{"id":130128,"date":"2025-09-09T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130128\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:53:09","slug":"mens-soccer-comeback-falls-short-in-east-lansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130128\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer Comeback Falls Short in East Lansing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PFW_logo.png\" alt=\"Purdue Fort Wayne\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Purdue Fort Wayne<\/p>\n<p>9\/13\/2025 | 4 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 13 (Sat) \/ 4 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PFW_logo.png\" alt=\"Purdue Fort Wayne\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Purdue Fort Wayne&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/purdue-fort-wayne\/89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2014 The Golden Grizzlies fell 2-3 in another near-comeback effort to Michigan State on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The first half began with Michigan State. applying early pressure, registering multiple shots in the opening minutes. Despite a strong defensive effort from <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/cole-thompson\/11306\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11306\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Thompson<\/a>, Oakland found themselves trailing after a goal by Peter Soudan in the 18th minute, followed by additional goals from Luke Spadafora and Miles Merritt. Oakland responded in the 31st minute with a goal by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/evan-combs\/11291\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11291\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Combs<\/a>, from an assist by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/marco-mazzei\/10090\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10090\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Mazzei<\/a>, narrowing the deficit to 3-1 as the teams headed into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The second half began with Oakland looking to close the gap, and they accomplished just that when <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/tim-allos\/11311\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11311\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Allos<\/a> scored in the 66th minute, assisted by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jace-foster\/10084\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10084\" target=\"_blank\">Jace Foster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/noah-roka\/10129\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10129\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Roka<\/a>, bringing the score to 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong defensive effort, including a save from <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/cole-thompson\/11306\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11306\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Thompson<\/a> at the 60th minute, and a series of attempts on goal by Christopher Jean L\u00e9ger and <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jace-foster\/10084\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10084\" target=\"_blank\">Jace Foster<\/a>, Oakland was unable to find the equalizer. The Spartans held their lead, despite pressure from Oakland, leaving the final score at 3-2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/evan-combs\/11291\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11291\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Combs<\/a> earned his first career goal with his score. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/tim-allos\/11311\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11311\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Allos<\/a> also found the back of the net for goal number two of the season. Foster led all Golden Grizzlies with three shots, all of them registering on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, Oakland put more shots on goal (7) than the Spartans (6), on nine shots total taken.<\/p>\n<p>The next challenge for Oakland takes them on the road to Fort Wayne, Ind., where they will face Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday. The match kicks off at 4 p.m. as Oakland looks to secure their first win of the season in their first conference match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Purdue Fort Wayne 9\/13\/2025 | 4 PM &#13; Sep. 13 (Sat) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-130128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}