In her final year, Lobo women’s soccer forward Jen Williams has high but very reachable expectations. Williams hopes to lead her team to a second Mountain West Conference championship and an NCAA tournament bid for the second straight year. “Our goals for this season are to make it to the NCAA tournament again and to go as far as we can,” she said.
Dominating in every stat does not always lead to victory. The UNM women’s soccer team tied Saint Mary’s 1-1 in overtime on Friday after controlling much of the game and out-shooting the Gaels 26-16 in its regular season opener.
The game was all but over after 15 minutes. It took the UNM men’s soccer team just a quarter of an hour to score all three goals in their 3-1 victory over Tulsa on Saturday night.
The UNM men’s soccer team is doing its own version of spring training. The Lobos will play two exhibition games Sunday against Fort Lewis at 10 a.m.
After a surprising NCAA tournament invitation, the UNM men’s soccer team’s celebration quickly turned horrific.
Sure, the UNM women’s soccer team is well-aware of the significance of Saturday’s game, but there’s no sense in stressing about it. The Lobos, currently 11-1-4, tied Wyoming 1-1 tie Sunday in Laramie, Wyo., extending their undefeated streak to nine games.
Everybody wanted to be like Mike on Friday. With 24 seconds left in the first overtime, defender Michael Reed dribbled past three defenders on the left wing and found midfielder Michael Green in the box for the go-ahead goal, giving the Lobos a 2-1 victory over UNLV at the UNM Soccer Complex. “I got the ball, and I just went at them,” Reed said.
If the UNM men’s soccer team took one small step with its nonconference schedule this season, its making one giant leap to reclaim what the Lobos rightfully owned for four years: the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title. The MPSF restructured the league into two four-team divisions, but that doesn’t matter to the Lobos.
Lobo goalkeeper Justin Holmes was more worried about the sun than Harvard’s offensive attack Sunday. For nearly 110 minutes, Holmes shut out the Crimson at the UNM soccer complex on Sunday.
The UNM men’s soccer team outplayed — but didn’t outscore — another top-10 opponent at the UNM Soccer Complex on Sunday.
Yet another weekend of rigid competition stands before the UNM men’s soccer team. The Lobos welcome Buffalo on Friday and then face their fifth-ranked opponent this season when they play No.
It was better late than never for the visiting Portland Pilots on Sunday at the UNM Soccer Complex. Portland, which defeated the UNM men’s soccer team in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season, lifted themselves past the Lobos 2-1 again after a late goal by defender Ryan Kawulok. The Pilots scored in the 89th minute with only their third shot on the goal. “It’s a game where you need to take care of your chances.
This weekend is a boom or bust. The UNM men’s soccer team welcomed two more top-25 teams to the UNM Soccer Complex this weekend.
For the UNM men’s soccer team, it was a gaffe that cost the Lobos back-to-back wins over two top-ranked teams last week. Forward Devon Sandoval scored eight minutes into Saturday’s game against No.
It was a great way to start the rivalry for the UNM women’s soccer team. The Lobos continue to dominate the early part of their 2010 season with a 1-0 victory over in-state rival New Mexico State on Friday at the UNM Soccer Complex. Since the Aggies have only fielded a women’s soccer team for the last two years, UNM head coach Kit Vela said she was disappointed in the lack of Lobo offense. “It was frustrating not to score more,” she said.
Even with 17 shots, the UNM men’s soccer team didn’t make San Francisco’s goalkeeper Brendan Roslund break much of a sweat. That’s because the Lobos shot only twice on goal.
There is no doubt about who is the trigger man for the UNM men’s soccer team: Justin Davis. And he’s not gun-shy.The senior forward is coming into his final season with a chance to make it into the Lobo record books.
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