ELSAH, Ill. - Webster University closed out the 2018 men's soccer regular season here Monday evening by scoring four second-half goals, including the game winner with 16 seconds left in regulation to post a 5-4 victory over Principia College in St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action at Principia Field and earn the No. 2 seed in SLIAC Tournament. 

With the scored tied and the match apparently heading to overtime, junior midfielder Edin Mehmedovic (St. Louis, Mo./Mehlville) scored a header right in front fo the goal with 16 seconds left in match to seal Webster's come-from-behind win and earn the right to host No. 3 seeded Greenville in Thursday's SLIAC semifinal at World Wide Technology Soccer Park in Fenton, Mo. Medmedovic's game winning scorer was assisted by sophomore defender Cameron Killian (St. Louis, Mo./Lindbergh). 

Webster improves to 14-4-1 overall and finishes 6-2-1 in the SLIAC, while Principia ends the season with a 7-6-0 overall record and a 5-4-0 mark in league play. 

The four goals allowed by Webster were the most in a match this season and the most since the Gorloks allowed five goals last season at Illinois Wesleyan and the four goals were the most allowed by Webster in a SLIAC match since allowing seven goals to Greenville in 2008. The Gorloks entered the match having allowed just a total of four goals in SLIAC play and nine overall goals on the season.

Coming into play on Monday, Webster needed to win the match to secure its spot in the SLIAC Tournament after Iowa Wesleyan picked up a 4-0 win earlier in the day against MacMurray to earn its spot in the tournament. The Tigers earned the No. 4 seed in the tournament thanks to WU's win and will travel to Louisville, Ky., to face regular season SLIAC Champion Spalding in a 6 p.m. semifinal match on Thursday evening.

Mehmedovic's game-winning goal came nearly two minutes after Principia's Kaleb Keller tied the match at 4 after scoring his fourth goal of the match from about 20 yards out that just got past Webster freshman goalkeeper Matt Coffey (Eureka, Mo./Eureka), who played the entire second half in place of sophomore goalkeeper Matt Amick (St. Louis, Mo./Lindbergh). 

Following the goal, Keller earned a red card for unsportsmanlike conduct and was ejected from the match. Keller was one three Panthers to earn red cards on the night as following Mehmedovic's goal with 16 seconds left, both David McCook and Kaden Keller earned red cards and E.G. Pierce received a yellow card. Those two red cards, along with Kaleb Keller's ejection left the Panthers with eight players on the field for the final 16 seconds of the match.

The Gorloks got the scoring started in Monday's match late in the eighth minute as senior forward Tucker Hively (St. Louis, Mo./Priory) took a pass from the right side of the box from freshman forward Aamahn Murvin (Sahuarita, Ariz./Walden Grove) and scored from 10 yards out to give Webster a 1-0 lead. 

Keller would tally his first goal in the 34th minute as he scored an unassisted goal to tie the match at 1-all.  

In the first half, the two teams combined for 13 shots and seven shots on goal as Principia took seven shots and had five shots on goal, while Webster had six shots and two shots on goal.

Murvin would give Webster a 2-1 lead in the 56th minute as he scored on a header off a throw-in by Hively.

Following Murvin's goal, Kaleb Keller came right about three minutes later to tie the match after he scored on a penalty kick and then gave the Panthers a 3-2 lead as he scored an unassisted goal off left footed kick just outside the box in the 57th minute.

Murvin would score his second goal of the game in the 79th minute as he took a shot in the box off a pass from junior midfielder Chris Clay (Quincy, Ill./Millikin) to tie the match at 3-all. Murvin leads the Gorloks with nine goals this season.

About four minutes after Murvin's goal, freshman Isaac Pearson (St. Louis, Mo./Maplewood) scored off a rebound shot right in front of the goal to give Webster a 4-3 lead.

For the match, Webster was outshot, 21-16 and 12-11 on shots on goal in the win. Murvin and Pearson combined for nine of WU's 16 shots as Murvin took five shots and three shots on goal, while Pearson took four shots, three of which were on goal.

Kaleb Keller took 13 shots and had eight shots on goal for the Panthers. 

Coffey (3-0-0) earned the win in net as he played the entire second half and recorded four saves to go along with the three goals he allowed. Amick played the first half and had four saves, while allowing one goal.

David McLeod-Warrick (4-5-0) took the loss in the net for Principia as he allowed five goals and recorded six saves. 

The match featured a combined 42 fouls as Principia was whistled for 23 fouls, including six yellow cards and three red cards and Webster had 19 fouls. 

Webster will return now turn its attention to the postseason as they host Greenville in a 6 p.m. match on Thursday, Nov. 1 in the semifinals of the SLIAC Tournament at Soccer Park. The two teams played to an 0-0 draw in double overtime during the regular season at Greenville.