No. 24 Georgetown’s road win at Providence earlier in the evening moved them into a tie for first-place in the Big East standings, but their stay was short-lived as 19th-ranked Creighton earned a crucial three points with a 2-1 win over Marquette on Wednesday night at Morrison Stadium to improve to 10-3-2 on the season and 6-0-1 in league play to retake the lead in a tight race for the regular season title.
Senior midfielder and co-captain Joel Rydstrand set up both of Creighton’s goals after head coach Elmar Bolowich moved him up a line into more of an attacking position in order to jump start an offense that hadn’t found the back of the net in over 200 minutes entering the match, but Creighton’s coach wasn’t the only one who shook things up on Wednesday as junior midfielder Ziyad Fares needed only one minute and fifty-eight seconds on the pitch to end a scoring drought at Morrison Stadium that spanned more than two weeks.