ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's men's soccer team picked up its first shutout of the 2022 season as well as it first win in Great Lakes Valley Conference play Friday night as the Miners made a
Jimmy Sanchez (St. Charles, MO/Francis Howell Central) first half goal hold up in 1-0 victory over Southwest Baptist at Allgood-Bailey Stadium.
Sanchez scored off a nifty sequence of passes from
Jason Jorgensen (Florence, Italy/Liceo Scientifico Santa Maria) and
Mustafa Hasan (St. Louis, MO/Lindbergh) in the 16
th minute of play, as his shot cleared the goal line after it hit off the crossbar.
From there, the Miners (2-4-3, 1-2-3 GLVC) put the game in the hands of their defense and goalkeeper
Davis Joseph (Andover, KS/Andover Central), who turned away the only SBU (0-8-1, 0-5 GLVC) shot that reached him in the game, which came in the 66
th minute off the foot of Elias El Bouali.
The Miners outshot the Bearcats 12-7 overall in the game as they recorded their first shutout since beating Illinois Springfield 2-0 in their next-to-last game of last season. The win also snapped S&T's seven-game winless streak.
Missouri S&T will be back on the pitch Sunday when it hosts Drury in a 2:30 p.m. game at the S&T Soccer Field.
