ASU Men’s Soccer Looks to Improve After Rough Start

Tanner Elliott
The Paw Print

The Adams State men’s soccer program has gotten off to a slow star for this season. The 1-4 soccer team has had a rigorous schedule to come out of the chute with. Three of the Grizzlies four losses have come to top 25 ranked opponents: Fort Lewis, Regis, and Midwestern State.  With just one senior on the team, the program has extremely young talent. The men traveled up to Denver on Sept. 28 to faced the 5^th rank team, Regis. Adams had four shots and one shot on goal against the Rangers. Fabian Omana-Marin and Hawken Hanna each had a shot and Andrew Hinkle had two shots and one shot on goal. Goalie Mike Miller from Ontario, Colo. also had five saves. The Regis Rangers had 22 shots and 10 shots on goal. Five individuals on the Regis team had a goal each: Logan Miller, Martin Maybin, Alex Tarnoczi, Adam Tormoehlen, and Robbie McElroy. The Regis Rangers are currently first in the RMAC with eight wins and one loss.
On Sunday, the Midwestern State Mustangs traveled down to Alamosa from Wichita Falls, Texas. Adams held the Mustangs scoreless until the forty-third minute when Aaron Douthit scored. Len Smith added a goal in the fifty-second minute and Ben Clarvis added another in the fifty-fifth minute.
Adams State had seven shots, and two shots on goal. Norberto Lopez and Cody Weisenberger had the only shots on goal for the Grizzly men’s team. Midwestern State had 21 shots and 11 shots on goal. Mike Miller and Jared Wilson split time in the goal, each starting for one half. Also, each keeper had 4 saves. Two goals were scored on Wilson and only one was scored on Miller. Midwestern State’s goalie had two saves in the game.
This will be third year for the team to be coached by Tim Busen. He is originally from Michigan, where he went to Spring Arbor College in Jackson, Mich.. “When I came out here, they told me winning is not what were critiquing you on, this program is based on being an enrollment. It was to bring more students to this camp,” said Busen. “We played Fort Lewis last week and lost 1-0. They are three time national champs in the past four years. They are the best in the country. This program was getting beat 11-0 in the past. So were making big steps progressively. We are a young program, but the amount of success we’ve gained in the period of time we’ve gained here, our athlete department is happy with, our players are happy about it, and other teams in the league are surprised we have gotten this competitive in this short period of time.”
They are two teams within the program, a developmental team and varsity team, but they all train together. Usually, about nineteen players travel out of thirty-six. There will be about six developmental games, and the varsity team will have about twenty-eight games in the year. Any one can join the developmental team, and almost any time of the year.