Men's Soccer Exhibition Recap (Aug. 24)

Summit League men’s soccer teams wrapped up exhibition play this weekend with a quartet of Saturday games. Below are results and recaps.

Saturday, Aug. 24
Dayton 2, EASTERN ILLINOIS 1 | Recap
WESTERN ILLINOIS 3, Western Michigan 1 | Recap
No. 11 New Mexico 1, DENVER 0 | Recap
Valparaiso 2, FORT WAYNE 1 | Recap
 
The regular season begins Friday, Aug. 30. During the exhibition slate, Summit League teams finished with the following records:
 
Oral Roberts                     2-1
Western Illinois                 1-1
Eastern Illinois                  1-2
Denver                              0-1
Fort Wayne                       0-2
IUPUI                                0-1-1
Omaha                              0-1-1

Men's Soccer Exhibition Recaps (Aug. 23)

Omaha's Vance Rockwood

Friday night saw a trio of Summit League teams take the field in men’s soccer exhibitions. The highlight of the night was Omaha’s 1-1 draw against No. 6 Creighton before over 3,000 spectators. Oral Roberts notched a 4-1 victory over Northeastern State, ranked No. 14 in Division II.

Oral Roberts 4, Northeastern State 1 | Recap

Omaha 1, No. 6 Creighton 1 | Recap

SIUE 1, IUPUI 0 | Recap

Men's Soccer Exhibition Recap (Aug. 20)

A trio of Summit League teams were in exhibition action Tuesday night. Oral Roberts scored a victory while Fort Wayne fell to Ohio State and Eastern Illinois to Butler. Below are complete scores and links to each school's recap.

Tuesday, Aug. 20
Oral Roberts 1, John Brown 0 | Recap
Ohio State 2, Fort Wayne 0 | Recap
Butler 4, Eastern Illinois 0 | Recap

Women's Soccer Exhibition Scoreboard (Aug. 20)

North Dakota State 2, Bemidji State 0
FARGO, N.D. -- (gobison.com) The North Dakota State Bison women's soccer team opened

North Dakota State's Sierra Bonham

the Dacotah Field era in style Tuesday, Aug. 20 in their 2013 home opening exhibition match against Bemidji State, claiming a convincing 2-0 win over the visiting Beavers. Lauren Miller had a goal and assist while Lizzie Lukas scored a goal for the second consecutive match.
Miller scored North Dakota State's first goal in the 29^th minute after blasting the ball from 25 yards out to the lower right corner of the net. It also marked her first goal of the young season.
Lukas added another goal just five minutes later in the 34^th minute when she corralled a short but precise pass in the box from Miller and slid it home to make it 2-0 Bison.

SDSU's Hodges Named Summer League Pitcher of the Year

South Dakota State University right-hander Chad Hodges was named Horizon Air Summer Series Pitcher of the Year during the recently completed collegiate summer league season.

Pitching for the Humboldt (Calif.) Crabs, Hodges compiled a 7-0 record with a 2.46 earned run average in helping the team win its third consecutive Far West League Championship. He struck out 55 batters and walked only 18 in 62 innings pitched.

Omaha's Sami Spenner Breaks Heptathlon Record to Help U.S. Win Thorpe Cup

Sami Spenner broke her own school record in the heptathlon for the second time this year, helping the USA Track & Field team to a win in the annual Thorpe Cup competition between the U.S. and Germany.

The meet features seven women from each country competing head-to-head in the heptathlon and seven men each in the decathlon.

Spenner finished with 5,898 points, beating her previous record of 5,806 to finish fourth overall in the field of 12 athletes. The American women had the top five finishers. The men's team lost to the Germans.

Men's Soccer Exhibition Rundown

Five Summit League men’s soccer teams took to the pitch to open exhibition play this past weekend. Among the highlights was Omaha's record crowd of over 2,500 to see its contest against defending Big Ten co-champion Penn State.

Below are the results and recaps from the weekend exhibition action.

Friday, August 16
Western Illinois 2, Graceland (Iowa) | Recap

Saturday, August 17
Eastern Illinois 4, St. Xavier 2 | Recap
IUPUI 0, Northern Illinois 0 | Recap
Penn State 1, Omaha 0 | Recap

Sunday, August 18
Western Illinois 1, DePaul 0 | Recap
SMU 3, Oral Roberts 1 | Recap

Women's Soccer Exhibition Scoreboard (Aug. 18)

South Dakota's Jenny Teslow

South Dakota 3, Viterbo 0
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Jenny Teslow scored an early goal and freshman Corey Strang netted two goals in a span of four minutes as South Dakota won an exhibition match against Viterbo 3-0 Sunday at USD Soccer Complex. It is the Coyotes’ lone tune-up prior to Friday’s season and home opener against Loyola.

Kansas 1, Omaha 0
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The UNO women's soccer team played its second and final exhibition match on Sunday, falling at Kansas 1-0.

The Jayhawks scored the lone goal of the game on a penalty kick by Liana Salazar in the 20th minute. The Mavs attacked aggressively in the second half in search of an equalizer, registering all five of their shot attempts in the half, but couldn't tie the match.

Women's Soccer Exhibition Scoreboard (Aug. 17)

IUPUI 3, Northern Kentucky 1
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. -- Coming into Saturday's (Aug. 17) exhibition match at Northern Kentucky, women's soccer Head Coach Chris Johnson had hoped for some offensive production and promised that a number of forwards would get their chances to shine. As a result, three different Jaguars dented the net as IUPUI rolled to a 3-1 road win at NKU. 

Fort Wayne 2, Western Michigan 2
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Andie Lazzerini scored twice in just over a minute span, as the IPFW

Mastodons record a 2-2 exhibition draw with the Western Michigan Broncos at the Hefner Soccer Complex on Saturday evening.

Creighton 2, North Dakota State 1
ROSEMOUNT, Minn. -- The North Dakota State women's soccer team saw a 1-0 first half lead disappear in the second half as they fell to the Creighton Bluejays 2-1 in a season-opening exhibition match at Dakota County Technical College on Saturday, Aug. 17. Sophomore Lizzie Lukas scored the lone goal for the Bison.

Texas Tech 1, Denver 0
DENVER -- The University of Denver women’s soccer fell 1-0 to Texas Tech University in an exhibition match on Saturday evening at CIBER Field at University of Denver Stadium.