On Sunday, SIUE topped Webster 3-0 while Lindenwood earned a draw at Seattle.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - SIUE men's soccer blanked Webster University 3-0 Sunday night in its final tune up before Ohio Valley Conference play.
The Cougars improved to 2-4-1. Division III Webster dropped to 0-1-3.
Ryley Gibbs opened the scoring in the 18th minute, finishing from six yards out after a short pass into the box from the right side from Anthony Faupel.
Archie McDonnell scored his second goal in as many games to double the lead in the 27th minute. A shot attempt pinballed to him at the corner of the six-yard box and he headed home for his second of the year.
Dominic Bartoni hit a right foot curler to the back post to push the SIUE advantage to 3-0 in the 54th minute.
SIUE finished with a season-high 17 shots and outshot Webster 17-8, including an 8-0 advantage in the second half.
Mathias Clausen paced the Cougars with four shots and two on goal. Gibbs had three total shots. Bartoni had two shots and both were on goal.
SIUE goalkeepers Ioannis Koupepides and freshman Brady Cochrane combined for the second shutout of the year for the Cougars. Koupepides made three saves in 61 minutes. Cochrane did not make a save in 29 minutes of play, his first action as a Cougar.
The Cougars put shots on target. Webster goalkeeper Jakub Samelko allowed all three goals and made four saves in just more than 75 minutes. Charlie Leahy played the final 10:35 and did not make a save.
LINDENWOOD 1, SEATTLE 1
SEATTLE - The Lindenwood Men's Soccer team (3-2-3, 0-0-0 OVC) earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw on Sunday evening at Seattle to conclude their non-conference portion of the schedule. Both squads recorded just one shot in the first half with neither Goalkeeper recording a save.
The Lions had three corner kicks in the first 45 minutes of play with two of them coming within the first 10 minutes of the first half, but LU could not come up with the first goal of the game early on. Javaun Mills took the only shot of the half for Lindenwood in the 21st minute and tried to sneak the ball past the goalkeeper from just inside of midfield, but the shot went right of the goalpost and the game remained scoreless. With less than five minutes to play in the opening frame, Seattle sent a cross pass into the box that found the head of the Redhawks' Takashi Sasaki who was able to get a shot off, but the ball went wide left of the goal as the first half came to a close with no score.
Early on in the second half, Seattle struck first and grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 47th minute off a header from a corner kick to register their first shot on goal of the game. The Redhawks would record the next two shots of the game in the 49th and 58th minutes, but both shots were off target as the deficit remained at one for the Lions.
Phillip Viberg Rasmussen took the first shot on goal for the Lions in the 62nd minute on a shot from beyond the box, but the Seattle Goalkeeper was able to gather the shot attempt and keep Lindenwood off the scoreboard. Five minutes later, the Lions were awarded a free kick and off the free kick the ball landed at the feet of Clement Baron. Baron fired a turn around shot on net from inside the box, but the shot was also turned away by Seattle.
LU kept putting pressure on the Seattle defense for the remainder of the half, recording 10 total shots in the last 45 minutes of play, and eventually scored the equalizing goal in the 81st minute to earn the 1-1 draw. Thato Lekgetho gathered the ball from just outside of the box, created enough space to get a shot off, and sent the shot right at a Seattle defender. The defender tried to redirect the shot wide of the goal, but instead used his head to redirect the ball into the back left corner of the net to even the score at one with less than 10 minutes to play. Luca Bartoni, Lekgetho, and Omar Sanderson would each record another shot attempt over the final nine minutes of the second half, but none of the shots were on target as the game would result in a tie.
Defensively, Lindenwood limited Seattle to eight total shots with only two of them being on goal, one of which was saved by Quinn Closson. Offensively, Javaun Mills, Lekgetho, and Viberg Rasmussen each took two shots to lead the Lions in that category.