{"id":459193,"date":"2026-09-10T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459193\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:48:12","slug":"cleveland-state-mens-soccer-downed-in-league-opener-at-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459193\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland State Men&#8217;s Soccer Downed in League Opener at Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/detroit_mercy_logo.png\" alt=\"Detroit Mercy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Detroit Mercy<\/p>\n<p>9\/12\/2026 | 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 12 (Sat) \/ 7:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/detroit_mercy_logo.png\" alt=\"Detroit Mercy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Detroit Mercy&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/csuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/detroit-mercy\/69\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ROCHESTER, Mich. \u2013 Cleveland State (1-3-1, 0-1-0) opened its title defense with a 2-0 loss to Oakland (2-2-1, 1-0-0) on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The opening half went scoreless with the Golden Grizzlies holding a 5-4 edge in shots. However, the shots on goal favored the Vikings 2-1 and corner kicks 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland obtained the 1-0 lead just four minutes into the second half on a corner kick and doubled the margin in the 82nd minute with an unassisted goal.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland State held an 11-10 edge in shots with each team putting three shots on frame. The Green and White held a commanding 7-3 advantage in corners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/tom-mertz\/5125\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5125\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Mertz<\/a> paced the game with four shots including two on frame. <a href=\"https:\/\/csuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/domenic-ruggiero\/5166\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5166\" target=\"_blank\">Domenic Ruggiero<\/a> followed with three shots. <a href=\"https:\/\/csuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/aleksandar-kolar\/5123\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5123\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandar Kolar<\/a> made one save in goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings remain in Horizon League play on Saturday at home against Detroit Mercy with a 7 p.m. kickoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Detroit Mercy 9\/12\/2026 | 7:00 PM &#13; Sep. 12 (Sat) \/ 7:00 PM&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-459193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459193","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=459193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}