Cal St. San B'dino CSUSB (5-5-3, 2-4-1)

Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB (9-2-3, 5-1-1)

Cal St. San B'dino CSUSB

(5-5-3, 2-4-1)

Final

Oct. 20, 2023

Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB

(9-2-3, 5-1-1)

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	F
Cal St. San B'dino CSUSB	0	0	0
Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB	0	1	1

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | 10/21/2023 10:29:00 AM | Mike Murphy, CSUSBAthletics.com Contributer

OTTERS 2ND-HALF GOAL JUST ENOUGH TO DEFEAT YOTES IN MEN’S SOCCER, 1-0

SEASIDE – Cal State San Bernardino and Cal State Monterey Bay combined for 31 shots in Friday night’s CCAA conference match, but only one of them got past the goalkeeper to give the 22nd-ranked Otters a 1-0 victory.

SEASIDE – Cal State San Bernardino and Cal State Monterey Bay combined for 24 shots in Friday night's CCAA conference match, but only one of them got past the goalkeeper to give the 22^nd-ranked Otters a 1-0 victory.

The loss was the fourth straight by the Yotes in conference play and the fourth straight time they've been shut out as their 2023 record slipped to 5-5-3 overall and 2-4-1 in the CCAA.

The Otters improved to 9-2-3 on the season and 5-1-1 in CCAA play.

The difference in the game came in the 59^th minute as junior midfielder Janos Kommerling of Dusseldorf, Germany finished off a pass from Roberto Barnegas into the high center of the net against Yotes goalkeeper John Samano.

Samano faced 11 shots by the Otters and saved three shots on goal in the 90-minute match.  His counterpart, sophomore Jack Blickenstaff, faced 13 shots – eight of them in the second half and stopped three that required saving.

The Yotes move on to San Francisco State for a 2 p.m. match Sunday against the Gators in an attempt to reverse the losing streak.

CSUSB had plenty of chances to get the equalizer, particularly in the second half.

Thirty seconds into the second period, Brian Castillo's shot went left of the goal. In the 63^rd minute, Victor Chavez' try was left of the net. In the 72^nd minute, one of five shots tried by Nicklaus Sullivan missed to the right.

Another try by Castillo went over the crossbar in the 73^rd minute. GK Samano saved a shot by the Otters Nathan Padilla in the 77^th minute. A minute later, Samano saved another Otters try by Julian Lomeli.

After the Yotes' Tony Negrete missed on his shot in the 86^th minute, Travis Babineau had a hard shot carom off the crossbar. A last try by Castillo with 46 seconds remaining in the match, missed left of the goal.

Sullivan was credited with five shots in the match, Castillo four, Babineau two and one each by Negrete and Chavez.

It was the Yotes' third straight loss to Monterey Bay and the Otters now lead the series 9-5 with three ties since 2007 and 6-2-3 over the last 11 meetingss.

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