A goal and an assist from Justus Kauppinen spelled doom for Marquette men’s soccer on Wednesday night at Valley Fields as the Golden Eagles took a 2-1 loss to Xavier Musketeers. MU is now 4-5-1 overall and 1-2-1 in Big East play after starting the season ranked in the United Soccer Coaches top 25 poll.
It’s a bad loss in a couple of ways. The first one is in the “how did this match play out” kind of way. Kauppinen scored XU’s first goal of the match in the 24th minute on a shot that appeared to get deflected by a Marquette defender.