RICHMOND, Va.– The College of Massachusetts males’s soccer workforce remained unbeaten with a 0-0 draw at VCU within the Atlantic 10 opener on Saturday night. The beginning via seven video games marks the very best open to a season because the 2006 marketing campaign through which the Minutemen had been 6-0-1 to start the yr.
The Minutemen (5-0-2 General, 0-0-1 A-10) outshot VCU 11 to 4 within the ultimate 45 minutes and completed with a 16 to 12 shot benefit. UMass put 5 pictures on aim in comparison with 4 for the Rams and we’re led by two pictures on aim from each Ryan Levay and Aidan Kelly.
Each Levay and Kelly had been concerned in a number of the finest scoring alternatives for the Minutemen on the evening. Levay had a chance in entrance of aim within the 24th-minute following an Evan Fournier free kick from simply exterior the left nook of the 18-yard field. Fournier despatched a cross to the far put up for Levay, who headed it simply over aim for his second shot of the evening.
The pair recorded consecutive pictures on aim within the 61st-minute following a UMass nook, first with a Levay shot that was saved earlier than a observe up try from Kelly was additionally stopped.
Alex Geczy and Matt Zambetti put collectively their second mixed shutout of the season in aim for the Minutemen. Zambetti recorded two saves earlier than being relieved within the 40th-minute by Geczy, who stopped three pictures on the evening within the ultimate 50 minutes of play.
UMass returns residence to Rudd Discipline on Tuesday for non-conference motion in opposition to UMass Lowell at 4 p.m. and can host its first league recreation of the yr at residence on Saturday in opposition to Duquesne.
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