Author: Zach

UNM Women’s Soccer AT Boise State Preview

by Zach

New Mexico (3-5-0, 1-0-0) AT Boise State (3-5-3, 1-0-0)

Both the Lobos and Broncos are coming off Conference opening wins on Friday, with the Lobos beating Utah State 1-0 on the road, and the Broncos beating SDSU at home 2-1. This will be an interesting game to see how it plays out the two sides have one common opponent in Idaho State with two very different results, the Lobos won their match against Idaho State 4-1, while the Broncos had a 1-1 draw in their match. It is still early in Mountain West play but if the Lobos can find another great result today against the Broncos it sets them up well for a great conference season.

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UNM Men’s Soccer vs. South Carolina Preview

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The New Mexico Men’s Soccer team will start their Conference USA season tonight, when they go on the road to play South Carolina. The Lobos are on a nice streak right now, winning their last five matches against a good slate of opponents. The Lobos are playing great soccer going into C-USA play and will try to make up for last season’s collapse that saw them finish their conference season at 4-4-0. This is a very important game for the Lobos conference title chances because not many teams will get a result at South Carolina, so a win here could give them a little advantage early. Conference USA has nine teams, so each team plays four home and four road matches. Due to the unbalanced schedule, you have to win your home matches and get results on the road if you want to have a good chance of winning the league. For the Lobos, the quest for a league championship starts tonight.

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UNM Women’s Soccer vs. Utah State Preview

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The Lobos Women’s soccer team will kick off their Mountain West Conference schedule this weekend, as they hit the road to face Utah State on Friday and Boise State on Sunday. While the Lobos record doesn’t look great right now, they played well in all but one of the games, including three 1-0 losses. The Lobos look to start the conference season off well today when they face a very solid Utah State team Friday afternoon. Utah State won the match last year 2-0 in Albuquerque, so the Lobos are certainly looking for a better result. The Lobos are also looking to continue the success on the road in conference play from last year, where they didn’t lose a single road conference game, going 4-0-1.

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Weekly Roundup (9/23/15)

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This is our weekly round up which will look at what happened in Lobo Sports in the last week and look ahead to the games and events that the week ahead will have for Lobo Sports. This will not be game previews or game recaps instead it will look at awards awarded to Lobo players, the outcome of games, as well as giving you a one-post location for the week ahead.

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Men’s Soccer TLC Invitational Recap

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It was a great return home for the Lobo Men’s Soccer team, as they won both of their matches at the TLC Pluming & Utility Invitational, winning against Missouri State and nationally-ranked American University. With the two wins this weekend, the Lobos improve to 5-1-1 on the season and have won their last five matches. The Lobos will start Conference USA play Friday at South Carolina, who is coming off their CUSA opener with a win on the road against UAB.

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UNM vs. American Game Preview

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After facing a defensive-minded Missouri State side Friday night that was looking for a 0-0 draw, the Lobos will play a team with a very different philosophy in the American University Eagles. Both teams are coming off 1-0 wins Friday and both sides have very strong starts to their seasons. With both sides winning their first match, this will effectively be the championship match of the TLC Pluming & Utility Invitational. Of course, because this was an invitational instead of a tournament, all of the matches were already in place. It’s nice it worked out that way.

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Weekly Roundup (9/18/15)

by Zach

This is our weekly round up which will look at what happened in Lobo Sports in the last week and look ahead to the games and events that the week ahead will have for Lobo Sports. This will not be game previews or game recaps instead it will look at awards awarded to Lobo players, the outcome of games, as well as giving you a one post location for the week ahead.

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UNM vs Missouri State Game Preview

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After going 2-0-0 last weekend in California, the Lobo Men’s Soccer team returns home to host the TLC Plumbing & Utility Invitational, where it will face Missouri State on Friday night at 7pm and face #21 American on Sunday at 6pm. Last Sunday’s opponent LMU rounds out the field, also playing Missouri State and American this weekend. This is a very important weekend for the Lobos, as they have a three match win streak on the line and start Conference USA play next week. If the Lobos can find wins in both matches, they could climb into the top 10 next week and could build the momentum to start strong in conference play.

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SDSU Possible Rules Violations: Why it is bad for Lobo basketball

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It was announced on Tuesday September 15th by Gary Parrish of CBS Sports that the NCAA has launched an investigation on the San Diego State University Men’s Basketball program. At this point, Parrish reports that the investigation hasn’t become a formal investigation, which means that NCAA isn’t working with SDSU right now with the investigation, but are instead doing the ground work for a potential investigation. I want to make it clear that this post isn’t trying to point fingers at SDSU, but is instead looking at how this will potentially affect and hurt the Lobos men’s basketball program and the other Mountain West basketball programs. We don’t know what sort of timeframe will be involved with this investigation, the penalties (if there are any), and how long those possible penalties will last. This is huge news for Mountain West basketball fans and it shouldn’t be taken lightly, as it isn’t good for the conference as a whole.

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Men’s Soccer California Weekend Recap

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The business trip to California was a success, as the Lobos Men’s Soccer team had its most successful weekend of the season, going 2-0-0 again Cal State Northridge and nationally-ranked Loyola Marymount University. It was an important weekend to get results and build off of last week’s games against University of San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. The Lobos did just that and saw their success be rewarded by becoming nationally ranked in all three of the National Rankings. They are now currently ranked 17th in the NSCAA Coaches poll, 15th in the Top Drawer Soccer poll, and 23rd in the College Soccer News poll.

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