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STORRS, Conn. - The University of Cincinnati men's soccer team was defeated, 5-0, by the No. 18 UConn Huskies on Saturday night at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium in Storrs, Connecticut.
The Bearcats' drop to 6-4-1 overall and 2-1-0 in American Athletic Conference play, while the Huskies improve to 9-3-0 and an undefeated 3-0 in league action. Saturday snapped a six-match unbeaten streak for UC, while UConn won its sixth-consecutive match.
Playing in wet conditions in Storrs, UC was able to thwart many Husky advances in the opening 20 minutes of the match. A UConn goal in the 25th minute put UC behind and another Husky score shortly thereafter put the Bearcats in a bind very quickly. An early second half UConn goal dug UC's hole even deeper and it couldn't recover. The Bearcats offense was stymied most of the match with their first shot on goal coming late in the second period.
// GOAL SCORING SUMMARY
25' - UCONN Abdou Thiam (Cheikh Coly, Jake Nerwinski)
Off of a deflected shot, Thiam gathered the ball in the box and sent a shot past redshirt junior goalkeeper Pedro Diaz (Mason, Ohio/Mason) for his eighth goal of the season.
33' - UCONN Sebastian Brems (Niko Petridis)
The Huskies struck again minutes later when Brems scored his first goal of the season off of a helper from Niko Petridis.
52' - UCONN Kwame Awuah (Abdou Thiam, Alex Sanchez)
Awuah scored his first goal of the season off of a cross from the far right flank that he sent into the upper left corner of the net for the score.
59' - UCONN Simen Olafsen (Sebastian Brems)
The Huskies added their fourth goal off of a Brems corner kick which Olafsen headed from distance into the upper right corner of the net.
66' - UCONN Kwame Awuah (Jake Nerwinski)
UConn scored its fifth and final goal on Awuah's second score of the match off of a feed from Nerwinski.
// BEARCATS SCORING CHANCES
- The Bearcats had an early corner kick from sophomore Adam Wilson (Auchterarder, Scotland/Dollar Academy) which freshman Elliott Williams (London, England) headed wide in the first minute.
- Wilson had another corner kick midway through the first half which was kicked in short and fed back to Wilson who fired a shot into the box.
- Wilson had a free kick from outside the box later in the first half that was blocked by the UConn wall.
- UC's first shot attempt on goal came in the 84th minute when senior Nick Melville (Portland, Maine/Cheverus/Iowa Western) had his shot from outside the box saved by UConn goalkeeper Scott Levene.
- A shot in the 89th minute by freshman Cameron Panley (Beverly Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) went wide.
// COMMENTS FROM COACH DAYES
"Tonight we lost to a very good UConn team," said head coach Hylton Dayes. "They controlled the tempo of the game from the first whistle and we just could not generate any chances. I don't think UConn saw our best tonight but we will regroup and get ready for our midweek game vs IUPUI."
// UP NEXT
The Bearcats will continue their road swing when they travel to Indianapolis, Indiana to take on the IUPUI Jaguars on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m.