The men’s soccer team is off to quite a start coming off of a solid showing at the Swarthmore College Garnet Classic.
They remain unbeaten through their first three games thanks to the combined at- tacking force of juniors Bobby Kane and AJ Bishop.
They downed the heavily favored home team Swarth- more College with a goal from Kane in the second half, which was later, equalized by Swarthmore due to a penalty kick.
Heading into over time Bishop cut through the defense on a long run and scored the winner no more than five minutes into the first over time. That gave Cabrini a 2-1 edge over Swarthmore.
“Scoring a goal like that for your team always feels good,” Bishop, junior psychology major, said. “I knew I was not going to get a lot of opportunities in over time and I was happy to capitalize.”
Bishop was awarded with the student-athlete of the week award after scoring the game winner.
Bishop was not the only one with a big game as CJ Serratore held a goal against ratio of .67 percent for the week earning him CSAC defensive player of the week honors. With all the momentum from the overtime win, the team was eager to get on to the next game. Widener University was the next to step up and try and end the cav’s unbeaten streak. Unfortunately, after two overtimes no winner could not be determined as the match ended 0-0.
The game was very back and forth with the Cavaliers controlling most possession of the game.
“It wasn’t the result we were looking for but to go against two solid teams and leave unbeaten gives us a lot of hope for the season,” Channing Shiffert, junior history major, said.
The Cavaliers are looking forward to what the season holds after these two results. They will still have a tough schedule coming up before the start of conference play.
The men will be in action this Saturday as they face off against Alvernia University on their home turf. The match is slated to begin at 3 p.m. after the alumni game at 12 p.m.
”We are going out to win every game, trying to remain undefeated going into confer- ence play and in the end win the CSAC,” Bishop said.
