PAPILLION, Neb. -- Fletcher Hedge and Ombeni Mubake each scored to rally the Bellevue University men's soccer team from a first half deficit to post a 2-1 victory over Northwestern College on Saturday evening.
The Bruins improve to 3-3-2 with the win while Northwestern falls to 2-4-0.
Stan van den Beld scored the first goal of the game in the 32nd minute. Gerrard Uamai rifled a shot that Taariq Ganga stopped initially but Uamai collected his own rebound and found van den Beld who ripped a one-timer over the bottom of the crossbar and over the goal line.
Fletcher Hedge leveled the contest in the 39th minute, turning and firing from 15 yards out to beat the keeper low and to the far side of the goal.
The score remained 1-1 into halftime as the first 45 minutes were pretty evenly played with the stats reflecting as much; BU held a 5-4 advantage in shots.
Ombeni Mubake put Bellevue ahead in the opening minutes of the second half, finding his third goal of the year in the 49th minute. Caedmon Schwanke began the sequence with a pass to Mubake across midfield. Mubake worked a give-and-go with Gabriel Dias Juliani who slotted a pass across the six to Mubake who blasted home the go-ahead goal.
Ganga made three saves including a tremendous leaping stop, punching the ball over the crossbar in the 67th minute as he crashed into the post.
Pablo Aspas also finished with three saves in the loss.
Bellevue out-shot Northwestern by a narrow 9-8 margin overall and 5-4 on goal while the Red Raiders gained four corner kicks to BU's three.
Bellevue hosts Grand View University (5-0-0) Tuesday, Sept. 12 for a 7:30 p.m. kick-off at Papillion Landing.
