MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Marshall men’s soccer coach Chris Grassie described his team’s first match in Morgantown this season as its worst performance, with the Thundering Herd suffering a 3-0 loss in Morgantown on Halloween.

On Wednesday night, 12th-ranked Marshall made the most of an opportunity to settle the score in a Sun Belt semifinal as Joao Alves converted a penalty kick with 36 seconds remaining in the second overtime to lift the third-seeded Herd to a 3-2 victory over the 17th-ranked Mountaineers at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

“It was a much better performance,” Grassie said. “That was probably our worst performance of the season and this was probably our most gritty performance of the season.”

As the No. 2 seed, WVU (12-4-3) was host and would’ve been again Sunday for the Sun Belt

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