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Athletics Site of the Mount Union Purple Raiders
Athletics Site of the Mount Union Purple Raiders
Rylan Wikle
Emily Swisher
Rylan Wikle
4
Winner Otterbein OTT (7-0-2, 1-0-0)
2
Mount Union MTU (7-1-1, 0-1-0)
Winner
Otterbein OTT
(7-0-2, 1-0-0)
4
Final
2
Mount Union MTU
(7-1-1, 0-1-0)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Otterbein OTT 1 3 4
Mount Union MTU 2 0 2

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Brendon Reese

Raiders Fall for the First Time at Home

ALLIANCE, Ohio – The Mount Union men's soccer team saw No. 13 nationally ranked Otterbein rally from two goals down to win 4-2 and hand the Purple Raiders their first loss of the season in the Ohio Athletic Conference opener Saturday night at Mount Union Stadium.

Mount Union is now 7-1-1 overall and 0-1-0 in the OAC while Otterbein is 7-0-2 overall and 1-0-0 in the OAC.

Mount Union scored first in the 25th minute when sophomore Jamon McCort (Magonlia / Sandy Valley) got a goal off an assist from senior Rylan Wikle (Olmsted Falls). Wikle added a goal of his off an assist from Gavin Velazquez (Amherst / Steele) in the 38th minute to get the Raiders out to a 2-0 lead.

Otterbein got its first goal four minutes later from Nathan Neal and Mount Union held a 2-1 lead at the break. The Cardinals then scored three times in the second half during a span of 19:18 as Will Isaac notched a pair of unassisted goals in the 64th and 72nd minute before Joshua Conroy finished the scoring. 

The four goals were the most allowed in a game by Mount Union in 106 games, since a 5-0 loss to Case Western Reserve in the 2015 season opener on Sept. 1.

The Raiders return to the pitch Wednesday, October 6 at 7 p.m. to take on John Carroll in an OAC game in University Heights, Ohio.
 
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