Jackets Go Down, 4-0 (9/1/06)
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BILLINGS, MT – The Montana State-Billings men’s soccer team opened the season at home with a loss Friday to No. 19 nationally ranked University of the Incarnate Word.  The Jackets fell 4-0 and are 0-2-2 on the season.  The Cardinals improved to 2-0-0.

Heartland Conference opponent Incarnate Word overtook the young Yellowjacket team in the second half of play.  The Jackets kept the nationally ranked Cardinals to just one goal in the first half, but unraveled in the second conceding three goals.

At the 10:34 mark the Cardinals’ Estaban Bayona took a high ball from teammate Kyle Gillespy for a header into the Jackets’ net.  In the second half, Incarnate Word scored three goals in a matter of 22 minutes.  Leading scorer Danny Juarez picked up his third goal of the season following Tom Morrill’s attempt to score. Goalkeeper Sander Tollefson (Missoula, MT) knocked the ball down allowing Juarez to tap it in off the rebound.  On the next goal, Juarez picked up an assist passing a short cross off the right side to teammate John Ballantyne for the goal at 79:46.  With just 2:47 to play, Ballantyne placed a corner kick in front of the net as Ian Ankney scored the final goal of the game. 

“We played well in the first half and the team did what I wanted them to,” said Yellowjacket head coach Dan McNally.  “Unfortunately our lack of experience showed in the second half and it hurt us.  We have a very young team that is learning all the time.  Sam Charles (Chiswell, England) and Chris Cornish (Surrey, England) played very well.  We now just need to regroup for our game against St. Mary’s on Sunday.”

The Jackets managed just four shots to the Cardinals' 22 with Tollefson making seven saves off 11 Cardinal shots on goal.

The Yellowjackets host Heartland Conference opponent St. Mary’s (1-0-1) on Sunday, September 3 at College of Technology Field.  Kickoff is 11:00 a.m.