On Aug. 9 the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) released the 2024 Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Preseason Poll. Out of the 12 teams Doane secured ninth after having a 1-5-5 GPAC record and 3-7-7 overall, which also ended with them having 30 points.
On Aug. 15 the Tigers opened their season at Bellevue against the Bruins. Just three minutes into the game, Bellevue’s Matias Daniel-Doren scored the first goal, and soon after that Bellevue’s Ombeni Mubake scored making the score 2-0.
Following Mubake’s goal was Daniel-Doren’s second goal of the game, followed by Bellevue’s Jeremiah Hteh. Leading into the break the Bruins were up 4-0 for the first half.
Going into the second half of the game, the Bruins secured two more goals, the first one was an own goal, which is when a player accidentally scores a goal for the opposing team, which puts the score at 5-0. Towards the end of the game, Bruins Kevin Becerril scored the last goal for the game which brought the final score to 6-0.
Senior Samuel Montanez, one of the goalkeepers for Doane, finished the first 68 minutes of the game with five saves and sophomore Curtis Oberg had one save in the remaining 22 minutes of the game.
Throughout the game, Doane had a total of five attempted shots which were from junior Isaiah Lohman (1), senior Hugo Santos (1), sophomore Edwin Hernandez Perez (1), and finally junior Fernando Moreno (2). Doane also had two shots on goal, one from Lohman and the other from Moreno.
The Tigers are set to play at home against McPherson on Aug. 21 starting at 7 p.m. at Al Papik Field.
