GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Georgetown College snaps No. 21 Cumberland’s 11-match unbeaten streak with a 2-1 win at Toyota Stadium on Sunday afternoon. 

Cumberland (8-2-3, 5-1-3) suffers their first loss in the conference schedule this season as the Tigers scored two unanswered goals to get the win. With the loss, the Phoenix are tied with Bethel in the conference standings in second place with 18 points. Tennessee Southern picked up a 4-2 win over Shawnee State today to put the Firehawks in first place with 19 points. Cumberland will have to get a win on Thursday against the Firehawks to take home at least a share of the Conference Title depending on what Bethel does against Freed-Hardeman on Tuesday. 

Cumberland outshot Georgetown taking 18 shots in the match, five of them were on target. Georgetown posted 13 shots with five also on goal. 

In the early going both Cumberland and Georgetown had great looks, but weren’t able to capitalize. The Phoenix had a free-kick just outside of the box Robbie Lyons fired high over the crossbar. Georgetown’s chance came in the 12th minute as they played a through ball that got past all of the Cumberland defenders forcing keeper Jacob Forster to come out of the pipes and make a sliding save on a shot from Michael Devlin.

The Phoenix got on the board in the 19th minute after Robbie Lyons was fouled in the box to setup a penalty kick for Cumberland. John Azar buried it in the right corner for his second goal of the week. 

Just before the half, Cumberland had a great opportunity to add another goal. The Georgetown keeper came out of the box to pressure a wide open Edvin Grevskott. His shot beat the keeper, but back filling into the goal was Luca Perrin to make the save. Right after that, the Tigers went down and scored the equalizer on a goal from Luca Zellman for a 1-1 score at half. 

Much like the first half, both teams had good goal scoring opportunities. For Cumberland, Victor Ramirez fired a shot from outside the 18 that was saved by the Georgetown keeper. The Tigers were able to play a through ball on a counter that got behind the back line of Cumberland again  and Forster had to leave the box to come up and make the save to keep the match knotted at 1-1.

Georgetown was able to take the lead after Forester made a nice save on a header, but the rebound ended up at the feet of Nathan Sidwell for the goal with 20 minutes to play. 

Ramirez rifled another shot to the upper nine in the 73rd minute, but a great one handed save by Theron Handlen kept the score at 2-1.

Cumberland would continue to threaten, but were unable to push across the equalizer late falling to the Tigers, 2-1. 

The loss sets up a huge match for the Phoenix next Thursday against Tennessee Southern with the Mid-South Conference Regular Season Championship on the line and the all-important No. 1 seed in the Mid-South Conference Tournament.