Saturday Scoreboard
Oral Roberts 4, SIUE 3
Dayton 2, West Virginia 0
Cincinnati 4, Bowling Green 3
Marshall 2, Akron 1
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Oral Roberts 4, SIUE 3
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TULSA, Okla. – SIUE men's soccer played its third consecutive overtime game Saturday, falling on the road 4-3 to Oral Roberts.
The Golden Eagles' Jose Castro found the game winner just over two minutes into extra time. Castro found the upper corner from 15 yards out to end it.
The Golden Eagles went on top with a pair of early goals. An SIUE mistake led to the first goal. ORU's Reed Berry pressured a pass back to goalkeeper Noah Heim, took the ball away and tapped it home in the eighth minute.
"We had a great start to the game and then gave a goal away," SIUE Head Coach Cale Wassermann said. "You cannot do that at this level."
Berry carried down the right side less than four minutes later before finding Dante Brigida in the box for the second goal.
The Cougars pulled within a goal just before halftime when Matthias Krigbaum scored his first of the year. Krigbaum scored from the near the penalty spot after a short cross from Vincent Jackson II in the 42nd minute.
Brigida made it a 3-1 ORU advantage in the 48th minute, before the Cougars made their comeback.
"Oral Roberts is a quality team with hungry and athletic attackers who caused us problems all game," Wassermann added.
Jorge Gonzalez struck twice in the span of four minutes to level the score. After an Oral Roberts foul in the box, Gonzalez buried the penalty kick to bring SIUE within one in the 53rdminute. He tied the game with a strike in the 57th minute after a short cross from Jorgen Pettersen.
Gonzalez had three more chances after goal, including two shots on goal. He finished with seven total shots. Oral Roberts doubled up SIUE in shots 20-10.
"We had some spells where I though we settled the game, but we just didn't have our edge tonight," Wassermann said.
The Cougars stay on the road for a Tuesday game at Kansas City.
Dayton 2, West Virginia 0
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 20-ranked West Virginia University men's soccer team fell to Dayton, 2-0, on Saturday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown.
The Mountaineers conceded goals in the 65th and 67th minute in the squad's first loss since Sept. 2. WVU finished with 11 shots but only one was placed on goal.
"We didn't play well enough to win," WVU coach Marlon LeBlanc said. "We were wasteful in front of the goal on the attacking side of things, and we literally just missed the target too often and got punished on dead balls. We're not good enough to miss as many chances as what we missed tonight and still win. We have to be a little bit better in the final third. At the end of the day, we got what we deserved. A lot of times you feel like you're the better team and let one get away. Tonight, we weren't the better team and didn't deserve to win."
WVU (4-2-1) nearly opened the game with a goal in the ninth minute, when senior defender Albert Andres-Llop sent a low cross into the middle of the box. However, no Mountaineers were near enough to connect with it in front of the goal.
After sophomore forward Josh DiMatteo missed wide in the 20th minute, junior goalkeeper Steven Tekesky made the first of his three saves on the night with a diving effort in the 33rd.
The two teams went on to combine for just eight shots in the first 45 minutes, as the Mountaineers and Flyers returned to the locker room scoreless at halftime.
In the second half, WVU nearly found its breakthrough off a corner kick in the 52nd minute. After the corner was played in, senior defender Logan Lucas and junior defender Kevin Morris each got their heads on the ball for shots, but neither found the back of the net. Morris' attempt hit between the corner of the post and crossbar and stayed out to keep the contest even at 0-0.
Then, Dayton (3-4) opened the scoring in the 65th minute on a goal from inside the box that beat Tekesky. Less than two minutes later, the Flyers struck again, as the visitors found a header goal to make it 2-0.
Down a pair, the Mountaineers attempted to create a quick-strike attack in their final third but failed to earn a tally on the scoreboard.
UD outshot West Virginia, 13-11, while the Mountaineers held a 7-4 advantage in corner kicks. Freshman midfielder Luke McCormick led the way for WVU with four shots in the loss.
Saturday marked the Mountaineers' first regular-season home loss since Sept. 25, 2018, against Radford. It also snapped the squad's two-match win streak.
Despite the setback, WVU leads the all-time series with Dayton, 2-1.
Next up, West Virginia returns to the road to take on Ohio State on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Kickoff at the Buckeyes' Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus is set for 7 p.m. ET.
Cincinnati 4, Bowling Green 3
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Marshall 2, Akron 1
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A pair of unanswered tallies over a nearly three-minute span late in the decisive second half lifted Marshall (5-1-1) to a come-from-behind men's soccer victory past Akron (0-6) on Saturday, Sept. 21.
After freshman Mani Austmann (Gardabaer, Iceland) gave the Zips a 1-0 lead with his first collegiate goal in the 55th minute (54:39), the Thundering Herd netted the equalizer from Jan-Erik Mar Leinhos on a penalty kick at the 78:07 mark, before Milo Yosef connected on what proved to be the game-winning tally for Marshall in the 82nd minute (81:01).
Each side posted 11 shots in the match, with Akron registering a 5-4 edge in shots on goal in the contest.
Austmann and redshirt junior Diogo Pacheco (Lisbon, Portugal) paced the Zips' attack recording a team-best two shots apiece. Jamil Roberts led the Thundering Herd with a game-high three shots.
Redshirt junior goalkeeper Tor Saunders (Seattle, Wash.) garnered a pair of save for Akron, while Paulo Pita made four stops for Marshall.
Sophomore Colin Biros (Jackson, Ohio) connected on the first shot on goal of the evening for either side, a strike that was corralled for a save by Pita at the 12:31 mark.
Saunders denied Vitor Mar Dais' shot on frame in the 24th minute (23:20).
A header shot for Akron by Pacheco at the 25:18 mark was again thwarted by a stop from Pita.
The Zips earned a 2-1 margin in shots on the goal in the opening stanza, while the Thundering Herd maintained a 6-5 overall edge in shots.
Akron took advantage of its scoring opportunity in the 55th minute (54:39) as Austmann bested Pita with a header to give the Zips a 1-0 lead. Garnering assists on the tally were sophomores Carlo Ritaccio (Westbury, N.Y.) and Sam Tojaga (Erie, Pa.).
Freshman Will Jackson (Hudson, Ohio) and junior David Egbo (Enugu, Nigeria) added shots on net for Akron at the 60:15 and 68:52 marks, respectively. Both scoring chances for the Zips were denied by saves from Pita.
Saunders pulled in a shot on goal from Roberts in the 75th minute (74:05) for a save to maintain Akron's 1-0 edge.
The Zips were then whistled for a foul in the box that resulted in a successful penalty kick from Mar Leinhos at the 78:07 mark to square the tilt at one.
Mar Yoseff then lofted a shot into the net in the 82nd minute (81:01) off an assist from Roberts to give the Thundering Herd a 2-1 lead, one they didn't relinquish.
Akron opens a three-match homestand with a 7 p.m. match at FirstEnergy Stadium versus Cornell on Saturday, Sept. 28.
