Box Score
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — St. Mary's Men's Soccer opened up the 2013 season with a 3-0 defeat against Colorado-Colorado Springs on Thursday.
The Mountain Lions (1-0) struck once in the first half and twice more in the second before 106 fans, downing the Rattlers (0-1) in just the third meeting between the schools.
Rattlers goalkeeper
Patrick Kasperitis (RS-Sr., Corpus Christi, Texas) made four saves in the net, but it wasn't enough against a UCCS offensive attack that outshot the Rattlers 17-11. James Roberts scored on a header in the 13
th minute, while reserve Jr Calhoun connected on two second-half goals to ice the game.
Redshirt-freshman midfielder
Alex Gonzalez (McAllen, Texas) led the Rattlers with three shots, two of which were on goal.
St. Mary's will be back in action in Colorado on Saturday, taking on Regis at 3 p.m. in Denver.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.rattlerathletics.com.
