Cory Cosgrave recorded his third shutout of the season. (Daily Universe)

Jarom Jordan

LA MIRADA, California (June 18, 2011) — Despite giving up three goals to Southern California at home a week ago, BYU held the Seahorses scoreless on the road Saturday night to earn a 0-0 tie.

“It was a fun game to watch,” said BYU assistant coach, Chad Sackett. “It was competitive. Both teams did well. We connected and did what we haven’t pushed through recently.”

The game was highlighted by three spectacular saves by BYU goalkeeper, Cory Cosgrave. The most notable save came with just four minutes to go when Southern California whipped a shot at goal from just outside the box that Cosgrave grabbed out of midair before a Seahorse forward go put away any rebound.

“Cory had three huge saves for us tonight,” said Sackett. “He came up big time for us.”

“We all came together,” said senior goalkeeper, Cory Cosgrave. “Will Burton went down. Ethan Meyer and Doug Clark stepped up for us. Everyone on the team this trip realized we need each other to succeed.”

Next week BYU returns to Provo for a pair of home games against the Ventura County Fusion (Thursday, June 23) and Los Angeles Legends (Saturday, June 25). Both kickoff at 8 p.m. mountain time and will be broadcast live on BYUtv and www.byutv.org/live.

POSTGAME NOTES
ROAD WARRIORS
BYU is now 1-2-2 with five points on the road this year. Five of BYU’s six total points have come away from Provo, earning a tie versus Orange County, a win at Ogden, and tonight’s tie.

SHUTOUT SHOUT OUT
In 2010 BYU recorded two shutouts. Through nine games in 2011 BYU has earned three shutouts. Tonight’s tie was the first against a team not named “Ogden” since June 5, 2010 against the Ventura County Fusion, the year after they won the Premier Development League championship.

2011 Shutouts
May 24  Ogden         0-0 T
May 28  @ Ogden    1-0 W
June 18 @ So. Cal  0-0 T

180 MINUTES
During the last two seasons BYU has shutout the Seahorses on the road, earning a 2-0 win last season and a 0-0 tie on Saturday night.

SERIES UPDATE
Tonight’s game was the 12th in series history. Southern California leads 6-5-1 but BYU is now 4-1-1 since 2006.Tweet

PROVO, Utah (Sept. 15, 2010) — The BYU men’s soccer team and Calle held its fourth annual street tournament, Saturday September 11.

“It was really awesome,” said tournament organizer, Tyler Christiansen.  “It went better than we expected.  It was a great display of soccer and we completed the objective of raising funds for the team.”

The BYU men’s soccer team hoped to create excitement about the upcoming fall season as well as raise $1,000 to cover equipment and operation costs for the fall roster.

Seventy people made up 15 teams of 4v4 in a round-robin tourney.  Each team paid $60 to participate and played in four games followed by a knockout playoff. The games were played in the parking lot of the Indoor Practice Facility featuring duck taped boundary lines and aluminum trash cans for goals.  It began at 9 a.m. and ended at 12:30 p.m.  Calle provided shirts, bracelets, and keychains for the event.

Junior forward, Blake Tillotson and Cory Cosgrave’s team defended their 2009 championship with an overtime victory against freshman, Ethan Meyer’s squad.

“Winning the tournament is always fun but it’s nice to have bragging rights over the other guys on the team,” said Tillotson.  “It’s about going out there and having fun.  There’s a lot of good players out there.”

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Junior goalkeeper, Cory Cosgrave is one of several Cougars who have played with the now defunct reserve team or trained with the 2009 MLS Cup Champs.  Here are some of Cory’s thought from that experience, about a month ago.

“I’m really not quite sure, but I think RSL first knew about me from Bryan. He has trained with them for some time and he approached me asking if I would be interested in doing it if he couldn’t make it or something.  Then one morning in May (maybe?) I got a call from Coach Watkins who said the RSL goalkeeper coach contacted him.  He asked me if I wanted to go train with them that morning, which I obviously agreed to.

So I went to Rio Tinto Stadium and signed a bunch of papers and what not. They gave me my training gear.  Met a few of the guys, but mostly just kept to myself in the locker room.  Then 30 minutes before training starts we head down to Xango field, their practice field.  I had a Chemistry test to take so I drove myself down so I could back to school.  Since the first time, the keeper coach has called me a few other times to come.

I was pretty nervous at the start, and still get that way a little, but its getting better.  It takes a few reps in warm-ups and they usually go away.   It’s that little kid feeling. You always dream of being a “professional soccer player” and for me this is probably the closest to it that I will ever get.

Each training, the keepers train for about 40 minutes then we move to playing small-sided games.  It’s been great for me because of the coaching I’m able to get to fix bad habits I’ve fallen into.  It’s great to be around the higher level of soccer.  I still make some “rookie” mistakes because of nerves or inexperience, but when I’m able to settle down, stop thinking so much and just play, then I honestly feel pretty comfortable and confident in playing against them.  It just takes one save to give you that boost.

Training with them gives me confidence because I’m improving and that usually carries over to our training.  At the same time, it keeps me plenty humble because at least once a practice I’ll take a wrist-breaking shot, or a shot to the face or stomach.  They do a good job of picking on the new guy. But it’s all good just to be there.”Tweet