Men's Soccer Falls at Augie 2-0 on Wednesday

Garibay Makes Five Saves in Loss

by Nathan Baliva

MONMOUTH, Ill. (09/23/2021) — The Monmouth College men's soccer team traveled to the Quad Cities on Wednesday and fell to Augustana College 2-0. The Scots are now 0-4-2 on the season and they next play in the Midwest Conference opener on Saturday.

The game was scoreless for nearly 40 minutes before the Vikings found the back of the net at 39:49. Augustana doubled the lead less than four minutes later with a backbreaking second goal just 91 seconds before the halftime whistle. They outshot the Scots 7-3 in the first half and had the only corner kick in the first 45.

Augustana pressed for a third goal as they took eight shots in the second half and had three corner kicks. Marcos Garibay (Waukegan, Illinois) stood strong in goal with five total saves, four in the second half, to keep the Scots down 2-0.

Monmouth got just one shot in the second half and put three shots on goal for the game. Andre Mykelbust (Cambridge, Wisconsin) had two of the shots on goal while James Azzi (Sydney, Australia) had the third.

MONMOUTH MOMENTS: Garibay, Jaxon Coleman (Washington, Illinois), Tanner Viren (East Moline, Illinois) and Reid Sondgeroth (Mapleton, Illinois) played all 90 minutesThe Scots played five off the bench including Erik Sikorski (Monmouth, Illinois) who made his 2021 debut on Tuesday in the loss at Wisconsin-WhitewaterThe Scots head into MWC play on Saturday with a 1:30 p.m. kickoff at home against Cornell.