The Illinois Tech Men’s Soccer team won its first Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference match of the season against Concordia (Chicago) at Stuart Field on October 3. The 2-0 victory snapped a five-game losing streak for the Scarlet Hawks.

Illinois Tech out shot the Cougars, 11-4.

How It Happened

• The Scarlet Hawks played stellar, hard-nosed defense all match, allowing only four shots (one on goal).
• Peter Fouchet found Conner Shaw near the top of the box and Shaw scored to give the Scarlet Hawks the 1-0 lead.
• Alex Kern played the first half, without allowing a goal and recorded one save.
• Anastasios Manolis played in the second half, did not record a save but did not allow a goal.
• As time was winding down in the match, Santiago Bartolome scored in the 88th minute thanks to a feed from Oluwaseun Ogunsanya, moving the score to 2-0.

Scarlet Hawk Standouts

• Anthony Olmos recorded two shots (one on goal).
• Bartolome had two shot attempts (both on goal) and scored a goal.
• Shaw recorded his second goal of the season on his only shot of the night.

Up Next

• Illinois Tech returns to action on Saturday, October 6 against the Rockford University Regents at 3:30 p.m. at Sam Greeley Field.