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Galvin, Morais Too Much for Dominican in 3-1 Win

Galvin, Morais strike in either half; River Hawks could clinch NE-10 title Friday

Junior Daniel Galvin: Gave UMass Lowell a dream start in the fifth minute.
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Junior F Daniel Galvin (Attleboro, Mass.) and sophomore F Homero Morais (Somerville, Mass.) scored goals in either half as UMass Lowell defeated Dominican College, 3-1 Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference men's soccer clash at OMM Field.

The win halts a two-match slide for UMass Lowell, which improved to 12-3-1 overall and caps the regular season at Stonehill Friday afternoon at 3:30. With a victory, UMass Lowell can win the Northeast-10 Conference regular season title outright for the first time in school history.

Merrimack (8-2-1 in the NE-10) sits in second place entering tonight's home match against Saint Michael's while Southern New Hampshire (8-3-0 in the NE-10) is currently third, but has the tiebreaker over UMass Lowell with its 3-0 victory last week in Manchester.

Dominican slipped to 9-4-1.

“I thought we did a much better job putting them under pressure,” said head coach Christian Figueroa. “We did it better as a whole, to win balls back. I thought our backline did a very good job of forcing them to shoot from distance and from bad angles.”

Galvin gave the River Hawks a dream start in the fifth minute.  

Senior M Bruno Bonicontro (Marlboro, Mass.) touched past a defender near the endline, pulled back and found Galvin at the penalty spot, who slotted to the right of junior GK Andres Ruiz.

UMass Lowell doubled its lead in the 68th minute when sophomore Felipe Fagundes (Lowell, Mass.) sent an outswinging corner kick to the near post and into the stride of Morais, who tucked home his 11th of the year.

Dominican gifted UMass Lowell an own goal in the 78th minute when junior B Neil Lavanchy (Scituate, Mass.) penetrated down the left side and uncorked a shot which deflected in off a Dominican defender.

The Chargers pulled a goal back in the 86th when junior M Sony Narro crossed to junior F Jorge Zubillaga at the back post, who tapped past junior GK Chris Maierle (Wantagh, N.Y.).

Dominican outshot UMass Lowell 17-9 overall and 9-6 on target. Maierle stopped eight shots while Ruiz had three saves.
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