New Mexico is coming off a 1-0 overtime win at CS Northridge, where Chris Wehan found the back of the net on a penalty kick in the 96th minute. The win was the Lobos first shutout of the season, as they got great play out of their defense, and the two teams played on even terms most of the game. The Lobos need to build off this defensive effort tonight when they face a nationally-ranked LMU team. This LMU team has started out their season the best possible way, going 5-0-0 over their first 5 matches and out-scoring their opposition 8-2. Both of those two goals were allowed on Friday in their 3-2 win at CSU Bakersfield.
Author: Zach
UNM AT CS Northridge Game Preview
New Mexico (1-1-1) AT CS Northridge (1-2-0)
Coming off a week where they went 1-0-1 against two very good sides, the Lobo Men’s Soccer team heads to California to take on CS Northridge and Loyola Marymount University. Friday night, the Lobos will be in Northridge to take on CS Northridge in a rematch of last year’s 1-0 road victory for the Lobos, with the goal coming from, surprise, surprise, Chris Wehan. Northridge is coming off a week of traveling to Omaha, Nebraska, where they lost both of their matches, losing 2-1 against #1 Creighton and losing 4-1 against #21 Omaha.
Some Thoughts on Basketball Recruiting
The Recruiting Period has started for NCAA Men’s Basketball, which means coaches are able to have in-home visits and school visits for potential recruits. Recruiting can be a complicated time for coaches, players, and those that follow recruiting. While we here at Lobo Lane won’t focus on recruiting until a player is actually signed, we do still have some general thoughts about the process. So here are few things we (sometimes unsuccessfully) keep in mind while following basketball recruiting.
Weekly Round-up (9/8/15)
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.
Grange & Ashwill Memorial Recap
This weekend at the Grange & Ashwill Memorial Invitational, New Mexico Men’s Soccer played host to two nationally ranked teams in University of San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. While the results weren’t exactly what the Lobos were looking for, the Lobos got results in both games, going 1-0-1 on the weekend. That will be key later in the season for seeding in the NCAA Tournament, so the Lobos can feel like that had a good weekend. And they almost had themselves a great weekend, especially given that they were without the services of defender Yuri Dominciano, who has yet to play this year, and forward Sam Gleadle, who was out of action this weekend. Thankfully, both players should also be a go this weekend’s trip to California.
UNM Men’s Soccer vs. UC Santa Barbara Game Preview
The Lobos (0-1-1) return to action tonight, as they take on #13 UCSB (1-0-1) in the final game of the Grange & Ashwill Memorial Invitational. Friday’s action in the tournament was exciting and lead to two 2-2 draws. In their game against Denver, UCSB came back and tied the game late with a goal from Nick DePuy in the 78th minute. For the Lobos, two goals by Chris Wehan was not enough, as they gave up the game tying goal in the 82nd minute against San Diego. It will be interesting to see if those results have any lingering effects going into this match. These two teams did not face each other last season, but did play a thrilling match two years ago, when Niko Hansen scored with less than 20 seconds left to give the Lobos a 1-0 win.
UNM vs. San Diego Game Preview
UNM (0-1-0) vs. San Diego (2-0-0) Men’s Soccer
The Lobos return home for their home opener, after a tough 1-0 loss on the road against #1 Ranked UCLA, to host the Grange & Ashwill Memorial Invitational, where the team will play host to #13 UC Santa Barbara and #18 USD. The first game for the Lobos this weekend will be tonight against #18 USD at the UNM Soccer Complex. This has the potential to be a huge weekend for the Lobos. If they can win both games it will be more than enough to get them back into the top 25 and give them two great wins this early in the season.
Weekly Round-Up
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 for the next week. These posts will not be full game previews or recaps, but instead will look at awards awarded to Lobo players, the outcome of games, and give you a one-post location for the week ahead.
It’s UCLA: Game Preview
UNM (0-0) at UCLA (0-0) Men’s Soccer
After 3 Preseason games where the Lobos went 2-0-1, they will start the regular season on the road against UCLA, last year’s National Runner-up. This is a rematch of last year’s regular season game where UCLA came into Albuquerque and won 2-1, even though the Lobos controlled the game as they out shot UCLA 18 to 3 and had 8 corners to the Bruin’s 2. The Lobos are going to try to repay the favor when they go into Los Angeles tonight for a game they aren’t expected to win which should benefit the Lobos by allowing them to play loose. New Mexico must attack and put pressure on UCLA and give themselves opportunities to have more chances than UCLA. The young Lobos must grow up fast and it starts tonight.
The Power of We
2015 Men’s Soccer Season Preview
2014 was a disappointment for the men’s soccer team as they struggled down the stretch and didn’t make the NCAA tournament a year after making the College Cup. Last year wasn’t a result of not being talented but instead finding the bad end of luck and not being able to find the back of the net when they controlled the play. The Lobos finished the 2014 season 11-6-1 and 4-4 in conference as well as losing the opening game of the conference tournament. The Lobos outscored their opponents 32 to 16 but they gave up 8 goals in the last four games and lost all four.