{"id":158199,"date":"2025-09-21T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:21:10","slug":"buzakovics-volley-gives-mens-soccer-2-1-win-over-scots-in-regionally-ranked-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158199\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzakovic&#8217;s volley gives men&#8217;s soccer 2-1 win over Scots in regionally-ranked matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Luther_College.png\" alt=\"Luther College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Luther College<\/p>\n<p>9\/23\/2025 | 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 23 (Tue) \/ 4 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\/Luther_College.png\" alt=\"Luther College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Luther College&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/luther-college\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    NORTHFIELD, Minn. \u2013 The St. Olaf College men&#8217;s soccer team extended its regular-season unbeaten streak against Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) opponents to 24 games with a 2-1 victory over Macalester College on Saturday afternoon at Rolf Mellby Field.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting of regionally-ranked teams, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/charlie-piller\/13764\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13764\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Piller<\/a> gave St. Olaf (7-1-1, 2-0-0 MIAC) an early lead, but Macalester (5-2-0, 0-1-0 MIAC) tied the game early in the second half through Ondieki Maina. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/robi-buzakovic\/13754\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13754\" target=\"_blank\">Robi Buzakovic<\/a> provided the game-winning goal for the Oles in the 63rd minute with a long-range volley to get St. Olaf to 19-0-5 in its last 24 MIAC regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>St. Olaf was ranked one spot ahead of Macalester in this week&#8217;s United Soccer Coaches Region IX Poll, with the Oles at No. 4 and the Scots at No. 5. The win also improved St. Olaf to 41-5-7 at home since the start of the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>Piller gave St. Olaf the opening goal just under 10 minutes in with a curling shot into the top corner from the top of the box for his second goal of the season. The sophomore has recorded at least a goal or an assist in five of the Oles&#8217; last six games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite both teams having scoring chances, the game remained 1-0 until Maina lifted the ball over a rushing <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jack-hobday\/13759\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13759\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hobday<\/a> in a 1-on-1 in the 54th minute to bring the Scots level at a goal apiece. The tie did not last 10 minutes, however, as Buzakovic drilled a volley from 25 yards out into the lower-left corner for his second goal of the season \u2013 the eventual game-winner \u2013 in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Hobday made a season-high seven saves in goal for St. Olaf, while Justin Ratner had four stops for Macalester. The Oles held a slender 15-13 edge in shots in the game, although the Scots owned an 8-6 advantage in shots on goal.<\/p>\n<p>St. Olaf will take a break from MIAC play for a non-conference home game against Luther College on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Luther College 9\/23\/2025 | 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-158199","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\/158199","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=158199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}