{"id":334176,"date":"2025-12-09T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334176\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:24:13","slug":"mens-team-of-the-week-dec-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334176\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Team of the Week: Dec. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A freshman with a historic world class goal leads the latest men\u2019s college soccer team of the week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topdrawersoccer.com\/college-soccer\/college-scoreboard\/men\/divisionid-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Men\u2019s Division I Scoreboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although a center back, Furman freshman Braden Dunham has shown a goal-scoring touch all season with six goals going into the Elite Eight. Yet no one could have seen what he did coming as he executed a perfect chip from near the halfway line to catch Portland off guard and send the Paladins to their first College Cup in program history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\">Please send any future Team of the Week nominations to college@topdrawersoccer.com<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Player of the Week: Braden Dunham, Furman(m)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Men\u2019s Team of the Week: December 1-December 7<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">GK: Ivan Horvat, Furman(m) &#8211; A commanding clean sheet and seven crucial saves powered the Paladins to an upset at Portland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">D: Quinten Blair, Saint Louis(m) &#8211; A successful penalty conversion from Blair was vital in the 3-2 comeback defeat of Akron.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">D: Braden Dunham, Furman(m) &#8211; Dunham\u2019s long-range chip was the lone goal to defeat Portland 1-0.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">D: Isaac Heffess, NC State(m) &#8211; A decisive assist and 90 influential minutes elevated NC State past Georgetown 3-2 on the road.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">M: Taig Healy, NC State(m) &#8211; The senior midfielder struck six minutes in, generating momentum for the 3-2 Elite Eight victory over Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">M: Tanner Anderson, Saint Louis(m) \u2013 Anderson scored the 87th-minute comeback-sealing goal to defeat Akron.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">M: Richie Aman, Washington(m) &#8211; Aman delivered two assists in the 3-1 win over Maryland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">M: Osato Enabulele, Washington(m) &#8211; The freshman\u2019s crucial equalizer ignited the 3-1 victory over Maryland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">F: Andrew Heckenlaible, Saint Louis(m) \u2013 Heckenlaible assisted the game-winner in the 3-2 upset of Akron.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">F: Charlie Kosakoff, Washington(m) \u2013 Kosakoff scored the go-ahead goal in Washington\u2019s 3-1 win over Maryland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">F: Donavan Phillip, NC State(m) &#8211; An assist from Phillip helped NC State defeat Georgetown on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A freshman with a historic world class goal leads the latest men\u2019s college soccer team of the week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-334176","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\/334176","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=334176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}