Top seeded Framingham State and second seed Salem State will face off on Sunday, November 10 at noon in the MASCAC Men's Soccer Championship after winning their semifinal contests on Friday.

#1 Framingham State 2, #4 Worcester State 0       Box Score

Framingham, Mass.- The top seeded Framingham State men's soccer team used two first half goals to send the Rams over #4 seeded Worcester State and advance to the 2019 MASCAC Championship on Sunday. The Rams will host #2 seed Salem State at noon at Maple Street Field. 

After controlling most of the possession in the early portion of the game it looked like the Rams were going to break through in the 27^th minute when Isaac De Souza sent in a strike from the top of the 18 that hit the cross bar and was cleared out of danger. 

In the 30^th minute the Rams broke through after a Lancers foul just outside the 18 set up a free kick, junior Bryce Nardizzi snuck a shot inside the left post for the 1-0 advantage. Moments later a freshman Gustavo Cassemiro headed in a beautiful cross from classmate Dante Mancini to go up 2-0.

Worcester looked to have a great chance in the final minutes of the 1^st half but their free kick from just outside the 18 was saved by Rams senior keeper Corey Davidge to keep them off the board. 

In the 62^nd minute junior Liren Halle headed a great chance that was again saved impressively by Davidge. The Rams keeper made another great save with just over ten minutes to play when a Lancers player gathered a one-time pass from 15 yards that Davidge swatted out of play. 

The Rams held a 27-to-14 advantage in shots in the contest include a 17-to-2 margin in the first half. 

Davidge finished the night with twelve saves while his counterpart senior Henri Guilmette made eight saves in net for the Lancers.

#2 Salem State 3, #6 Bridgewater State 3  PKs Home     Box Score

SALEM, Mass. – Second-seeded Salem State University advanced to the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) championship game on penalty kicks after forging a 3-3 double overtime tie with #6 Bridgewater State University in the semifinal round of the 2019 MASCAC Men's Soccer Tournament on Friday evening at Alumni Field. Salem won the penalty kick shootout by a margin of 5-4.

The host Vikings (11-4-3) will travel to top-seeded Framingham State University on Sunday to take on the Rams at noon with the MASCAC title and a trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament on the line. Framingham blanked #4 Worcester State University in the other semifinal matchup, 2-0. The visiting Bears end the season with an overall record of 5-13-2.

Freshman forward Nicholas Ramos (Middleboro, Mass.) opened the scoring in the 18th minute with his team-leading tenth goal of the season. Ramos buried a shot inside the right post from just inside the 18 after the Bears were unable to clear the ball out of the box off a Salem cross.

Senior forward Justin Borges (Milford, Mass.) tied the score just 23 seconds later as he buried a one-timer into the top-left corner of the net from 20 yards out off an attempted Salem clearance.

Senior forward Grace Dos Santos (Brockton, Mass.) scored on a breakaway to give the Vikings a 2-1 lead in the 40th minute. Dos Santos got behind the BSU defense off a long pass from junior midfielder Lucas Amaral (Peabody, Mass.) and chipped the ball over the BSU netminder and into the back of the net for his fourth goal of the 2019 campaign.

Just over three minutes later, freshman midfielder Will Halben (Attleboro, Mass.) knotted the score with his second goal of the season. Off a short pass from Borges, Halben beat the keeper one-on-one from the right side of the 18 with a shot inside the near post.

Borges converted a penalty kick in the 62nd minute to put the Bears on top, 3-2. Junior midfielder Stanislaus Sokolov (Reading, Mass.) drew the foul in the box that led to Borges' team-leading ninth goal of the season.

Amaral scored off a corner kick in the 71st minute to tie the game up at 3-3.

BSU senior goalkeeper Nate Morgado (Dartmouth, Mass.) punched one over the crossbar in the 86th minute to keep the score deadlocked as the game headed to overtime and then ultimately to penalty kicks.

In the shootout session, Salem senior netminder Christopher Jimenez (Nashua, N.H.) stopped the Bears' first attempt. The next nine attempts all found the back of the net. Amaral, Dos Santos, Ramos, freshman defender Dylan Senra (Dartmouth, Mass.) and junior midfielder Joao DeSouza (Lowell, Mass.) converted for the Vikings, while senior defender Zachary Ells (Douglas, Mass.), junior forward Kevin Roberts (Medway, Mass.), Borges and junior midfielder Shane Ebanks (Upton, Mass.) scored for the Bears. DeSouza's conversion on Salem's fifth attempt sent the Vikings to the MASCAC title game.

Salem finished with a 14-10 shot advantage for the game as well as a 10-0 edge in corner kick attempts. Morgado made nine saves for the Bears, while Jimenez and sophomore Matthew Hauntsman (Milford, N.H.) combined for two saves between the pipes for the Vikings.

Releases courtesy of Bridgewater State and Framingham State Sports Information