2 weeks Ago By Staff reports
SUPERIOR — The Wisconsin-Superior men's soccer team left no doubts as to their supremacy on Saturday, Oct. 26, dominating Martin Luther 10-0 to seal a seventh consecutive Upper Midwest Athletic Conference regular-season championship. UWS racked up 52 shot attempts at Superior Choice Credit Union Stadium, putting 25 of them on target in 90 minutes, while allowing only one off-target shot for the game.
ADVERTISEMENT Freddy Watson opened the scoring with goals 2:19 apart in the sixth and eighth minutes. UWS scored four times in the first half and six in the second, with Jake Kidd and Aaron Shartin-Folkert finishing with a pair. Elijah Aultman (Cloquet-Esko-Carlton) finished off the rout in the 77th minute.
UWS (13-3-2, 12-0 UMAC) still has two regular-season games to go starting with a trip to Northland on Wednesday. WOMEN'S SOCCER Seniors share spotlight in conference clincher Three of UWS's four goals came from seniors on Senior Day as the Yellowjackets clinched a fourth consecutive UMAC championship with a 4-0 home win over Martin Luther. Mya Holmquist put UWS out in front with a sixth-minute goal, while Beth Schneider scored from the penalty spot to make it 2-0 after 41 minutes.
Holmquist struck again in the second half, as did Niya Wilson late. UWS took all 46 shot attempts recorded in the match, putting 19 of them on frame. The Yellowjackets (12-6, 10-1 UMAC) have a nonconference game at St.
Olaf on Tuesday, Oct. 29. ADVERTISEMENT VOLLEYBALL UWS pulls major upset while doing double duty Not only did Wisconsin-Superior record a major upset by taking down No.
18-ranked Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 26 at Mertz Mortorelli Gym, it was their second match of the day after earlier sweeping North Central, also in UMAC play. Counting postseason, the Eagles had a 72-match UMAC winning streak that dated back to an Oct.
1, 2019 loss at St. Scholastica but UWS came away 3-2 (26-24, 17-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-7) victors. After alternating each of the first four sets, UWS jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the decider as Maiana Stark and Sydney Smith had two kills each.
The Yellowjackets never led Northwestern into it, as the Eagles never scored more than two consecutive points. Makenna Hohbein led UWS with 14 kills, while Stark and Smith had 10 apiece. In the back row, Jenna Anderson led all players with 25 digs, while Colleen Claude had 19 and Hohbein 13.
Earlier in the day, UWS swept North Central 25-20, 25-17, 25-13, hitting .323 as a team. Hohbein finished with 14 kills, while Anderson led all players with 15 digs.
UWS (20-6, 9-1 UMAC) has a half-game lead in the league standings with two weekends to go, though both weekends are on the road starting with a Friday, Nov. 1 game at Minnesota Morris..
