Spartans Beat #18 St. Francis & #15 Bucknell At Julian Fraser MemorialSpartans Beat #18 St. Francis & #15 Bucknell At Julian Fraser Memorial
Terrell Lloyd

Spartans Beat #18 St. Francis & #15 Bucknell At Julian Fraser Memorial

San Jose, Calif.—-#13 San Jose State won both of their games on the last day of the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament. The first match was a 12-7 non-conference win against #18 St. Francis. The top scorer of this match was Giacomo Lovatelli leading the team with three goals. 

    St. Francis scored the only goal in the first quarter but Ethan Koch scored the first goal for the Spartans one minute into the second quarter. Ary Kamen scored the next goal putting San Jose State in the lead until St. Francis scored two more goals. Nick Marchione tied the score for the second time and after another St. Francis goal Lovatelli's first goal ending the first half in a tie. Niels Hofmeijer and Neil Arnett start off the third quarter by each scoring a goal. St. Francis scored another goal followed by Lovatelli's second goal of the match and then two more goals were scored by St. Francis tying the game. Hofmeijer broke the tie scoring a goal with 33 seconds left in the quarter. The Spartans scored four more goals in the fourth quarter ending the game with a 12-7 win for the San Jose State Spartans. 

    Spartan Goalkeeper Yahav Fire was credited with 13 saves. 

San Jose State traveled to Santa Clara for their 11-10 non-conference win against #15 Bucknell. Finn Pardon was the top scorer for the Spartans with five goals, four of them in the three overtime periods including the game-winner. 

    The Spartans scored three goals in the first quarter. San Jose State scored two more goals in the beginning of the second quarter followed by Bucknell's first and second goal of the match. Giacomo Lovatelli scored the last goal of the half leaving the score 6-2 Spartans.

     Bucknell scored two goals in the third quarter with the score 6-4 Spartans going into the fourth quarter. San Jose State's Harry Nixon was the first to score in the fourth quarter followed by three Bucknell goals sending the match into the first overtime period tied at 7-7.

     San Jose State scored the first goal and Bucknell scored a goal shortly after keeping the score tied, 8-8, going into the second overtime period. Each team scored twice in the second 3:00 overtime period with Pardon scoring both times for the Spartans. Pardon scored the game winning goal for San Jose State in the first sudden victory overtime period at the 2:03 mark. 

    Spartan goalkeeper Yahav Fire was credited with 15 saves and which included blocking four 5-meter shots.

    The Spartans will return to action Saturday November 2 against Pepperdine. 

#18 St. Francis (16-8)        1-3-3-0=7

#13 San Jose State (6-13)    0-4-4-4=12

Scoring Summary

St. Francis- Ivan Stefanovic(3), Vladimir Mickic(2), William Lapkin(1), Boris Posavec(1).

San Jose State- Giacomo Lovatelli(3), Niels Hofmeijer(2), Finn Pardon(1), Nick Marchione(1), Ary Kamen(1), Ashley Castle(1), Neil Arnett(1), Adam Bado(1), Ethan Koch(1).

Ejections

St. Francis-17

San Jose State- 13

Goalkeeper Saves

St. Francis- Victor Klauzer, 8; Benedek Molnar, 1.

San Jose State- Yahav Fire, 13

#15 Bucknell (15-7) 0-2-2-3-1-2-0=10

#13 San Jose State (7-13) 3-2-0-2-1-2-1=11

Scoring Summary

Bucknell- Rade Joksimovic(4), Jared Stanley(3), Logan Schofield(2), Andu Vlasceanu(1).

San Jose State- Finn Pardon(5), Marc Weber(2), Niels Hofmeijer(1), Ethan Koch(1), Giacomo Lovatelli(1).

Ejections

Bucknell- 5

San Jose State- 11