Many will recall Peoria Richwoods' star goalie last year Daniel Sinclair...
currently Sinclair is playing goalie at Millikin University...and he just accomplished one of the rarest scoring plays in soccer...
-occasionally a goalie can get an assist and on an even rarer scale - a goalie has even occasionally scored a goal in a college game...but..........
it is an exceedingly rare even when the player who is playing goalie in a game scores a goal ON A HEADER!
That happened Saturday in a game last Saturday when Millikin played Carthage (Kenosha, WI)..
in the final minute Sinclair pulled out of the goal and moved forward to play with an open net as Milliken trailed 1-0.
Then Milliken earned a corner kick and Sinclair scored the game-tying goal on a header.
Unfortunately Milliken lost in OT...but I can only find ONE other example of a college goalie scoring on a header -
currently Sinclair is playing goalie at Millikin University...and he just accomplished one of the rarest scoring plays in soccer...
-occasionally a goalie can get an assist and on an even rarer scale - a goalie has even occasionally scored a goal in a college game...but..........
it is an exceedingly rare even when the player who is playing goalie in a game scores a goal ON A HEADER!
That happened Saturday in a game last Saturday when Millikin played Carthage (Kenosha, WI)..
in the final minute Sinclair pulled out of the goal and moved forward to play with an open net as Milliken trailed 1-0.
Then Milliken earned a corner kick and Sinclair scored the game-tying goal on a header.
Unfortunately Milliken lost in OT...but I can only find ONE other example of a college goalie scoring on a header -