Roll, and in his career he has one goal and four assists. Here today with his parents Mark and Gina, #6 Jason Replogle.


Our next senior is a three year letter winner who has appeared in 34 career games including 28 starts. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he is an Environmental Studies major with a minor in Political Science. This season he tallied his first career goal and has added two assists from his defensive position. Here with his parents Chris and Melanie, #9 Conrad Osborn.


Our next senior is a three year letter winner who has appeared in 45 games with 11 starts. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, he is a dual major in Economics and Mathematics and is a member of the SCAC Academic Honor Roll. He has tallied two goals and six assists in his career, and is the son of Sandra Crooks and Floyd Campbell. Here with him today are Roddy and Laura Stein (parents of Junior Midfielder Chris Stein), #14 Jason Campbell.


Our final senior is a three year letter winner from Paris with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Spanish. A hard worker both on and off the field, he is a SCAC Academic Honor Roll member and is on course to graduate in just three years. Here with his parents John and Jae and his brother Matt, #19 Ben Dickinson.


A great group that has certainly put their stamp on the program and will be missed.

AC 2 - University of Dallas 1 OT

What a game. We came into this game against the University of Dallas after a 13 day break due to our cancelled game with Colorado College. That a significant amount of down time and so there was a concern that we would come out flat and not perform to the level we had reached in the prevous couple of games. That happened.

AC would come out sluggish and would settle back into our old ways by allowing our opponent to make the most of simple mistakes. Dallas would go up 1-0 in the 12th minute to put us in the hole early. We had been there before, but this would not be our day as we could never muster the energy and level that we needed...at least for 89:50 of the game.

With 10 second to play Chris Melton(Sherman, TX) would take a feed from junior Stephen Crisco(Weatherford, TX) and senior Garrett Evans(Duncanville, TX) and find the back of the net for the equalizer. It was Melton's team leading 10th goal of the season and would send the Roo's to overtime for the 5th time this season.

The momentum would definitely swing and any energy that we lacked for nearly all of the game was there for the overtime period. While AC would control most of the play, our energy to get forward for the game winner certianly allowed Dallas some opportunities. Junior keeper Grant Gosselin(Phoenix, AZ) had to come up big twice in OT to keep the game level. It would seem that we would be headed to the second OT period when Garrett Evans would take a throw in from junior Robert Lamilla(Coppell, TX) and feed sophomore Guillermo Allande(El Paso, TX) for the game winner. Allande would take his first touch around the defender and hit upper right for his second goal of the season.

An incredible way to finish the game after what was not our day for nearly most of the game. AC would outshoot Dallas 28-12 with Gosselin having to make 2 saves on the day.

Next up...our final two games of the season. Rhodes College on Friday and Hendrix College on Sunday. Both major SCAC games that will directly affect where we finish.

WEEKEND NOTES

Austin College is set to break ground on an new academic building, The IDEA Center, that is being built where the old tennis complex used to be. This will affect access to the soccer facility for our last 3 games. A release was sent out today by Austin College describing this impact:

...spectators should now use the gate located at the northwest corner of the soccer field on Richards Street or the gate located on the west side of the field directly behind the baseball stadium on Porter Street.

It should be noted that persons should use parking areas and not park on streets designated as “No Parking” areas. Parking areas are available to the east of the Russell Tennis Complex and also north of Abell Library, in addition to areas on the south and southeast parts of campus.

Colorado College Game Update

Our game with Colorado College that was cancelled last weekend due to severe weather will NOT be made up. It was originally rescheduled for this Friday October 29, however due to several circumstances that game will not be played.