Logger Men Drop Season Opener, 1-0
ORANGE, Calif. - In a match dominated by defense, the Puget Sound Loggers were on the wrong end of a 1-0 season-opening match with the Chapman Panthers in a NCAA Division III men's soccer game on Friday night in Orange, Calif. The game marked the season-opener for both squads.
In the first period, the Loggers (0-1) worked the ball into the Chapman (1-0) half of the field, earning two corner kicks to go with a pair of shots but the Panthers' Cody Mansfield broke the scoreless draw in the 41st minute on an unassisted goal that got past Logger keeper Scott Macha (Eugene, Ore./Marist).
The Loggers added three more shots and one more corner in the second half but the Chapman tandem of Tyler Hadinsky and Matt Bernhardt was able to keep the ball out of the net.
Junior Alex Lehecka (Burlington, Wash./Burlington-Edison) had the only shot-on-goal for the Loggers in his only attempt of the night. Macha made a save in the second half, his lone stop of the contest, as the UPS defense held Chapman to just six shots on the night, including just two on target.
The Loggers will stay in Southern California for the holiday weekend, taking on Pomona-Pitzer on Monday afternoon before returning to Tacoma for the start of classes on Tuesday.
