No. 5 Statesmen take advantage of early opportunities in No. 20 Pride 2-0 loss

DUBUQUE, Iowa - Welcoming their second NAIA top-10 ranked team into Burrows Field this season, the No. 20 Clarke University men's soccer team was unable to keep their shutout streak alive and lost their first game of the 2025 season in a 2-0 loss to No. 5 William Penn University on Tuesday evening.

The Statesmen were able to strike early and twice within the first 20 minutes of the game when they got out to the 1-0 lead within the first minute of the game on Jaime Rozalen's first goal of the season just 56 seconds into the game when he collected a headed throw in and beat CU keeper Lucas Fontana inside the right post.

About 19 minutes later, Albert Feixas doubled the WPU lead when he found himself open in the box where he would get his head to a Will Couch cross for his second goal of the season to make it a 2-0 game, where that score would hold for the reamining 70 minutes of the game.

The Pride would take final two shots of the half after the second William Penn goal but only one of those shots would go on frame to challenge Statesmen keeper Ryan Walsh-Rowe as he would finish the game making six saves on the day for the clean sheet with Fontana making the same amount of saves, all in the second half, on the eight total shots on goal that he faced.

Hector Medrana and Alvaro Martinez took the most shots on goal for CU with two apiece while Yuto Nishio was the only other member of the Pride lineup to that multiple shots in the game, but all were unable to break through to find the back of the yet.

Clarke men's soccer will remain on their home turf for their next game as they will host another NAIA ranked opponent when No. 14 Missouri Valley College will visit Dubuque for a 3:00 p.m. CT scheduled start on Saturday, Sept. 13.