Temple Athletics

Temple, UAB Earn Friday American Wins

10.14.22

Wednesday, Oct. 12
Stetson 3, South Florida 2 – Box Score
 
Friday, October 14
Temple 1, FAU 0 – Box Score
UAB 3, UCF 1 – Box Score
 
Recaps
Stetson 3, South Florida 2 – Box Score
TAMPA, Fla. – The University of South Florida men's soccer team closed out its 2022 nonconference schedule on Wednesday night with a tough 3-2 loss to instate foe Stetson at Corbett Stadium. The Bulls fall to 3-4-3 overall on the year while the Hatters improve to 4-2-5.
 
Despite the setback, the Green and Gold are unbeaten in five of their last six matches, and in their last five American Athletic Conference outings.
 
South Florida dominated the majority of the match outshooting Stetson, 18-9, including a 12-3 margin in the first half and a 5-2 shots-on-goal advantage during the first 45 minutes of play. 
 
Oscar Resano scored two goals during the contest, his first two of the season, in the 10' and 24'. That was all the Bulls could get by Stetson goalkeeper Nicolo Radaelli, despite several opportunities during the night. One chance included Resano nearly getting a hat trick by putting a shot that was slightly deflected off the left post in the 74'. 
 
Stetson closed out the final 11 minutes with goals in the 79' and 90' to secure the victory.
 
Resano finished the night with a match-high five shots, including two coming on frame while Marcus Victorio had three shots.
 
Temple 1, FAU 0 – Box Score
BOCA RATON, Fla. - The Temple men's soccer team (3-7-2, 1-5-0 AAC) took down the FAU Owls (3-6-3, 2-2-2, AAC) 1-0 Friday night in Boca Raton, Florida. Sean Karani scored the game-winning goal for the Cherry and White in the 70th minute, while goalkeeper Eoin Gawronski made six saves for the clean sheet.
 
The first half was exceptionally slow. In the 28th minute, freshman George Medill headed the first shot on goal of the match off a corner. It was turned away by the FAU keeper.
 
Eoin Gawronski saved the first two shots on target by Florida Atlantic in the 41st and 42nd minutes.
 
Gawronski made another stop to open the second frame, followed by a dart by Sawyer Koza saved by FAU.
 
In the 62nd minute, Temple picked up the first of seven yellow cards pulled on both teams combined in the second half.
 
The Owls broke through in the 70th minute. After a strong chance by Mike Eijgendaal was saved by FAU, Temple pressed hard and was rewarded with a turnover forced by Rocco Haufglockner. The freshman quickly found Eijgendaal who in turn found Karani at the top of the box. The forward was sandwiched between two defenders but was able to get a shot off clean and perfectly placed the ball on the bottom left corner to beat the goalkeeper and secure the lead.
 
FAU did not seriously threaten for the remainder of the match. Florida Atlantic fired a shot on target in the 79th minute that was easily corralled by Gawronski. Temple took the win by a score of 1-0.
 
UAB 3, UCF 1 – Box Score
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The UAB Blazers won their first American Athletic Conference match on Friday night, defeating UCF 3-1 at PNC Field. UAB improves to 3-7-2 overall and 1-3-2 in The American, while UCF falls to 5-5 overall and 2-4 in The American.
 
Their was no scoring in the first half, but the goals started coming fast in the second half.
 
UAB scored two goals in the first twenty minutes to start the second half as Nathaniel St. Louis scored in the 56th minute and Curtis DeLeon scored in the 63rd minute.
 
UCF scored their first goal in the 74th minute to cut the deficit to one, but UAB would score again in the 79 minute to put the match out of reach.