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DePauw DPW (12-5-1, 4-3-1)
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Winner Kenyon KEN (15-3-0, 7-1-0)
DePauw DPW
(12-5-1, 4-3-1)
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Final
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Kenyon KEN
(15-3-0, 7-1-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
DePauw DPW 0 0 0
Kenyon KEN 1 0 1
Kevin Farina
Khaliun Ganibal

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Farina’s goal takes down Tigers, Owls advance

GAMBIER, Ohio -- One year ago, the DePauw University Tigers eliminated the Kenyon College men's soccer team in the semifinal round of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament. Wednesday, the Owls turned the tables, ousting the Tigers from the 2026 Tournament with a 1-0 semifinal win at Mavec Field.

The win bumped Kenyon's overall record to 15-3 and moved the Owls into the NCAC Tournament final, which will be played in Gambier on Sunday at 1 p.m. The Kenyon squad will host the winner of Wednesday night's game between John Carroll University and Denison University.

After both teams settled in Wednesday and got a flow for the game, it was a flurry of action late in the first half that led up to the Owls' game winner. DePauw cranked up the intensity first. Following a corner kick, Harrison Engel ripped a shot that glanced off the top of the Kenyon crossbar. One minute after that, DePauw's Julian Bell fired a bullet from the top right corner of the box, but Kenyon sophomore goalkeeper Matt Kayser was in position to make the stop.

Kenyon's ensuing possession saw first-year Mathis Elissaint place a perfect through ball to classmate Luca Bilotto, who broke free in the box and launched a shot that just missed by a few inches to the left.

Roughly four minutes after Bilotto's shot, he got back in the action again, striking a corner kick that led to the game's lone goal. From the left side, he sent in a high arcing pass to the right post, where Peter Bondartsov, also a first-year, headed it toward DePauw goalkeeper Sam Ortner. While Ortner waited to corral the soft header, Kenyon junior Kevin Farina raced across the box, got to the ball before Ortner, and booted it in off the right post.

The goal was Farina's third of the season and the assists were Bondartsov's second and  Bilotto's team-leading seventh of the season.

At that point in the game, the Owls built up an 8-2 advantage in shots taken and wound up finishing the contest with a 14-5 margin.

The Tigers came out firing with the second half's first two shots, but one of their attempts missed high and the other was blocked by a Kenyon defender. Those were two of only three shots taken in the second half by DePauw, as the Kenyon defense successfully protected its one-goal lead.

On the other side of the field, the Owls offense answered with six second-half shots, with half of those being on goal.

Kayser ended the game with two saves for Kenyon, while Ortner made four stops for DePauw, which wrapped up its season with a 12-5-1 overall record.
 
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Scoring Summary

Scoring Summary
Scoring Team Scoring Play
40:47
KEN Kevin Farina (3)
Assisted By: Peter Bondartsov , Luca Bilotto
GOAL by KEN Farina, Kevin Assist by Bondartsov, Peter and Bilotto, Luca.

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