{"id":174492,"date":"2025-09-28T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:29:07","slug":"big-crowd-sees-cougars-fall-in-homecoming-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174492\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Crowd Sees Cougars Fall in Homecoming Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. \u2013 A Homecoming crowd of nearly 2,400 was on hand Saturday as SIUE men&#8217;s soccer fell to Lindenwood 2-0 at in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both teams at Korte Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Cougars dropped to 0-1 in the OVC and 1-7-0 overall. Lindenwood remained unbeaten at 8-0-1 overall and 1-0 in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Following a scoreless first half, the Cougars were dealt a blow in the 56th minute when <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/archie-mcdonnell\/12885\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12885\" target=\"_blank\">Archie McDonnell<\/a> was cautioned for a second time in the game, resulting in a red card and ejection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">SIUE held its ground admirably for more than 20 minutes, even creating several scoring chances, without finding the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lindenwood broke out on top in the 77th minute when Alander Soares scored at the back post after a long pass in from George Chandler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ethan Blake found Gavin Czizar with 1:15 left in the game to double the Lions&#8217; lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Shots in the game were even at 11 apiece. Lindenwood put five shots on goal compared to three from SIUE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Cougars continue OVC play Thursday when they travel to Western Illinois for a 3:30 p.m. contest with the Leathernecks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. \u2013 A Homecoming crowd of nearly 2,400 was on hand Saturday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-174492","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\/174492","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=174492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}