Huskies Drop Home Opener to Truman State

Sunday, September 10

St. Cloud, Minn.

11:00 A.M. CT

St. Cloud State

0-3-1, 0-0-0

Truman State

1-1-0, 0-0-0

Truman St.

St. Cloud St.

9/10/2023 6:30:00 PM | Men's Soccer

Box Score

Kroeten scores penalty in 2-1 loss

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The St. Cloud State Men's Soccer team (0-3-1, 0-0-0 GLIAC) dropped its first home match of the season on Sunday afternoon against Truman State, 2-1.

Truman State (1-1-0, 0-0-0 GLVC) scored its opening goal in the 38th minute. Just three minutes later, Mika Folstad (St. Paul, Minn.) got fouled in the penalty box and Zinedine Kroeten (St Louis Park, Minn.) converted from the spot to knot the game at one apiece. Early in the second half, the Bulldogs were able to find the back of the net for the second time of the game, scoring their game-winning goal in the 58th minute.

Both teams recorded 16 shots, but Truman State held the advantage over the Huskies, putting nine of their shots on goal. The Bulldogs also held the advantage, taking five more corner kicks than St. Cloud State.

TOP HUSKIES

Kroeten scored the Huskies lone goal, put all three of his shots on goal and logged 85 minutes.
Folstad drew the foul in the penalty box that led to the Huskies goal.

QUOTEABLES – St. Cloud State head coach Sean Holmes

"I'm disappointed in the result, but we saw a huge improvement from the last couple of games - today is the first time I thought we had sustained effort and quality for 90 minutes."

"This is really what the transition from high school and club soccer to college soccer is - you're playing guys now that if you make mistakes, or you make clusters of mistakes, you'll get punished for it, where as you might not at lower levels, so I thought that was a good learning experience for our guys."

On nonconference schedule... "Those four games are about improving our team and making us better and I think we accomplished that - we went on the road for three of the four, we played at altitude, we played nationally ranked opponents – we played some tough games, so I thought there was great improvement...

On players who stood out... "Yuken Harmon provided a real spark off the bench and Mika Folstad had some moments in the attack and won the penalty by being positive and courageous in the box, which was terrific...lots of other guys did a good job and I think we're moving in the right direction."

On Philip Caputo's impact... "He's the most dynamic attacking player we have - he makes us better."

NOTABLES

St. Cloud State is now 0-1-1 all-time against Truman State.
Kroeten scored his fourth career goal and his first since the 2021 season. It was also his first career penalty attempt and make.
Nolan Pratumwon (Mahtomedi, Minn.), Vukota Mastilovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Cullen McSweeney (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Dylan De Baldo (Vancouver, Wash.) played the full 90 minutes.
Philip Caputo (Eagan, Minn.) made his season debut as a starter.
Rhys Ward (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Charlie Pritchard (Ankeny, Iowa) made their first starts of the season.
Two players set a season individual game-high - Noah Kantorowicz (Minneapolis, Minn.) for shots (four) and De Baldo for saves made (seven) and Kroeten tied the season individual game-high for shots on goal (three).
The team set a season-high in shots (16) and tied their season-highs for shots on goal (six) and saves made (seven).

UP NEXT
The Huskies play their first Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC) game on Friday, September 15 when they host Saginaw Valley State. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. CT. Links to the livestream (note – a paid subscription is required) and live stats for Friday's match can be found on the SCSU Men's Soccer schedule page.

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