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‘Runners, Rangers, Mines win; Grizzlies, too
Metro State and Fort Lewis players collide during their showdown in Denver on Friday. The Roadrunners went on to beat the defending national champions 3-0. (Photograph by Jane Wycoff/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Two bitter rivals met in Denver on Friday afternoon, while the conference-leading Orediggers picked up another win, and the Regis Rangers stayed close in the men’s soccer RMAC battle.
But, the day’s historic win came in Lakewood, Colorado, as the fledgling Adams State College Grizzlies delivered the first win in the program’s history.
Metro State 3, Fort Lewis 0: In a battle of two teams that actively dislike one another, the Roadrunners proved inhospitable hosts on Friday scoring early and often against the Skyhawks.
Scott Crawford scored off a rebound in the 2nd minute to give Metro State the lead. In the 43rd minute, Steven Emory collected a lob from Andrew Meija and fired it home. In the 72nd minute, Steven Emory intercepted a pass and sent it forward to Walter Bertini, who knocked in the final tally.
Metro State improved to 9-3-2, 6-2-2 RMAC. Fort Lewis, which beat the Roadrunners in Durango a week earlier, slipped to 9-5-0, 8-2-0 RMAC.
Mines 4, Colorado-Colorado Springs 0: The No.1-ranked Orediggers continued their conference domination on Friday, blanking the Mountain Lions on the strength of four first-half goals.
Baski Baker scored the first goal in the 5th minute, and then it became the Tesho Akindele show. Akindele scored in the 9th, 23rd and 31st minutes to complete his hat trick. Manville Strand picked up the shutout in goal for Mines.
The Orediggers improved to 12-0-1, 9-0-1 RMAC. UCCS fell to 2-11-1, 1-8-1 RMAC.
Regis 4, CSU-Pueblo 1: The Rangers earned a comfortable home win on the strength of braces from Kyle Emge and Nduo Chilaka.
Brandon Herre earned the visiting Thunderwolves a measure of respect with his goal in the 80th minute.
The Rangers moved to 10-1-2, 6-1-2 RMAC. CSU-Pueblo dropped to 7-7-0, 6-4-0 RMAC.
Adams State 3, Colorado Christian 1: The Grizzlies took out some of their growing pains on CCU on Friday, pounding the Cougars for Adams State’s first win in program history.
The visiting Grizzlies (1-11-0, 1-8-0 RMAC) turned Colorado Christian’s (1-13-0, 1-9-0 RMAC) Lakewood field into the land of payback. CCU narrowly beat Adams State in Alamosa on Sept. 19 with a goal in the final 19 seconds of the second overtime period.
The Grizzlies didn’t allow for the possibility of any late-game heroics on Friday. Peter Freeman scored in the 11th minute off a pass from Hawken Hanna. In the 57th minute, Joseph Jallow found David Powers, who doubled the margin. Jallow added an insurance goal in the 79th minute.
Grant Terzian narrowed the margin with an unassisted goal in the 81st minute, but that was the extent of the Cougars comeback.
‘Keeper Paul Pizza earned the first win in the two-year-old program’s history.
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