Mount Union gets its first win of the year as they shut out Kenyon 1-0 on Sunday afternoon. Mount Union (1-2) scored the only goal of the game late in the first half after senior Carolyn Balzano set up freshman Nicole Lanese for her first career goal. Kenyon (0-3) outshot the Purple Raiders 29-6 but could not find the back of the net as they dropped their third straight match. Sophomore goalie Paige Freel collected eight saves and earned her first career shutout. Mount Union next travels
Mount Union’s women’s soccer team traveled to Denison and fell to the Big Red 4-0. Denison (2-0) got on the board early as Maggie Armstrong headed in a goal off of a corner kick within the first 90 seconds of play to put Denison on top 1-0. Denison went on to add two more goals before the half off of the foot of Meg Wozniak as she scored her first goal at the 7:27 minute mark and then added another at the
Mount Union’s women’s soccer team falls in their season opener 3-0 to Wooster College. The Fighting Scots (1-0) struck first at the 13:46 mark on a goal by Harper Jones to give Wooster an early 1-0 lead. The Purple Raiders had chances in the first half to put a goal on the board but couldn’t capitalize on some early opportunities as they went into the locker room down 1-0. Wooster came out in the second half and scored two goals separated by just
Mount Union’s men’s soccer team dropped its season opener 5-0 to Case Western Reserve Tuesday at Mount Union Stadium. The Spartans (1-0) opened up the game early on a goal by Michael Balog at the 16:34 mark to give them the early 1-0 lead. Case Western Reserve tacked on another goal at the 22:36 mark on the foot of Chris Cvecko and added one more before halftime on a free kick by Paul Darmstadter in the 40th minute to give the Spartans
A hat trick by Josue Henriquez propelled No. 24 Old Dominion (1-1) to a 4-1 men’s soccer victory past Akron (1-1) on Sunday, Aug. 30. “With this schedule we knew it would be difficult,” Akron head coach Jared Embick commented. “We have to be ready to show up and play hard everyday. Today, Old Dominion played harder and with more energy and were the better team. We never really got our game going.” The Monarchs broke onto the scoreboard first when Henriquez
A golden goal by sophomore Anthony Macchione (Camas, Wash.) in the 108th minute (107:09) lifted the 24th-ranked University of Akron men’s soccer team to a 3-2 season-opening victory past VCU (0-1) on Friday, Aug. 28. The game-winning tally was set up by junior Adam Najem (Clifton, N.J.), who served a ball into the box which Macchione struck with his head and sent past Rams’ goalkeeper Garrett Cyprus. “I’m happy with the result on the road as VCU is a tough place to
Photo Credit: Richard Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com Sparked by a three-goal evening from Adam Najem, the Akron men’s soccer team registered a 5-1 exhibition victory past Sigma FC on Saturday, April 18, at FirstEnergy Stadium – Cub Cadet Field. Sigma FC, a Canadian soccer academy based in Toronto, Ontario, which competes in Leauge1 Ontario, scored the game’s first goal to take an early 1-0 lead on what proved to be its only shot on goal of the half at the 7:57 mark. Less than four
The University of Akron men’s soccer team continued their busy spring season with a pair of matches Saturday at FirstEnergy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field. The first ended with a 3-0 win for the Zips, but the second saw UA fall to local side Notre Dame College 5-0. Photo Credit: Richard Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com A trio of second-half goals lifted UA to the decisive victory over the Bulldogs. “In the first half of the game we didn’t play well and could have been down a couple of
Akron men’s soccer was denied in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship as Ohio State advanced on penalty kicks, 13-12, in 15 rounds, in what will go down in the record books as a 1-1 double-overtime tie on Thursday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Zips concluded the 2014 season at 13-6-2, while the Buckeyes (9-7-5) advanced to second round action at top-seeded Notre Dame. “It is difficult to take, we had chances to put them away and