Box Score They lived up to their rating. A day after Hamline moved into the NSCAA North Region Top Ten rankings, the Hamline men's soccer team showed it belonged with a 1-0 win at Concordia in the MIAC opener for both teams. Junior Salguero-Solis scored the only goal of the game and a tight Piper defense combined with GK Dean Isaacson to take care of the rest as the Pipers won their fifth straight game, tying the school record. 

HU, one of four MIAC teams in the Top Ten, was rated No. 7 in the poll that came out the day before the game.

Head coach Alex Morawiecki's team set out to justify that rating and earn their first triumph in Moorhead since 2006. (Coincidentally, that is when they had their five game winning streak en route to a 12-win season and a trip to the MIAC playoffs.) Salguero-Solis, a freshman from North St. Paul, Minn. provided the offense with his first college goal at 34:10. New Yang, also a freshman, drew the assist, his first collegiate point. That was it for the offense for the day. The Piper defenders kept the Cobbers at such a distance that Isaacson was called upon to make one save. But that was enough as HU recorded its fourth consecutive shutout. The sophomore netminder has not allowed a goal in his last 345:45 of action, lowering his goals-again mark to 0.56. 

Now 5-1 overall, Hamline steps away from league play for nine days and play a pair of non-conference games. They will host Wis-Superior this Saturday, September 17 at Paterson Field in the second game of a women's-men's doubleheader. Bethany Lutheran comes to Paterson on Monday, September 19 for a 4:00 p.m. game