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It is not that soccer is boring or that the referee is the only one knowing how much time is left. Baseball is untimed and has many dull parts, as do basketball and football when everything is a time-out or a foul/penalty.
So the referee put the ball at essentially point-blank range from Milhollin, and gave a chosen Bulldog one shot to tie the game.
Marcotullio can say such things from first-hand experience after what happened Tuesday. He was chasing down a searching ball lofted into the Harvard's defensive end when he was tripped up from behind by Maine's Dan Noblet, but the referee failed to blow the play dead.
"I definitely thought I was fouled [and it led to an easy goal]," Marcotullio said. "But I guess the referee didn't see it that way."
"The linesman flagged [somebody else] for offsides, which was impossible because the goal went straight in off of a shot," Marcotullio said. "Fortunately, the referee went over to him, and they had a conference to straighten it out."