St. Louis—The University of Missouri-St. Louis men's soccer team dropped a hard-fought contest 2-0 against Maryville on Wednesday night at Don Dallas Field. The Tritons drop to 6-6-3, 5-5-3 GLVC while the Saints improve to 10-4-3, 8-2-3 GLVC.
Maryville scored their first goal in the 13
th minute. Axton Anom slid a ball across the face of the goal that caused problems for the Triton defenders. Yayo Mutombo knocked home the rebound to put the Saints up 1-0.
UMSL had a flurry of chances in the 42
nd minute off a corner kick.
Nico Wingren forced a save out of the Saints goalkeeper and nearly had the rebound, but Asgrimur Vidisson managed to make the reaction save. The ball skipped out to the far post where
Brady Freeman pulled it just off frame thanks to a touch from the goalkeeper.
The Saints added their second goal in the 81
st minute. Jan Fulneck was pulled down in the box, leading to a penalty kick that Jose Vilela converted straight down the middle.
Will Winkler made seven saves in the contest, including one early in the second to keep the Tritons within one.
Wingren led UMSL with four shots, all on target while Freeman finished with three, two on target. The Tritons were outshot in the contest 19-16 but held the edge in shots-on-goal 10-9.
UMSL concludes the regular season on Sunday as it heads down to Rolla, to take on Missouri S&T at 2:30 p.m. at Allgood-Bailey Stadium.
