{"id":448439,"date":"2026-08-31T00:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:26:12","slug":"falcons-fall-to-uc-san-diego-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448439\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Fall to UC San Diego, 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USAF ACADEMY \u2013 The men&#8217;s soccer team came up short in the home opener against UC San Diego, 1-0, Sunday afternoon at Cadet Soccer Stadium. The result marks the first loss for AF (0-1-2) this season. The Tritons improved to 3-0 and have yet to concede a goal this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Triton&#8217;s got on the board early as Oren Stuppel and Sean Ueda connected on a strike in the 10th minute. The goal marked the third for Struppel this season. With the lead in hand, the defense mounted up to fight off an aggressive Air Force team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Falcons, taking 12 shots attempts, put a season high six shots on goal. Freshman forward <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/xidane-espinoza\/29042\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"29042\" target=\"_blank\">Xidane Espinoza<\/a> narrowly missed on an equalizer in the 13th minute. <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/ben-brophy\/29021\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"29021\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Brophy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/logan-zaa\/12519\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12519\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Zaa<\/a> led the offensive effort with three and two shots, respectively, Zaa&#8217;s opportunity just high of a tying goal from a deflection.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThere was no shortage of effort from the Falcons as they battled for the full 90 minutes. Freshman goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/hunter-anderson\/29038\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"29038\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Anderson<\/a> was only tested once by the attacking Tritons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNext up, the Falcons hit the road for a pair of matches on the Pacific Coast, taking on San Francisco on Friday, September 4, and St. Mary&#8217;s on Labor Day, September 8. Action is slated for 7pm PT and 1 pm PT, respectively.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USAF ACADEMY \u2013 The men&#8217;s soccer team came up short in the home opener against UC San Diego,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448439","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\/448439","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=448439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}