{"id":893953,"date":"2026-09-13T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893953\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:40:19","slug":"eagles-fall-to-benedictine-mesa-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893953\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Fall to Benedictine Mesa, 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Next Game:<\/p>\n

La Sierra University<\/p>\n

9\/15\/2026 | 7:30pm<\/p>\n


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\n \u00a0La Sierra University \n <\/p>\n

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Embry-Riddle\u00a0dropped a tightly contested Great Southwest Athletic Conference match to Benedictine Mesa, 2-1, Saturday at home.<\/p>\n

The Eagles created several early opportunities, including a shot off the post by Christopher Cruz<\/a> in the 18th minute. Cruz was awarded a penalty kick later in the half, but Benedictine goalkeeper Charlie Shepherd made the save to keep the match scoreless.<\/p>\n

Benedictine took a 1-0 lead in the 36th minute when Pol Bistue found the back of the net. Embry-Riddle responded just 35 seconds into the second half, as Cesar Battistini<\/a> scored off assists from Erick Quirarte<\/a> and Rodrigo Garcia<\/a> to level the match at 1-1.<\/p>\n

The Eagles continued to pressure the Redhawks and finished with a 9-3 advantage in corner kicks. Embry-Riddle goalkeeper Sam Macdonald<\/a> also recorded three saves to keep ERAU within striking distance.<\/p>\n

Benedictine regained the lead in the 84th minute when Bryan Ncube scored the eventual game-winning goal. Embry-Riddle pushed forward late, but Shepherd turned aside a final header from Kevin Yamna<\/a> in the 89th minute to preserve the Redhawks’ victory.<\/p>\n

Embry-Riddle finished with eight shots, including four on goal, while Benedictine recorded 16 shots and five shots on target.<\/p>\n

ERAU will continue GSAC play on Tuesday as the Eagles host La Sierra for a 7:30pm kickoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Game: La Sierra University 9\/15\/2026 | 7:30pm Sep. 15 (Tue) \/ 7:30pm …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-893953","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\/893953","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=893953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}