JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Men’s Soccer netted two goals in the final three minutes of regulation to defeat crosstown rival Jacksonville, 2-1, in its ASUN Conference opener at Southern Oak Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Freshman forward\u00a0Emir Trto<\/a> notched the equalizer in the 87th\u00a0minute and senior midfielder Mark Romano<\/a> added a go-ahead header in the 89th\u00a0minute. It marked the first-career goal for Trto and fifth-career goal for Romano, both Jacksonville, Fla. natives.<\/p>\n North Florida has now won four-straight matches and is unbeaten in the last six matches against Jacksonville.<\/p>\n Senior forward Geraldo Neto<\/a> notched a pair of shots, including a shot on goal, in the initial 16 minutes of action. Neto finished with a team-high four shots.<\/p>\n North Florida also threatened with three corners in the initial 22 minutes of the first half. North Florida took a 3-1 margin in corners into the half. North Florida held a 2-0 advantage in shots on goal after the first 45 minutes.<\/p>\n The Ospreys attacked the Dolphins’ backline with three shots in the 10 minutes out of half. Jacksonville added its goal in the 63rd\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n Senior Tarik Freire<\/a> made his North Florida debut. 16 Ospreys totaled action and fifth year goalkeeper Luciano Natoli<\/a>, junior defender Rafa Rios<\/a>, junior forward Kaiss Mansouri<\/a>, senior midfielder Anton Khelil<\/a>, senior defender Mikhail Keise<\/a> and senior defender Germain Kapela<\/a> played the full time. Rios has played the full time in all five matches this season.<\/p>\n North Florida outshot its hosts 10-7 and 4-3 in corner kicks.<\/p>\n North Florida is back in action when it hosts Coastal Carolina at Hodges Stadium on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Men’s Soccer netted two goals in the final three minutes of regulation to defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-391989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}