Men’s Soccer
The Sharks suffered a loss to the Mississippi College in the season opener on Aug. 30. Sophomore Sebastian Loibl scored his first goal as a Shark in the 63 minute of the game. The Sharks outshot Mississippi College by a 20-14 margin with Loibl and graduate student, Bradley Fountain, recording three shots on goal to lead the offensive.
On Sept. 1 the Sharks beat Delta State 5-1. One minute and 46 seconds into the game, Loibl scored to give the Sharks a head start. Moments later, freshman Aleks Berg, earned his first career goal as a Shark to lead the Sharks 2-1 in the first five minutes of the game. Later, Liobl bagged another goal followed by Fountain and senior, Darwin Lom. Lom recorded his first goal of the season with an assist by freshman, Michael Lawrence.
Women’s Soccer
On Aug. 31, the No. 23 Sharks suffered a loss 3-2 against Tusculum in the season opener. Tusculum came out the gate with two goals in the first 15 minutes of the game. In the 41 minute of the game, junior Hannah Christophe passed to junior Anetra Byfield who scored the first goal for the Sharks. Approximately 15 minutes later junior Alexys Nowak scored herself a goal to settle the score 3-2.
The Sharks secured a knockout win against King on Sept. 1. Two minutes into the match senior Jemma House stole a pass and scored the first goal for the Sharks. Moments later, freshman Dejah Holman answered with her first career goal with the Sharks and fellow freshman Morgan Masters followed suit to lead the team 3-0. Right after halftime, Holman earned her second goal of the match. House then added the final score of the night at the 80 minute mark securing a 5-0 win for the Sharks.
Women’s Volleyball
Last Friday, the Sharks fell to Missouri S&T at the opening match of the 11th annual Shark Invitational. In the first set, a kill by senior Sydney Lemon gave NSU the biggest lead of the match at 22-12. Seniors Denvyr Tyler-Palmer and Kim Blasko scored their own kills which left NSU with its only win for the match.
The Sharks earned the first win of the season against Babson on Sept. 1. In Set 1, kills by Tyler-Palmer and senior Samantha Blasko led the sharks to a 25-17 win. In the second set, the Sharks scored a game-high of 21 kills. Tyler-Palmer and senior Kim Plasko kept the lead of 17-9. NSU earned three kills by Tyler-Palmer, Sam Blasko and graduate student Leslie Atherton to finish the set ad 25-20. In the third, NSU caught an early 6-1 lead.The sharks earned it’s largest lead of the set with a block from Sam Blasko and senior Maddie Uilk to take the match with a final of 25-17 to win the match.
Later in the afternoon, the sharks sweeped again on the final day of the Shark Invitational against Texas A&M International. The Sharks started the set until a kill by Kim Blasko to give 12-7 lead finishing off on top at 25-13. In the second set, NSU fell behind but it didn’t last long as Tyler-Palmer and errors by Texas put the Sharks back on top 15-14. Texas ended up taking the set 25-19. In the third set, the Sharks fired back with kills by Tyler-Palmer, sophomore Maya Patterson and Blasko giving the Sharks a lead 15-12. Later the sharks put together four straight points to finish the set with a 25-22 win. In the final set the Sharks started an early 10-5 lead. After a service error and Texas gaining back a few points NSU finished the match off with a 25-12 win, outscoring them 14-5.
