ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T Men's Soccer took down Upper Iowa 2-0 on Sunday afternoon.
The game remained scoreless for a majority of the first half until the very end. Neither team had a shot on goal until the 45
th minute. However, in the first 20 minutes, the Miners put up four shots, two
Mustafa Hasan (St. Louis, MO/Lindbergh) and one each from both
Joao Vieira (Punta del Este, Uruguay/International College) and
Alexander Burum (Oslo, Norway/Valle Hovin Vgs). With 14 seconds left in the first half, Burum gave S&T their first goal of the match to go up 1-0.
In the second half, goalkeeper
Cavitt Bruhn (Plano, TX/Plano) made a save in the 54
th minute to keep the Miners up 1-0.
Nathan Weyrauch (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit), who had come on in the 61
st minute, was saved by Diogo Cardoso in the 65
th minute. S&T put the match away in the 87
th minute as
Luke Giesing (St. Louis, MO/Lindbergh) picked up his second goal of the season. The Miners won the match 2-0 over the Peacocks to end their home weekend 1-0-1.
Missouri S&T recorded 16 total shots with four shots on goal. Burum, Weyrauch, Giesing and
Jacob Lee (Atlanta, GA/Dunwoody) all had one shot on goal. Hasan tallied five total shots in the match and Burum picked up three.
Brendan Owens (St. Louis, MO/Fort Zumwalt South) and Giesing both had two.
With the win, the Miners moved to 7-4-3 and 4-3-3 in the GLVC with four regular season games remaining. S&T remains in sixth place in the conference, one point behind Illinois Springfield and one point ahead of Quincy in sixth. To host a GLVC postseason match, a team must end in the top four. The Miners are four points out of the top four in the Maryville Saints in fourth, who S&T holds a tiebreaker over. UIS in fifth has three GLVC matches left as the Miners have four.
What's Next
S&T will go on their final regular season road trip of 2024 at William Jewell on Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and at Truman State on Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. They will return home on Nov. 1 and 3 to face Southwest Baptist and Rockhurst. The GLVC tournament begins on Nov. 10.
