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11/06/06
Eckert has finishing kick
The first day of November was a day that held a lucky finishing touch by the SAU men's soccer team. The higher seeded Iowa Wesleyan College was stopped in their tracks as just 26 seconds into overtime, SAU senior Rob Eckert knocked in the winning penalty kick. MORE >>

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• '06 Bees hoping to write the history books
  

News: The Fighting Bees have been eagerly awaiting this season’s commencement since playing in the regional semi-final last year. The experienced 2006 team now knows what it takes to be compete on the national level, and that knowledge will help them this season as they will be playing four teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation.

The varsity returns four seniors and two juniors from a year ago, while the sophomore class will dominate playing time, as they bring back several players who had a lot of varsity experience last year. The Fighting Bees will be looking to their talented newcomers to have an immediate impact.

In succession each of the last four seasons have been the best in the school’s soccer history, and the team goals this year are to make history once again, by achieving national recognition. With pre-season underway, the coaching staff is convinced that this year’s Bees squad will field the best team SAU has ever seen.

• Bees end regular season with win
  

News: With a win over Judson, the SAU men’s soccer team ended the regular season unbeaten at home. Coming into the match Judson was ranked 1st in the region and 20th in the nation. Judson scored the first goal in the 27th minute of the match, but the Bees responded shortly after, as Clint Mattingly scored a remarkable free kick from 20 yards out.

At half the teams were deadlocked at one goal each. Greg Lehman gave SAU the lead 2-1 with a goal, assisted by Clint Mattingly in the first five minutes of the second half. In the 70th minute Lehman scored another goal to put the bees up 3-1. The scoring continued when Carlos Guillen of Judson scored to bring them back within one goal. Senior, Tom Hein scored for the Bees just two minutes later to assure the win. Defensively Chad Rhoades, Jake Yarnel, and Garet Alderson led the team to a victory allowing only 11 shots on goal.

• SAU finishes second in conference
  

News: After the victory against Viterbo, the SAU men's soccer team won the next three conference games to up their record to 8-6-2 overall and end conference 5-1-1. On October 8^th the Bees defeated Waldorf with a score of 17-1. Next the Bees faced Mount Mercy. Clint Mattingly scored two goals, and had two assists, and SAU keeper Nick Rojas recorded the shut out for the Bee’s 5-0 victory. The last conference game of the regular season ended with a win over Ashford College with a score of 5-0. Rob Eckert, and Greg Lehman each had two goals and senior, Nick Rojas recorded back to back shut outs for the SAU. The Bee’s ended the regular season of play second in conference.

• Bees buzz by Viterbo
  

News: The stinging started early for the Bees with two goals in the first 5 minutes of play, Greg Lehman scored in at 2 minutes off an assist from Max Muchow. In the 5^th minute Chad Rhoades scored the bee’s second goal with an assist from Clint Mattingly. At 13:00, Mattingly himself scored with a Dustin Freeman assist.  In the second half, the Bees scored another 3 goals.  Muchow assisted for a 2^nd time for Mattingly’s 2^nd goal in the 42^nd minute, Nick Abraham crossed one in for Tom Hein at 77:00, and Mike Schuenemann fed Ryan Davis for a late goal with five minutes to play.  GK Nick Rojas notched his 3^rd shut-out of the year.