{"id":298083,"date":"2026-10-02T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298083\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:22:12","slug":"stealing-from-friends-is-ok-legacy-hands-erie-boys-soccer-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298083\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing from friends is OK. Legacy hands Erie boys soccer first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTMINSTER \u2014 It wasn\u2019t quite on par with an overly aggressive Dwight stealing the ball from his upstairs-office teammate Ryan while playing the warehouse guys in the \u201cBasketball\u201d episode of The Office.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy\u2019s Alex Kaup said he was simply trying to make a play inside the box when he realized he may have accidentally corralled the ball away from forward teammate Channing Schmidt \u2014 before scoring the go-ahead goal in the 68th minute of the Lightning\u2019s 2-1 win over Erie at North Stadium on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I thought I was going to score there,\u201d Schmidt said with a chuckle, \u201cbut Alex made a great run and punched it in. I\u2019m happy for him to get that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing didn\u2019t segue into The Office theme song. Instead, it led to a third straight win for the Lightning (6-1-2, 1-0 5A Front Range League) and the first loss of the season for the Tigers (7-1-1, 0-1).<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt scored his third goal of the season in the 47th minute for Legacy, answering Liam O\u2019Munneke\u2019s goal from the 43rd for Erie. Schmidt then pushed into the box looking for his second goal of the game but instead settled for his fifth assist of the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanning was on the ball, being aggressive in the box area, which is always important for him,\u201d Kaup said. \u201cAnd then I kind of stole it from him there. \u2026 He really deserves credit for that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WESTMINSTER: Erie's Cael Ferrera strikes the ball against Legacy on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DCC-L-FERRERA.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Erie&#8217;s Cael Ferrera strikes the ball against Legacy on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WESTMINSTER: Erie's Leo Hinojosa with the ball against Legacy on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DCC-L-LEOHINOJOSA.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Erie&#8217;s Leo Hinojosa with the ball against Legacy on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WESTMINSTER: Legacy's Mario Langer (left) and Erie's Tomas Olivares go...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DCC-L-ERIELEG.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Legacy&#8217;s Mario Langer (left) and Erie&#8217;s Tomas Olivares go for the ball on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WESTMINSTER: Erie's Leo Hinojosa (left) and Legacy's David Parameswaran fight...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DCC-L-ERLEG.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Erie&#8217;s Leo Hinojosa (left) and Legacy&#8217;s David Parameswaran fight for the ball on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WESTMINSTER: Erie's Liam O'Munneke with the ball against Legacy on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DCC-L-LIAMOM.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Erie&#8217;s Liam O&#8217;Munneke with the ball against Legacy on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>WESTMINSTER: Erie&#8217;s Cael Ferrera strikes the ball against Legacy on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (Photo by Brent W. New\/BoCoPreps.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lightning entered the day 11th in CHSAA\u2019s 5A standings, while Erie was third.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers came into the day led by 5A\u2019s points and goals leader Cael Ferrera, who tallied his 26th point of the season with a perfectly placed lead pass to O\u2019Munneke for the game\u2019s opening goal.<\/p>\n<p>But Ferrera was largely contained by Legacy the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Erie\u2019s senior captain called the Lightning the more mentally strong team afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something we need to fix mentally,\u201d said Ferrera, who has 11 goals and four assists on the year. \u201cThey came back from being down, and that\u2019s something we need to work on there. But we have to look forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers went unbeaten through eight nonleague games but got something of a reality check to start play in the FRL.<\/p>\n<p>After a muddled first half, Legacy was clearly the better team after halftime. With the score tied 1-1, the Lightning were denied a go-ahead goal by a spectacular two-on-one save from senior goalkeeper Brendan McNeal. But the stalemate lasted only minutes longer before Kaup won it with his third goal of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur league\u2019s going to be tough all season,\u201d Ferrera said.<\/p>\n<p>Erie is at No. 36 Fossil Ridge on Tuesday, while Legacy is home against No. 22 Broomfield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/prep-sports-all-sports-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View a list of Prep sports and high school teams we cover.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMINSTER \u2014 It wasn\u2019t quite on par with an overly aggressive Dwight stealing the ball from his upstairs-office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[123042,6500,136,138,137,113],"class_list":["post-298083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boys-soccer","tag-chsaa","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}