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MUSTANG SOCCER The 2020-21 Morningside College soccer home regular-season schedule concludes this evening at Elwood Olsen Stadium. Head coach Tom Maxon’s Mustangs are coming off an impressive weekend. The men out-scored the opposition 13-1 in road wins at the University of Jamestown and Presentation College, and the women blanked the Jimmies 1-0. This evening, the women (8-1-1 overall, 7-1-1 Great Plains Athletic Conference) put a six-match win streak on the line against Hastings College. The Broncos sport a 9-2 overall and 7-2 conference record. Mside’s men welcome Concordia University. The Maroon and Bulldogs are both part of a fourway tie for first in the conference, with Morningside sitting at 7-2 overall and 6-1 in the league and CU harboring an 8-2-1 overall and 6-1-1 GPAC mark.
MUSTANG MARKS Maxon was looking for a rebound from the defending champions on Nov. 7 and 8. He and his staff got that --- and more. Taking a road trip to the conference’s landmass’s northern regions, the Mustangs out-scored UJ and PC by 12 goals in 180 minutes of play. They opened the blitzkrieg with a 6-0 victory at UJ Saturday and then added to it with four goals in the first 45 Sunday en route to a rousing 7-1 win over Presentation. Junior forward Okan Golge couldn’t have had much better of a 48 hours. He struck the Jimmies defense for two goals and an assist and then added four more goals, including the first three Morningside scored at Saints Soccer Field. He wasn’t the only one getting in on a 17-2 shot advantage. Freshman midfielder/forward Victor Beker notched a goal and two assists an afternoon after posting a five-point outing at Jamestown (two goals and an assist). The impressive offensive output made things simple for the Maroon defense. Junior goalkeeper Tobias Sadler made the most of his starting chance in Aberdeen, going 90 minutes with just one score allowed en route to his first victory of the year and moving his career mark to 6-0. At the same time, he and sophomore Bjarne Huth shared the shutout in North Dakota. Golge’s school-record-tying output over the weekend launched him into the top 10 of five National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ statistical top 10. His 15 total goals and four game-winning strikes are second-highest, and his 34 total and 3.78 points per contest stand third and seventh. He’s also seventh in goals per match (1.67). Senior goalkeeper Alexandra Homan stood tall again for the Mustangs women’s team this past weekend. She forged her fifth shutout of the season and sixth of her career, tallying six saves.