St. Cloud State closes inaugural season with 2-1 loss at Upper Iowa

Thursday, November 4

Fayette, Iowa

2 p.m.

St. Cloud State

4-13-1, 3-11-0

Upper Iowa

10-6-1, 7-6-1

St. Cloud St.

Upper Iowa

Photo by: Howard Thompson

St. Cloud State closes inaugural season with 2-1 loss at Upper Iowa

11/4/2021 4:25:00 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Men's Soccer dropped the final contest of their inaugural season by a 2-1 decision on Thursday afternoon at Upper Iowa. The Huskies' lone goal came courtesy of Riley Wood finishing a Nolan Pratumwon centering feed with the left foot in the 80th minute, trimming the deficit to one. The Peacocks outshot SCSU 6-2, with keeper Matthew Janke making four saves. SCSU closes their first season in program history with a 4-13-1 record, 3-11-0 in GLIAC play.

TURNING POINT

After scoring the game's first goal just inside the 70th minute, Upper Iowa struck again within minutes on a defensive breakdown leading to an open goal.

TOP HUSKIES

• Riley Wood scored the Huskies' lone goal.
• Nolan Pratumwon put a shot on goal and added an assist.

NOTES

• Vukota Mastilovic, Cullen McSweeney, Charlie Pritchard, Jakob Mohrlok and Andres Garcia all played the full 90 minutes.

QUOTABLES

St. Cloud State Men's Soccer Head Coach Sean Holmes

"I was really pleased with our performance today. A great improvement over our first result over Upper Iowa. (5-2 L) Obviously the guys wanted to finish the season on a high note since we're not playing again in the playoffs. We held our own in the first 70 minutes and then ran out of gas for a few minutes before we composed ourselves. What I was most proud of was that we started eight players who were essentially in their first year of college soccer and we started and played a lot of Minnesotans, which were two of our goals. We knew our youth would make the season challenging, but I though the experience that the guys gained was invaluable. I think we have learned that the GLIAC, which I hope will send multiple teams to the NCAA DII Tournament, is competitive from top to bottom in that the margin of error is small. A solid performance from Matthew Janke in goal today, a very composed performance from our center backs Vukota Mastilovic and Jakob Mohrlok. As always, Cullen McSweeney was industrious in the midfield. I thought Philip Caputo and Nolan Pratumwon showed glimmers of their creativity and attacking skills. I thought Andres Garcia again put in lots of intelligent work up front. I look forward to regrouping, having guys focus on their schoolwork for the next few weeks before exams and then getting ready for 2022."