SCSU Men’s Soccer falls to Morningside in home opener

Saturday, September 11

St. Cloud, Minn.

7 p.m.

St. Cloud State

1-2-1, 0-0-0

Morningside

1-0-0, 0-0-0

Morningside

St. Cloud St.

Photo by: Kylie Macziewski

9/11/2021 10:00:00 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Men's Soccer fell 5-1 at the hands of Morningside College on Saturday evening at Husky Stadium in the program's home opener. The Huskies were unable to recover from a red card in the fourth minute, playing a man down for the final 86. A barrage of first-half goals made it 5-0 Mustangs at the half, then SCSU responded to hold Morningside scoreless in the final 45 minutes. Emmanuel Iwe scored the Huskies' lone goal in the 58th minute on a breakaway, racing through the defense and making a great move to open up an empty net.

TURNING POINT

In the fourth minute, Noah Kantorowicz was given a red card for a tackle that interfered with scoring potential. The Huskies played down a man the rest of the way, with Morningside scoring five goals in the first half.

TOP HUSKIES

• Emmanuel Iwe's goal gave him his team-leading third of the season
• Iwe also led SCSU with two shots on goal.
• Eddie Saydee and Nolan Pratumwon each assisted on Iwe's marker.
• Gage Steiner and Matthew Janke combined for 59 scoreless minutes in goal.

NOTES

• Shots on goal were 10-4 Morningside.

QUOTABLES

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

"Well, it's obviously disappointing to start our home career here in that fashion. The team will learn and grow from this. I hope we don't give up a red card in the fourth minute again. When it happened, the first minute I was angry and disappointed, and then I was happy: this was an opportunity for us to work on something, to figure out a solution. It's the nature of soccer, this will happen again to someone. We'll be up a man, we'll be down a man over the course of the season. I was happy with the first couple minutes, we created a really good chance and should have been up 1-0, then we collapsed for 16 minutes, and then we found our feet again and kept doing what we needed to do. I was really pleased with the second half, we went in at halftime and said listen, 'What's done is done.' We weren't so concerned with clawing back all five goals as opposed to winning the second half. Morningside is a really well-coached team, the NAIA has good players everywhere, it's always going to be challenging. I was, in the end, happy. A growth opportunity. Painful, but nevertheless a growth opportunity."

Postgame Presser

UP NEXT

St. Cloud State hits the road next weekend with a pair of matches against Davenport and Purdue-Northwest. The games will be live streamed on the respective school's athletics websites.

For all the latest on St. Cloud State Men's Soccer, stay tuned to SCSUHuskies.com and follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.