Box Score PURCHASE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville men's soccer team finished their 2012 season with a 2-1 loss in the Freedom Conference semifinals on Friday afternoon to the FDU-Florham Devils.

The game started off in favor of the home team as Manhattanville got on the board quickly with a strike from the center of the box off the foot of senior Eros Olazabal (Milton, Ontario/Bishop Reding) after receiving a pass from Moshee Kelyana (Scarborough, Ontario/Brebeuf College) to put the Valiants up 1-0 just 3:26 into the contest.
 
The Valiants held the lead through the final 41:34 of the half to take its 1-0 lead into the halftime break. Shots in the first half were in favor of Manhattanville at a 6-1 margin.
 
Just under 90 seconds into the second half, FDU-Florham evened up the game as Ryan Hurdes, who had come on in relief during the first half netted a goal off of a corner kick to tie the game at one.
 
FDU-Florham continued to control a lot of the play in the second half despite getting out shot in the second half by Manhattanville. The Devils had another opportunity in the 86th minute as it was Hurdes once again to send the ball to the back of the net and put FDU-Florham up for good at 2-1.
 
Manhattanville had two chances within the last three minutes to even up the game, but a pair of freshman pushed their shots wide of the target. Freshman defender Kevin O'Reilly (Stamford, Conn./Trinity Catholic) sent the first shot well over the crossbar, followed by a header from goalkeeper Steve Singson (Deer Park, N.Y./St. Anthony's), who came up to the offensive zone in the final 30 seconds and sent his shot just left of the post.
 
Final statistics on the game were in favor of Manhattanville as they outshot its opponent 18-6, while taking three more corner kicks than FDU-Florham at a 5-2 margin.
 
In goal, Singson registered one save while yielding the two Hurdes tallies to take the loss and end his season with a 6-4-4 record. In goal for FDU-Florham was Tim Kirk, who moved to 3-2 after allowing the early goal and then stopping 10 straight to finish the game with as many saves.
 
Manhattanville finishes its season with an 8-7-4 overall record and a 5-1-1 Freedom Conference mark heading into the offseason. The Valiants will open up its 2013 schedule at a time, place and an opponent to be announced at a later date, stay tuned to GoValiants.com sometime in the spring for the release of the 2013 slate.