It was a great return home for the Lobo Men’s Soccer team, as they won both of their matches at the TLC Pluming & Utility Invitational, winning against Missouri State and nationally-ranked American University. With the two wins this weekend, the Lobos improve to 5-1-1 on the season and have won their last five matches. The Lobos will start Conference USA play Friday at South Carolina, who is coming off their CUSA opener with a win on the road against UAB.
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UNM vs. American Game Preview
After facing a defensive-minded Missouri State side Friday night that was looking for a 0-0 draw, the Lobos will play a team with a very different philosophy in the American University Eagles. Both teams are coming off 1-0 wins Friday and both sides have very strong starts to their seasons. With both sides winning their first match, this will effectively be the championship match of the TLC Pluming & Utility Invitational. Of course, because this was an invitational instead of a tournament, all of the matches were already in place. It’s nice it worked out that way.
Weekly Roundup (9/18/15)
This is our weekly round up which will look at what happened in Lobo Sports in the last week and look ahead to the games and events that the week ahead will have for Lobo Sports. This will not be game previews or game recaps instead it will look at awards awarded to Lobo players, the outcome of games, as well as giving you a one post location for the week ahead.
UNM vs Missouri State Game Preview
After going 2-0-0 last weekend in California, the Lobo Men’s Soccer team returns home to host the TLC Plumbing & Utility Invitational, where it will face Missouri State on Friday night at 7pm and face #21 American on Sunday at 6pm. Last Sunday’s opponent LMU rounds out the field, also playing Missouri State and American this weekend. This is a very important weekend for the Lobos, as they have a three match win streak on the line and start Conference USA play next week. If the Lobos can find wins in both matches, they could climb into the top 10 next week and could build the momentum to start strong in conference play.
Men’s Soccer California Weekend Recap
The business trip to California was a success, as the Lobos Men’s Soccer team had its most successful weekend of the season, going 2-0-0 again Cal State Northridge and nationally-ranked Loyola Marymount University. It was an important weekend to get results and build off of last week’s games against University of San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. The Lobos did just that and saw their success be rewarded by becoming nationally ranked in all three of the National Rankings. They are now currently ranked 17th in the NSCAA Coaches poll, 15th in the Top Drawer Soccer poll, and 23rd in the College Soccer News poll.
UNM at LMU Game Preview
New Mexico is coming off a 1-0 overtime win at CS Northridge, where Chris Wehan found the back of the net on a penalty kick in the 96th minute. The win was the Lobos first shutout of the season, as they got great play out of their defense, and the two teams played on even terms most of the game. The Lobos need to build off this defensive effort tonight when they face a nationally-ranked LMU team. This LMU team has started out their season the best possible way, going 5-0-0 over their first 5 matches and out-scoring their opposition 8-2. Both of those two goals were allowed on Friday in their 3-2 win at CSU Bakersfield.
UNM AT CS Northridge Game Preview
New Mexico (1-1-1) AT CS Northridge (1-2-0)
Coming off a week where they went 1-0-1 against two very good sides, the Lobo Men’s Soccer team heads to California to take on CS Northridge and Loyola Marymount University. Friday night, the Lobos will be in Northridge to take on CS Northridge in a rematch of last year’s 1-0 road victory for the Lobos, with the goal coming from, surprise, surprise, Chris Wehan. Northridge is coming off a week of traveling to Omaha, Nebraska, where they lost both of their matches, losing 2-1 against #1 Creighton and losing 4-1 against #21 Omaha.
Weekly Round-up (9/8/15)
This is our weekly round-up which will look at what happened in Lobo Sports in the last week and look ahead to the games and events that the week ahead will have for Lobo Sports.
Grange & Ashwill Memorial Recap
This weekend at the Grange & Ashwill Memorial Invitational, New Mexico Men’s Soccer played host to two nationally ranked teams in University of San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. While the results weren’t exactly what the Lobos were looking for, the Lobos got results in both games, going 1-0-1 on the weekend. That will be key later in the season for seeding in the NCAA Tournament, so the Lobos can feel like that had a good weekend. And they almost had themselves a great weekend, especially given that they were without the services of defender Yuri Dominciano, who has yet to play this year, and forward Sam Gleadle, who was out of action this weekend. Thankfully, both players should also be a go this weekend’s trip to California.
UNM Men’s Soccer vs. UC Santa Barbara Game Preview
The Lobos (0-1-1) return to action tonight, as they take on #13 UCSB (1-0-1) in the final game of the Grange & Ashwill Memorial Invitational. Friday’s action in the tournament was exciting and lead to two 2-2 draws. In their game against Denver, UCSB came back and tied the game late with a goal from Nick DePuy in the 78th minute. For the Lobos, two goals by Chris Wehan was not enough, as they gave up the game tying goal in the 82nd minute against San Diego. It will be interesting to see if those results have any lingering effects going into this match. These two teams did not face each other last season, but did play a thrilling match two years ago, when Niko Hansen scored with less than 20 seconds left to give the Lobos a 1-0 win.