Brandon Aubrey made a name for himself at Notre Dame as a center back, but it was while playing as a reserve striker that he was able to win the biggest game of his career to date.
“That was a lot of fun, kind of a whirlwind year,” Aubrey said in an interview back in January after signing with the Bethlehem Steel. “I was still playing striker then. I got in for 10 minutes spelling Leon Brown.”
Brown had a first-half goal in the game that brought the Irish back from a one-goal deficit and West Chester-native Andrew O’Malley scored the game-winner in the 60th minute off a free kick from Harrison Shipp that brought the first national title in men’s soccer back to South Bend.