MSOC Moves Past Marist With A Victory, 6-1

MILWAUKEE - The Marquette University men's soccer team (2-0-0, 0-0-0 BIG EAST) closed out its opening weekend with a 6-1 win over Marist (0-2-0, 0-0-0 MAAC) Sunday afternoon at Valley Fields.

Marquette got hot quickly, scoring in the seventh minute after freshman defender Jack Wandschneider knocked one in off a corner kick from Ryan Amond to put the Golden Eagles up. The goal was Wandschneider's first of his career.

The Golden Eagles kept their momentum to score again in the 27^th minute, this time coming from senior midfielder Justin Milovanov. Both senior forward Abdoul Karim Pare and junior midfielder Mitar Mitrovic notched an assist.

"Happy with this win, coming off of Thursday we didn't want to let our guards down coming into this game against a quality opponent in Marist," head coach David Korn said. "I thought we did a great job being unselfish and playing as team. The guys really leaned on each other playing in the heat and responding after we gave up a goal."

Seven minutes after emerging from the locker room, Mitrovic knocked in an unassisted goal to put the Golden Eagles up by three over the Red Foxes.

Marist scored their lone goal of the match during a penalty shot after a handball call in the box against Marquette in the 55^th minute, but the Golden Eagles were able to respond as junior midfielder Mitchell Dryden knocked in his second goal of the season.

Junior forward Lucas Nesthus notched his first goal of the season in the 85^th minute, knocking in an assist from both Dryden and freshman midfielder Clayton Hamler.

Marquette's final goal of the match came in the 90^th minute. Dryden knocked in his second of the game to put the exclamation mark on the game.

NOTES

First meeting between Marquette and Marist in program history
Freshman Jack Wandschneider recorded his first career goal
Sophomore Ryan Amond recorded his first assist of the season
Junior defender Diegoarmando Alvarado made his season debut
Freshman defender Leo Rodriguez made his Golden Eagle debut
Two players notched one goal and one assist, Dryden and Mitrovic
Jonathan Monreal-Herrera made his Golden Eagle debut
Hamler notched his first career assist
Dryden had two goals and one assist, notching his first brace of the season

UP NEXT

The Golden Eagles head to New Haven, Connecticut to take on Yale on Friday, August 30 at 5 PM CT.

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