Times correspondent Kerry Klecic has this story from USF's men's soccer match Friday night ...

TAMPA — There USF junior Javed Mohammed stood in the penalty
box with 44 seconds left in regulation, his hands on his hips as he stared at
the ball that lay perfectly still on the penalty marker.

The No. 5 Bulls, knotted in a 1-1 tie with Marquette, were on
the cusp of victory as long as Mohammed could take care of the penalty kick that
freshman Hasani Sinclar won when he was taken down in the box in the last
minute.

A crowd of 1,452 at the USF Soccer Stadium stood as the
left-footed defender approached and struck the ball with the inside of his foot
and Marquette goalkeeper Matt Pyzdrowski dove to the left.

Wide right.

Mohammed’s miss sent the match into overtime, where a pesky
Marquette, which has only one win this season, held USF (4-0-1) to a 1-1 tie at
the USF Soccer Stadium Friday night in the Bulls’ Big East opener.

“I took the responsibility of the kick and time after time I
put that in,” said Mohammed, who entered the match with a team-high four points.
“This time it just didn’t go … I just didn’t take it right.”

USF and Marquette exchanged chances in overtime, with the
Golden Eagles striking the post in the first overtime and the Bulls having a
goal called back on a foul in the second.

“You always want to win, so I’m a little disappointed with
the result but I thought the team played well and created chances,” USF coach
George Kiefer said. “We had a lot of balls go across the goal that could have
been touched home.”

Redshirt sophomore midfielder Bernardo Anor put the Bulls up
in the first half, shaking a Marquette defender on his own and beating
Pyzdrowski on his near side of the box with a low right-footed strike in the
29th minute.

Anor tested the Marquette net a couple times during the first
half, including a well struck swirling free kick from nearly 25 yards out that
was saved by a diving Pyzdrowski.

The Golden Eagles turned things around quickly in the second
half, though. Marquette freshman Adam Lysak pulled the match level with his
first goal of the season in the 56th minute, a tap-in after a Marquette shot
ricocheted of the post.

USF forced a number of good saves out of Pyzdrowski in the
second half, as the Bulls poured on pressure but couldn’t find the breakthrough
goal.

“I think we did enough to win the game tonight,” Kiefer said.
“We just didn’t, so when you do that you can still feel pretty good about the
group.”

USF extends its home unbeaten streak to 21 games. The Bulls
host No. 21/23 Notre Dame Sunday at 1 p.m.

(Photo of USF's Bernardo Anor by Kerry Klecic)