{"id":880163,"date":"2026-09-02T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880163\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:02:16","slug":"mens-soccer-falls-to-suny-oneonta-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880163\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer Falls to SUNY Oneonta in Season-Opener"},"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\/2026\/09\/Clark_Mass.png\" alt=\"Clark\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Clark<\/p>\n<p>9\/4\/2026 | 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 04 (Fri) \/ 6:00 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\/2026\/09\/Clark_Mass.png\" alt=\"Clark\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Clark&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/unionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/clark\/68\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ONEONTA, N.Y. \u2013 The Union College men&#8217;s soccer team kicked off the 2026 season on Tuesday afternoon, dropping a 3-1 match to SUNY Oneonta in a non-conference matchup at Red Dragon Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/unionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/kofi-sarfoh\/39024\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39024\" target=\"_blank\">Kofi Sarfoh<\/a> recorded the goal for Union (0-1) on the afternoon, while first-year <a href=\"https:\/\/unionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/joseph-carofano\/40113\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"40113\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Carofano<\/a> picked up an assist for his first collegiate point in his debut.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSarfoh got the match \u2013 and the season \u2013 off to a great start for the Garnet Chargers, as he opened the scoring just 4:50 into the contest. Oneonta (1-0) took six of the next seven shots, but first-year keeper <a href=\"https:\/\/unionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/michael-karcher\/40105\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"40105\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Karcher<\/a> made four saves to keep the visitors ahead at the halftime whistle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Red Dragons continued the offensive pressure into the second half and found the equalizer less than seven minutes into the frame on a goal by Imari Harris, and Oneonta&#8217;s Anthony Traube scored 2:45 later to put the home team ahead. Union went back on the offensive after that, recording a pair of shots and earning two corner opportunities, but Oneonta responded with an insurance goal in the 73rd minute to complete the scoring.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKarcher made eight saves to keep Union in the match, as the Red Dragons outshot the Garnet Chargers by a 15-5 margin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUnion will return home for a pair of games this weekend, beginning on Friday with a 6 p.m. match against Clark University at College Park Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Clark 9\/4\/2026 | 6:00 PM &#13; Sep. 04 (Fri) \/ 6:00 PM&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-880163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880163","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=880163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}