Anderson gets 200th win at St. Olaf as Oles open MIAC play with win over Pipers

Mike Ludwig
September 16, 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Olaf men's soccer team delivered head coach Kurt Anderson his 200th win with the Ole men in a 2-1 victory over host Hamline University on Wednesday.

The win didn't come easy for Anderson's Oles, who needed two goals from the bench inside the final 10 minutes to pick up the league-opening win.

St. Olaf (3-0-1, 1-0-0 MIAC) outshot the HU 11-3 but couldn't find the net until late in the second frame.

The Oles' Sam Harrington broke the scoreless tie in the 81st minute off a feed from Erik van Mechelen to make it 1-0. Just over two minutes later, at 83:13, first year Jack Pueringer scored on assists from John Zietlow and Isaac Tut to seemingly put away the Pipers (3-4-0, 0-1-0 MIAC).

Hamline, however, got within one on a Drew Lukas tally with 1:10 left in regulation off a Moe Tageldin corner kick.

St. Olaf held on in the final 70 seconds to secure the win.

Anderson has 309 wins in his career, including a 200-142-21 record with the Ole men. He went 61-38-10 in seven seasons to start his career at Augustana College and took on the St. Olaf women's program for five seasons (2001-05), compiling a 47-37-7 record. Anderson led the Oles to its last title, a shared crown in 2004, and has 10 double-digit win seasons to his credit including an 11-win season in 2007 and a 10-victory campaign in 2008. He is the winningest men's soccer coach in school history.

The Oles will play at Saint John's on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Contact media relations specialist Mike Ludwig at (507) 786-3834 or ludwigm@stolaf.edu.