NEW BRITAIN \u2014 The Central Connecticut State women’s soccer team posted its second straight shutout in a 2-0 win at home against UAlbany on Sunday. The Blue Devils scored a goal on either side of halftime to win their second straight game.<\/p>\n
Central opened the scoring with 16 minutes to play in the opening half. Off a corner kick, Rebecca Devereux finished off the kick from Kayla Ward at the near corner to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n
UAlbany opened the second half with its first scoring chance of the afternoon. Mariella Fulcher would put a shot to the lower right, but it was stopped by Ellie Westcott.<\/p>\n
CCSU would double its lead with just over 20 minutes remaining when Eve Girardi picked up a loose ball inside the 18-yard box and fired her shot into the open net to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
With just over 5:30 to play, the Great Danes had their best scoring opportunity. Lila Algarin took a shot from the left side just outside 20 yards away, but it hit the crossbar, and Tamia Nelson’s shot on the rebound was saved by Westcott.<\/p>\n
Westcott made 10 saves for the Blue Devils to collect her first career shutout.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils play at Bryant on Thursday, August 27, in a 7 p.m. kickoff.<\/p>\n
The Central Connecticut men’s soccer team opened the 2026 season with a second-half surge to down Manhattan, 3-2, on Sunday. The Blue Devils erased a two-goal deficit with a three-goal outburst in the span of 6:38 to get the win.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils created the first chance of the afternoon when fifth-year forward Ben-Martin Wilkinson broke down the right wing and got off a shot. Gaspar Homar Bennasar pushed it aside to set up CCSU’s first corner kick of the day.<\/p>\n
The Jaspers would open the scoring in the 17th minute when Pau Mascarell controlled the ball and sent a long pass ahead to Tycho van Haaren. van Haaren got behind the CCSU defense and would slip his shot by the goalkeeper to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils would create another chance just past midway through the opening half. First-year Alen Kapetanovic would cut through the middle of the Jaspers’ defense and got off a low shot that was smothered by Homar Bennasar.<\/p>\n
Manhattan doubled the lead just under five minutes into the second half when Khaled Daoud cut through the middle of the defense and slipped a pass to Ziv Dahan, who pushed a low shot into the back of the net to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
CCSU cut the deficit in half in the 62nd minute when its attack resulted in a foul by Manhattan bringing down a Blue Devil in the penalty box. Miguel Gonzalez converted the kick to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n
Central tied it just two minutes later when Santiago Marin Guttierez kicked a cross from the left wing that found Wilkinson in front of goal, who redirected the kick to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils took the lead at the 67:39 mark, which was set up by a free kick following a handball just outside the 18-yard box. Marin had his initial shot saved on the free kick, but Jaran Klevberg would get a shot off the rebound, and following another save, he would punt it into an open net to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
Following a red card in the 82nd minute, CCSU played a man down, but the Jaspers managed just one shot, which was saved by Carter Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n
CCSU travels to UMass Lowell for a 2 p.m. kickoff on Thursday, Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
AMHERST, Mass. \u2013 No. 24 UConn men’s soccer was defeated by the UMASS Minutemen, 3-1 on Sunday afternoon at Rudd Field. The Huskies fall to 0-2 on the season.<\/p>\n
UMass quickly took control of the match, scoring the game’s opening goal just 45 seconds in. The Minutemen doubled their lead in the 12th minute, putting the Huskies down 2-0 early on.<\/p>\n
UMass continued to dominate in the early going, scoring their third goal of the half in the 25th minute, putting UConn in a deep hole at 3-0.<\/p>\n
The Huskies carried the three-goal deficit into the halftime break. Despite trailing, UConn held an 8-7 advantage in shots in the opening half.<\/p>\n
Senior forward Elijah Langford scored the Huskies’ lone goal of the match in the 75th minute, recording his second goal of the season to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n
UConn continued to throw numbers forward down the stretch, but the deficit proved to be too large for the Huskies to overcome.<\/p>\n
UConn returns to Morrone Stadium on Thursday, August 27 as the Huskies will welcome Fairfield to Storrs. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BRITAIN \u2014 The Central Connecticut State women’s soccer team posted its second straight shutout in a 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-328326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}