On a beautiful first day of September at Yurcak Field under a cloudless evening sky, the No. 9 Scarlet Knights matched up against their Philly neighbors to the south, the Temple Owls. Not quite sure how the Knights fell from No. 3 to No. 9 in the polls without losing last week but this was a point of contention throughout the broadcast from the perplexed Big Ten announcers
1st Half Action
Nine minutes into the match, high-energy fan favorite Sam Kroeger opened the scoring with a powerful header in front of net off a well-placed corner by Becci Fluchel.