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.
Football Game 1 Recap: Lobos beat the Delta Devils 66-0
The Lobos opened their 2015 season with a dominating performance against Mississippi Valley State University, completely overpowering the Delta Devils in their 66-0 victory, making my 63-14 prediction seem downright pessimistic. While the outcome was expected, it was still encouraging to see how well both the offense and defense played. The offense scored eight touchdowns (all on the ground), racked up over 500 yards, and didn’t have a single turnover. The defense not only pitched a shutout, they held MVSU to 74 yards of offense, forced three turnovers, and only gave up one play for more than 15 yards. They even returned an interception for a touchdown, for good measure. All in all, it was a very satisfying win that will give the team confidence as they begin to start playing FBS teams next week.
Cross Country Runs in Ruidoso
Yesterday, the Lobo cross country teams went down to Ruidoso to participate in the Texas Tech Double Duals, and participate they did. If we simply look at the results, they would be less than encouraging. The men’s and women’s teams had identical results, finishing below Texas Tech, NMSU, and UTEP, while only doing better than Wayland Baptist (the men’s results can be found here and the women’s results can be found here). This would be a really disappointing result for the 21st ranked nationally men’s team and the 2nd ranked nationally women’s team, if the goal had been anything but simply to participate.
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.
Football Game 1 Preview: Mississippi Valley State
Here we go. After months of anticipation, hopes, and expectation, the football season finally gets going this weekend. But first:
Awesome. Looks like they’re ready too.
Cross Country’s High Expectations
2007 was a different time. The Dow Jones began to decline, a terrible Fantastic Four movie was released, and Hillary Clinton was running for president. It also happened to be the last time that the UNM Women’s Cross Country team didn’t win the Mountain West Championship. For seven straight years, the women’s team has taken home the trophy, with the men joining them for the past six years. We’ve been spoiled, to say the least.
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.