A Sea Of Red

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The No. 4 seeded Liberty Flames advanced to the conference semifinals, 5-4, over the No. 5 seeded Radford Highlanders, Thursday in the first game of the 2011 Big South Men's Soccer Championship at Greene-Harbison Stadium.

After the contest ended in a scoreless tie through 110 minutes of play, both Liberty goalkeeper Scott Sutarik and Radford goalkeeper Dane Wilson, who was inserted into the contest just for penalty kicks, made saves on the fifth kick with the kicks tied, 3-3, moving the shootout to extra penalty kicks.

After another stop by Sutarik in the eighth round of kicks, Juan F. Niño beat Wilson to advance the Flames to the next round, 5-4.

Big South feed cuts out during penalty kicks.....once again.

Liberty just took the lead in the 48th minute. Travis Joseph with the goal.

Darren Amoo tallies another in the 51st, 2-0 LU.

Coastal cuts it to 2-1 in the 65'.

This would be a huge upset! We still lead 2-1 after 75 minutes

Down to the final ten minutes still holding that 2-1 lead.

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The Flames pull off the HUGE upset of Coastal, 2-1!

LU will play Sunday afternoon in the championship for a chance to return to the NCAA Tournament once again.

CCU is a shoe-in for at-large bid to NCAA.

Sorry guys, I had to leave to get to the bball game tonight. I can't get the newlion stats to work on my phone.

Anyways what a great win!

There has to be some wailing and gnashing of teeth among teams looking to sneak in for an at-large...but definitely a big win for the Flames (and the second win over a ranked team this season)

It looks like we have peaked at the right time with 4 straight wins after a very tough stretch when we had trouble scoring even against bad teams. This was a very good win. Right up there with the UVA win earlier in the year. Maybe better.

We can't get ahead of ourselves though. There's still work to do. Gotta win the final.

Up 2-0 in final

Just into the 2nd half ....

Kyle Breitmeyer scored in the 11th minute & Phillip Aseweh gave us another goal in the 24th minute.

G-W is playing on their homefield and is the #2 seed so I hesitate to close the books on this one quite yet.

12 minutes into 2nd half we continue to hold a 2-0 lead. By the top of the hour, we could be champions and getting ready for NCAA tourney bracketing. Yep, I just said that with this much time left.

Darren Amoo gets credit for the 3rd goal in the 72nd minute as LU takes a commanding 3-Nil lead into the final 15 minutes of action.

We win the championship game, 3-1!

Flames heading back to the NCAA Tournament!

Way to go Flames!! Coach Alder said if everyone was healthy they could win this. They have a really good team just hit by the injury bug this year.

great weekend of soccer! Coach Alder and the team have battled all year and now we get a chance to make some noise in the NCAA Tournament!! congrats to the coaches and the guys!

Congrats to Coach Alder, his staff and the players. Keep it going.

Yay for us! Good job guys!

Great way to make a statement. Can't wait to see the Flames play in the NCAAs.

Tournament field announced at 4:30pm ET on Monday.