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DALLAS — A pin drop could be heard at Mangelsdorf Field as junior Kenny Clapp stepped up to take the final penalty kick of the night, finding the back of the net to send the No. 3-seed Lycoming College men's soccer team to the MAC Freedom Championship final over Misericordia in a shootout, 5-4. The two teams tied after overtime periods, 2-2.
Before Clapp's turn in the penalty kick lineup, junior goalkeeper Nick Wilke stonewalled the sixth penalty shot the Cougars, his second stop of the penalty kick period.
The Warriors (10-4-6 overall) advance to the conference title game against No.1-seed and fourth-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday for a 7 p.m. kickoff in Hoboken, N.J.
It is the seventh time in coach Nate Gibboney's 10 years that the Warriors have advanced to a conference championship game, reaching the finals of the MAC Commonwealth in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019, winning titles in 2013, 2015 and 2017.
Clapp opened the scoring in the second half as both defenses held each other scoreless for 63 minutes. He skied for a header in the box off a corner kick from first-year Keller Chamovitz and it found its way into the left ninety.