The host Toreros regrouped during the intermission and tied the contest on a goal by Noah James less than 10 minutes into the second half. San Diego forward Steven Ramirez then netted back-to-back goals less than two minutes apart shortly after the 60-minute mark to take the two-goal lead.<\/p>\n
Liberty drops to 1-1 on the season. San Diego moves to 2-0 after entering the match off a 2-1 victory over No. 1 Washington on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary
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\n41′ \u2013 LIBERTY \u2013 Samson Kpardeh<\/a> (Assisted by Javan Ochieng<\/a>)
\n54′ \u2013 USD \u2013 Noah James (Assisted by Jaxson Findlay and Mathias Bauer)
\n62′ \u2013 USD \u2013 Steven Ramirez (Assisted by Mathias Bauer)
\n64′ \u2013 USD \u2013 Steven Ramirez (Assisted by Iain Wagner and Luca Fava)<\/p>\n![\"Men's](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787556493_753_MSOC_Stat_Recap_.png\")
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\nKey Stats & Notes
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\n\tHost San Diego outshot Liberty, 16-8, in the match. The Toreros held a 7-1 advantage in shots on goal over the Flames.
\n\tSan Diego held a 3-2 edge over Liberty in corner kicks.
\n\tDespite being outshot 7- 2 in the first half, Kpardeh gave Liberty a 1-0 advantage late in the half.
\n\tKpardeh scored his second goal of the season, as he scored a goal in the Flames’ victory at San Diego State on Thursday.
\n\tMidfielder Javan Ochieng<\/a> assisted on Kpardeh’s goal, his second assist of the season.
\n\tLiberty goalkeeper Dan Rose<\/a> made four\u00a0saves over the 90 minutes. USD goalkeeper Lucca Adams did not record a save.
\n\tThe Flames and Toreros were meeting for the first time in their program history this evening.
\n\tLiberty went 1-1 on their San Diego road trip.
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\nNext Up
\nLiberty will host the FGCU Eagles in its first home game of the season at Osborne Stadium. Match time is scheduled for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, CALIF. \u2013 Trailing 1-0, the No. 18 San Diego scored three unanswered goals in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-441820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}