{"id":454203,"date":"2026-09-05T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454203\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:12:08","slug":"spartans-battle-no-1-stanford-in-narrow-defeat-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454203\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Battle No. 1 Stanford in Narrow Defeat &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2013\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/ronin-axelson\" title=\"Ronin Axelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronin Axelson<\/a> made six saves to lead the San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s soccer team (1-3-0, 0-0-0 MW) in a 1-0 loss to No. 1 Stanford (5-0-0, 0-0-0 ACC) on Friday night at the Spartan Soccer Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford scored the match\u2019s only goal in the 36th minute off a free kick set piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/angel-gutierrez\" title=\"Angel Gutierrez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Gutierrez<\/a> produced San Jos\u00e9 State\u2019s lone shot moments after entering the match, sending an attempt over the crossbar in the 36th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Axelson made two saves in the opening half and added four after the break, helping the Spartans hold Stanford scoreless over the final 54 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/ruben-flores\" title=\"Ruben Flores-Thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruben Flores-Thomas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/tiko-moodie\" title=\"Tiko Moodie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiko Moodie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/angel-fernandez\" title=\"Angel Fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/cameronc-cook\" title=\"Cameron Cook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Cook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/diego-nieves\" title=\"Diego Nieves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Nieves<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/player\/amir-anwary\" title=\"Amir Anwary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amir Anwary<\/a> each played the full 90 minutes for the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans played in front of 1,345 fans which was the third highest attended men\u2019s soccer match ever at the Spartan Soccer Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Axelson\u2019s six saves tied his career-high<br \/>\nAxelson now has 20 saves through four games<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT: The Spartans will face Sacramento State on Sunday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. PT at the Spartan Soccer Complex.\u00a0 The game can be watched on MW+.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2013\u00a0 \u00a0Ronin Axelson made six saves to lead the San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s soccer team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-454203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454203","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=454203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}