The Alma College men's soccer team hosted their first home match of the season on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 10), falling to Aquinas by a 3-0 margin at Scotland Yard. With the loss Alma drops to 3-1 on the season. Aquinas improves to 3-1 on the year. 

After an Aquinas goal in the fourth minute of the first half Alma found themselves quickly down, 1-0. The Scots led in shots in the first half (7-3) as well as corner kicks (5-0) but were unable to capitalize finishing the first half down 1-0. 

Sophomore Sam Falardeau (Mason, Mich./Mason) and senior Spencer Sandow (Midland, Mich./Midland) both paced the Scots with two shots (one on goal) in the first half. 

The Scots fought back in the second half but Aquinas won the possession battle as they managed to put another ball in the Alma net in the 70th minute. The visitors kept the pressure up and scored one more time in the 80th minute to increase the lead to 3-0.

Senior Ryan Schoonover (Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven) led the way for Alma with two shots, both of them being on goal. The Scots finished the day with 13 shots (five on goal) and tallied seven corner kicks.

Alma will begin conference play Wednesday (Sept. 16) as they travel down to Holland, Mich. to take on Hope College. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m.

QUOTES

on the day... 

"We had some new guys in the line up today. We are trying to work on some of those guys as we move in to the conference, to give them some quality minutes today was crucial. I think in today's game we got exactly what we wanted to get out of it, minus the result. We can take this and move forward with it. I think it'll make us better in the long run."

"Yes, it was our first loss of the year, but these guys have faced adversity and they will bounce back and be ready. This was a good game to play before conference starts up. These guys were faster and physical, exactly what we need before conference play."