NEWBERRY - The sixth-seeded Wingate University Bulldogs advanced to the semifinals of the 2006 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament with a 4-2 victory over the third-seeded Newberry College Indians at the Newberry College Soccer Complex on Wednesday afternoon.

A Lee Minton header off a corner kick by Jonathan Gribben in the 52nd minute turned out to be the game winner for Wingate (9-7-1).

Newberry (8-9-0) opened the scoring on a goal by first-team all-SAC forward Debola Ogunseye (Lagos, Nigeria) in the fifth minute on a blast to the right corner from a one-on-one situation against Wingate goalkeeper Jonathan Schute.

But Wingate got an opportunity to tie the match in the seventh minute with a penalty kick after the ball bounced off the hand of a Newberry player inside the 18-yard box. First-team all-SAC defender Kerrin Sheldon converted the penalty kick to tie the match.

In the 39th minute, Gribben scored when he headed in a Bulldog throw-in that bounced loose in the Newberry penalty area to give Wingate the 2-1 lead it would take into the half.

Wingate would use two early second half goals to pull away from the Indians.

After Minton's header goal in the 52nd, A.J. Wullschleger scored his second goal against Newberry this season in the 55th minute on an assist from second-team all-SAC forward Junior Nyemb, giving Wingate the 4-1 lead.

Newberry turned up the offensive pressure for the rest of the match, but was only able to find the back of the net once more, when William Koch (Greenville, S.C.) slotted a through ball to Ogunseye in the 73rd minute. Ogunseye converted on the opportunity for his 16th goal of the season.

Ogunseye's 16 goals in this season ties him for third place in the Newberry record books with Rick Ladimir's total in 2001. The 38-point season by the Nigerian is the third-best by a Newberry player, and puts him in a tie with Chad Domis for fifth all-time at Newberry in points.

Wingate advances to the semifinals of the Food Lion SAC Tournament, where they will play second-seeded Lenoir-Rhyne College at 3 p.m. Friday at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn.