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0
Rider RID (6-4-0, 0-1-0)
2
Winner Army West Point Army (2-7-1, 0-3-0)
Rider RID
(6-4-0, 0-1-0)
0
Final
2
Army West Point Army
(2-7-1, 0-3-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Rider RID 0 0 0
Army West Point Army 1 1 2

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Army West Point Defeats Men's Soccer, 2-0

WEST POINT, NY – The Rider University men's soccer team outshot Army West Point, 19-6, including a 6-3 edge in shots on target, but the Black Knights defeated the Broncs, 2-0, Tuesday night. With the loss, the Broncs fall to 6-4-0, while Army snapped a six-game losing streak to improve to 2-7-1.

The Black Knights took a 1-0 lead in the 15th minute, with Rider keeper Ben Collins (Wellington, New Zealand/Wellington College) making the initial save on a Ronald Zhai shot, but the rebound was left for Kai Thomas for the score.

The Broncs developed countless chances in the second chance, but couldn't find the back of the net. Notably, Momo Diop (Thies, Senegal/Prive Serigne Touba) sent a shot off the crossbar in 57', while Luke Kirilenko (McKinney, TX/Impington International College [Virginia]) had a solid look off the ensuing corner, ripping a shot from atop the 18-yard box, but Army keeper Keanu Likewise was there for the stop. In 77', Cole Sotack (Doylestown, PA /Central Bucks East [Rutgers]) sent a perfect ball to the six-yard box, finding the head of Adel Al Masude (Brussels, Belgium/GO Lyceum Gent). But the Broncs' graduate student couldn't direct it on target.

Shortly thereafter, Army won its first corner kick of the game and made it count. Miles Hadley put it in with the left foot from the middle of the box, finishing off Thomas' corner kick, played down by Zhai.

Notes
- Army extended its lead in the all-time series to 14-1-0. The last time the two teams had met on the pitch was Sept. 29, 2010.   
- Collins made one save in goal for the Broncs.
- Collins, Sotack, Jack McGeechan (Allendale, NJ/Northern Highlands Regional), Martin Chladek (Prague, Czech Republic/Gymnazium Voderadska [Montevallo]), Diop, Theo Da Silva (Sao Paulo, Brazil/University of Rio Grande), Andrew Erickson (San Antonio, TX/International School of the Americas [Kentucky]) and Max Schrader (Cherry Hill, NJ/Scholar Athletes Leadership Academy) each played all 90 minutes.
- The start was the first of Collins' Rider career.

Broncs By The Numbers
- Rider took a 19-6 edge in shots, including a 6-3 edge in shots on goal.
- The Broncs took 12 corner kicks to the Black Knights' two.
- Both teams were cautioned once.

Up Next
- The Broncs return to MAAC action Saturday, when they travel to Merrimack. Kickoff from North Andover, MA, is scheduled for 4 p.m. 
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