Omaha, Neb. — With goals in the opening two minutes of each half and the game winner in the 80th minute (79:40), Creighton Men’s Soccer defeated San Francisco 4-2 on Thursday, August 27. The win pushed Creighton to 2-0-1 on the season, while San Francisco fell to 0-2-1.<\/p>\n
Senior Matthew Reed<\/a> tallied the first goal of the match in the 2nd minute (1:48) converting a series of passes from junior Brady Bragg<\/a> and junior Brian Edelman<\/a>. Bragg fed a pass along the sideline to Edelman, who centered a ball to Reed at the back post.<\/p>\n San Francisco answered in the 26th minute (25:47 as David Raphael saw his first shot blocked, but quickly reclaimed and fired for an unassisted goal.<\/p>\n In the closing second of the half, Creighton appeared to take a 2-1 lead as sophomore Aaron Deppe<\/a> lofted a ball past San Francisco goalkeeper Lucas Jones. The goal, however, was inexplicably ruled to have crossed after time expired and no review was allowed.<\/p>\n Creighton wasted little time retaking the lead in the second half as freshman Jordan Igwenma<\/a> fed sophomore Ayden Kokoszka<\/a> a centered pass inside the box in the 47th minute (46:30).<\/p>\n Once more the Dons responded as Raphael found Isaiah Easley for the equalizer in the 57th minute (56:20).<\/p>\n The 60th minute, however, changed the matcha as Raphael picked up his second yellow card of the contest. The result forced USF to play a man down for the final 30:48.<\/p>\n Creighton took advantage as Igwenma finished passes from Bragg and freshman Carter Derksen<\/a> for the game-winning goal. Angel Lopez<\/a> added some insurance with an unassisted goal with 84:59 on the clock.<\/p>\n The match featured eight total yellow cards, four to each squad. While Creighton outshot San Francisco, 23-14.<\/p>\n The Bluejays play their first road match of the season on Monday, August 31 as Creighton travels to Tulsa to face the Golden Hurricane at 7:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omaha, Neb. — With goals in the opening two minutes of each half and the game winner in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-447091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447091","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=447091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}