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Mike Moser
Sarah Macias
Mike Moser (19) and Marc Birkelund celebrate what proved to be Wednesday night's game-winning goal late in the first half.
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Concordia University Irvine CUI (2-2-0, 0-0-0)
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Winner Cal Poly Pomona CPP (5-1-0, 0-0-0)
Concordia University Irvine CUI
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Final
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Cal Poly Pomona CPP
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Team 1 2 F
Concordia University Irvine CUI 0 1 1
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 2 4 6

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Doga Gur, BroncoAthletics.com Contributor

No. 7 Cal Poly Pomona Trounces Concordia Irvine, 6-1, to Complete Perfect Four-Game Home Stand

POMONA, Calif. - The No. 7 Cal Poly Pomona men's soccer team found little resistance in breezing past Concordia University Irvine, 6-1, in non-conference action inside Kellogg Stadium on Wednesday night.

With another resounding win, CPP improves to 5-1. The Broncos were picked to place second in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) this season by league head coaches. Concordia Irvine, favored for seventh in the 14-team Pacific West Conference (PacWest), is 2-2.

Cal Poly Pomona thus wrapped up this season-long four-game home stand at 4-0, sweeping it by an impressive aggregate score of 13-1. The Broncos achieved a season high in goals for the second match in a row, with the six tallies their most ever against Concordia Irvine, and their most since another home romp, 8-0, versus Stanislaus State last Oct. 8.

The home side opened the scoring just before the half-hour mark at 29:51 with junior forwards Mads Frederiksen and Sam Lena setting up junior midfielder Woody Angell for his team-best fourth goal of the campaign and ninth of his career. Frederiksen played Lena into the penalty area on the left side beautifully with a right-footed pass on the ground, with Lena providing the first-timed, left-footed cross that Angell hammered home with his right foot from inside six yards.

Mike Moser came on immediately following that initial tally and doubled the CPP advantage, unassisted, just ahead of the halftime interval at 43:15. The senior midfielder's first goal of the season would ultimately become his second game-winner for the Broncos.

The second half then started with a goal as fifth-year senior playmaker Max Laguna put away a penalty kick for the second game in a row at 49:37 to give him two goals this year and nine for his career.

From there, the rout was on. Moser scored unassisted into the bottom right again in the 61st minute and as a result of his second CPP brace, the native of Switzerland now has seven goals in the Green and Gold.

Cal Poly Pomona's shutout streak was finally snapped at 373:14 when Concordia Irvine earned a penalty-kick try of its own and graduate student forward Rafael Espinoza converted for his first goal of 2024.

The Broncos tacked on two more late ones as true junior reserve striker Jakob Singh scored into the lower left at 79:51, and true freshman forward Hector Arellanes notched his first collegiate goal with only eight ticks left. Singh's was his second on the year and eighth career.

Fourth-year junior goalkeeper Luke Garciduenas, named Tuesday as the CCAA Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career, did not have to make a single save. Neither did redshirt freshman University of San Diego transfer Cody Lindeman, who took over in the 65th minute to make his college debut and saw out the rest of the contest in the CPP net. The Golden Eagles also split goalie duties, with senior starter Andre Flores collecting four stops and true freshman Sebastian Marin adding a pair over the final 33:21 in his college debut.

CPP produced a season high in shot attempts for the fourth consecutive contest, reaching the 20 mark for the first time in 2024, a season-best 12 of them on frame. Concordia had just five shots, with one on target.


Up Next
Cal Poly Pomona concludes its seven-game 2024 non-conference slate at CCAA and area rival Cal State San Bernardino (2-1-2) this Saturday afternoon, Sept. 28. Kickoff at Premier Field is set for 12:30 p.m., with a live video stream available through FloSports. The sides will contest their league matchup in Pomona to round out the regular season on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m.


Bronco Bits
  • CPP is 56-16-18 (.722) overall under sixth-year (fifth season) head coach Matt O'Sullivan, who on Sunday, Sept. 22, took over the No. 1 position in the program record book for wins.
  • The Broncos are 3-1 against PacWest opposition following their final regular-season matchup of 2024.
  • O'Sullivan sent out the exact same 11 for the second straight game for the first time this season.
  • Including postseason tiebreakers, Max Laguna is a perfect four-for-four from the penalty spot as a collegian.
  • Luke Garciduenas still has a personal shutout streak going of 359:42.
  • CPP earned a season-high nine corner kicks for the second game in a row.
  • CUI still leads the all-time series, 5-3, with the Broncos 2-3 against the Golden Eagles in Pomona and 2-2 under O'Sullivan.
  • CPP had won 3-0 in Irvine in 2022 (Garciduenas with the clean sheet) after three successive 3-2 losses from 2018-21.
  • CPP is 71-23-16 as a nationally-ranked program since 2002, including 33-10-15 under O'Sullivan and 5-1 in 2024.
  • The Broncos' current national rank of No. 7 is their season best.