{"id":149821,"date":"2025-09-17T06:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149821\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:40:18","slug":"bears-and-billikens-battle-to-1-1-stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149821\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears and Billikens Battle to 1-1 Stalemate"},"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\/FIU-Logo Updated.png\" alt=\"FIU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at FIU<\/p>\n<p>9\/21\/2025 | 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 21 (Sun) \/ 5:00 p.m.&#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\/FIU-Logo Updated.png\" alt=\"FIU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0FIU&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ST. LOUIS, MO\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Missouri State men&#8217;s soccer team (3-1-2) tied against No. 7 Saint Louis (3-1-3) on Tuesday night, with a 1-1 scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>MSU\u00a0junior <a href=\"https:\/\/missouristatebears.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/daniele-aracri\/8812\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8812\" target=\"_blank\">Daniele Aracri<\/a> scored his first goal as a Bear in the 57th minute to equalize\u00a0things, and Missouri State&#8217;s defense held up the rest of the way to preserve the tie.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears and the Billikens were\u00a0neck-and-neck\u00a0in a tenacious first half, with both teams only getting two shots in.\u00a0Bears\u00a0goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/missouristatebears.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/will-lowry\/8545\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8545\" target=\"_blank\">Will Lowry<\/a> made a pivotal save\u00a0in the 20th minute\u00a0to keep the score at 0-0 heading into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams amped up the aggression in the second half. In the 53rd minute,\u00a0Saint Louis\u00a0capitalized on its first scoring\u00a0opportunity and scored to take the lead. But just four minutes later, Aracri set himself up to slam the ball into the bottom left of the net with his right foot to tie the score at 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, MSU tallied five shots with three on goal and Saint Louis recorded six shots with three on goal. The Billikens tallied nine corner kicks\u00a0to one for the Bears.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a matchup between two of the top programs in college soccer, where for much of the game it was deadlocked. They scored on a restart, and we responded very well and it was great to see <a href=\"https:\/\/missouristatebears.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/daniele-aracri\/8812\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8812\" target=\"_blank\">Daniele Aracri<\/a> get his first goal as a Bear. This was a good team performance, and we will rest up and get on the road to for a top American Conference matchup with FIU. We have played a great schedule and the guys continue to deliver in tough games,&#8221; exclaimed head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/missouristatebears.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/michael-seabolt\/1222\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1222\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Seabolt<\/a> after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri State will resume American Conference play Sunday when they travel to Miami to face FIU at 5:00 p.m. (Central).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#GoBears<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#WeAreMoState<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at FIU 9\/21\/2025 | 5:00 p.m. &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Sep. 21 (Sun)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-149821","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\/149821","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=149821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}