{"id":2055099,"date":"2025-09-28T02:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055099"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:23:22","slug":"mens-soccer-battles-royals-to-asun-opening-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mens-soccer-battles-royals-to-asun-opening-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer Battles Royals to ASUN Opening Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-text-aside\" aria-label=\"Related Sport Links\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game hide-on-small-down\">\n<div class=\"postgame_1-2_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-logo\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/images\/logos\/Oral_Roberts_200x200.png\" alt=\"Oral Roberts\"\/>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n<h2>Next Game:<\/h2>\n<p>at Oral Roberts<\/p>\n<p>9\/30\/2025 | 7 P.M.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postgame_3_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-primary\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 30 (Tue) \/ 7 P.M.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/images\/logos\/Oral_Roberts_200x200.png\" alt=\"Oral Roberts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-text--atVs\">at<\/span>\u00a0<span>Oral Roberts<\/span>&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/opponent-history\/oral-roberts\/57\">History <span class=\"sidearm-icon sf-play-by-play-alt-minimal\"\/><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>     &#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p>                    <strong>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 <\/strong>The Central Arkansas men&#8217;s soccer team battled to a draw to start ASUN play, dueling the Royals of Queens to a 1-1 score.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/maxim-sheenkov\/9908\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"9908\">Maxim Sheenkov<\/a><\/dfn> scored the lone goal for the Bears, equalizing right before halftime to get Central Arkansas a point in the early ASUN table. The Bears move to 1-5-2 overall on the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nQueens burst out of the gate, scoring in just the fourth minute to snag an early lead. The home team continued to apply pressure, seeking an early advantage even after scoring. <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/devonte-richards\/9905\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"9905\">Devonte Richards<\/a><\/dfn> provided the first on-target threat of the night for the Bears, putting a shot on goal in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> minute, but the Royals keeper parried it to keep the Bears scoreless.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe sides went back and forth over the first half, pushing the ball forward into dangerous spots, but defenses and keepers were locked in, repelling all comers as attacks continued flying both ways. With just a few minutes before half, <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/aby-gomez\/9919\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"9919\">Aby Gomez<\/a><\/dfn> punched a shot from left to right, but bounced it off the post. Sheenkov, however, was right there, corralling it and finishing past the Queens keeper to level the score at the break.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter halftime, Central Arkansas controlled much of the possession, searching for a gap in the defense to take advantage of. <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/noa-bamballi\/10649\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10649\">Noa Bamballi<\/a><\/dfn>, in particular, put a ton of pressure along the left side of the attack, dribbling time after time into the box, but the Queens defense did a good job bending without breaking, repeatedly sending the ball out for the Bears to rebuild the attack.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nQueens countered midway through the second half, but were largely unable to create too many threats that put the Bears in too many difficult positions. Still missing some starters, the Bears defense kept the Royals mostly to the wings, limiting the home team to wide-angled shots that never really tested <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/merrick-cook\/10648\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10648\">Merrick Cook<\/a><\/dfn> in goal. The best chances of the second half for Queens came with less than four minutes to go, when the home side got back-to-back point blank looks that Cook stopped, essentially icing the match at a draw. <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucasports.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/pietro-fontana\/9896\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"9896\">Pietro Fontana<\/a><\/dfn> put one last shot on goal with seconds left, but it went straight to the Royals keeper.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears dip back out of non-conference on Tuesday, facing off with Oral Roberts at 7 p.m. in Tulsa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ucasports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Oral Roberts 9\/30\/2025 | 7 P.M. &#13; Sep. 30 (Tue) \/ 7 P.M.&#13; &#13; at\u00a0Oral Roberts&#13; History &#13; CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 The Central Arkansas men&#8217;s soccer team battled to a draw to start ASUN play, dueling the Royals of Queens to a 1-1 score. \u00a0 Maxim Sheenkov scored the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}