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Ross LaDue
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Lasell LASELL (0-1-0)
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Winner Union UNIONM (1-0-0)
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Union UNIONM
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Lasell LASELL 0 1 1
Union UNIONM 4 2 6

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Dutchmen blaze past Lasers in season opener

Weekend Highlights

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Salvador Lopez Jr. and Jeremy Conn provided the spark to an offensive blitz as the Union College men's soccer team defeated Lasell, 6-1, to open the 2019 season on Friday night at College Park Field.
 
Summary
  • Lopez Jr. combined for two goals and three assists, while Conn provided two goals and one assist.
  • Poom Mera also had a multi-point night, scoring one goal and recording one assist.
  • Sophomore Noah Barney scored his first-collegiate goal, scoring the sixth goal of the night in the 85th minute.
  • First years Evan Farr and Stephan Akichy both recorded their first-collegiate points with assists in the contest.
  • Union dominated the play, out-shooting the Lasers 18-3 with a shots-on-goal advantage of 7-3.
 
Conn opened the scoring with two back-to-back goals in the first seven minutes of the season opener. The two goals came less than a minute apart, as Lopez Jr. assisted on both, while Poom Mera added a secondary assist on the second goal.
 
Lopez Jr. kept up the offensive barrage, scoring the team's third goal just twenty seconds after Conn's second goal. Conn returned the favor after the first two as he was credited with the assist on Lopez Jr.'s first goal of the season.
 
Mera then closed out scoring the second half, scoring his first of the year in the 34th minute, with assists coming from Lopez Jr. and Farr.
 
The Dutchmen continued the pressure to start the second half, as Lopez Jr. scored his second of the night less than two minutes into the second half.
 
Lasell eventually got on the board, scoring a lone goal in the box off the foot of Alex Melo.
 
In the waning minutes of the game, Barney gave Union back it's five-goal lead with a goal in the 85th minute.
 
Trevor Krupp started the game in net for the Dutchmen, seeing 55:18 in net before Kenyon Pelletier made his debut in net. Pelletier played 23:02 in net for Union before Troy Kohler also made his debut for the Dutchmen, finishing the remaining 11:40 in net.
 
Union returns to College Park Field tomorrow afternoon, Aug. 31, to take on Keuka at 4:30 p.m. (ET).
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