Offense Continues to Roll as UChicago Earns Road Win at Kalamazoo
The 20th-ranked University of Chicago men's soccer team earned a 4-2 win over Kalamazoo in their first road trip of the season.
The Hornets took the early advantage in the non-conference contest as UChicago surrenderred a penalty kick less than five minutes into the game to give Kalamazoo a quick 1-0 lead. From that point on, it would be all UChicago as the Maroons would outshoot the Hornets 28-6.
After forcing three saves from the Kalamazoo keeper over the next five minutes, the Maroons would strike back as Vaughn DeRath launched a long throw-in that was mishandled by the Kalamazoo keeper, falling to the foot of Chase Perry who tapped in the equalizer.
Despite outshooting Kalamazoo 17-1 in the opening half, the two teams went into the locker room deadlocked at one. Less than ten minutes into the second half, UChicago finally found the go-ahead goal when Preston Samtani cut back at the end line and found a slicing Edward Wu in the six-yard box for the goal and a 2-1 UChicago advantage.
The Maroons found an insurance goal in the 60th minute when Wu cut back a ball to the corner of the 18 on a set piece to find DeRath who fired a slice to the upper 90 far post, leaving Kalamazoo no chance for a save to take a 3-1 lead.
In the 75th minute, UChicago put the final nail in the coffin as Samtani found Giovanni Caselli on the far side who crossed one perfectly into the box to the foot of an cutting Juan Carlos Bermudez who tapped it on for the fourth goal of the contest.
The Hornets would get one back in the 78th minute on their second penalty kick goal of the game, but UChicago would hold on for the 4-2 victory after outshooting Kalamazoo 28-6.
With the win, the Maroons improve to 4-1 overall this season.Â