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Olivar Callado
Oliver Callado scored his first goal of the season to give Harding a 3-2 victory.
2
Southern Nazarene SNU (1-11-1, 1-3-0 GAC)
3
Winner Harding HU (10-3-0, 2-2-0 GAC)
Southern Nazarene SNU
(1-11-1, 1-3-0 GAC)
2
Final
3
Harding HU
(10-3-0, 2-2-0 GAC)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Southern Nazarene SNU 1 1 2
Harding HU 3 0 3

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | by Scott Goode (10/12/16)

Callado Penalty Kick Keys Harding Men's Soccer's 10th Victory

SEARCY – Harding men's soccer scored three first-half goals and held on in the second half to defeat Southern Nazarene 3-2 and notch the first 10-win season in program history.

Harding improved to 10-3-0 overall and moved into sole possession of second place in the Great American Conference at 2-2-0. The victory also guaranteed the first winning season for a Bison program that began in 2000.

Southern Nazarene is winless in its last six games and dropped to 1-11-1 overall and 1-3-0 in the GAC.

Substitute Oliver Callado played only 12 minutes, but he was on the field in the 39th minute when the official whistled Southern Nazarene for a handball in the box. Callado stepped up and drilled the resulting penalty kick for the eventual game-winning goal.

Callado's goal, which made him the 11th different Harding player to score this season, put the Bisons ahead 3-1.

Just over 10 minutes earlier, Southern Nazarene's Mitchell Johnson scored the Storm's first goal on a free kick. Johnson also scored the only goal of the second half in the 47th minute, also on a free kick. He has a team-high five goals for Southern Nazarene.

Barry Foster opened the scoring with a tap-in goal in the 14th minute. He received a cross from Matheus Ribeiro, who lifted the ball over two Southern Nazarene defenders to a waiting Foster. It was Foster's fourth goal of the season and third in his last two games.

Ribeiro gave Harding a 2-0 lead with his team-leading fifth goal in the 26th minute with Braeden Grundy providing the assist on a through ball up the right side.

Junior Thomas Shults, who missed the first half of the season with an injury, got his first start at goalkeeper for the Bisons and made three saves in the victory.

Harding takes on GAC leader Oklahoma Baptist on Friday in Searcy. The game begins at 7 p.m. at Stevens Field. Oklahoma Baptist has won six straight games and is 4-0-0 in GAC games.
 
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