Guffroy leads men’s soccer to home victory

ST. PAUL, Minn. – St. Thomas Men's Soccer (2-0-1) continued its hot start to 2025 with a 2-1 victory over the Utah Tech Trailblazers (0-1-2) on Thursday afternoon at South Field. Chance Therrien scored his first career goal and Mathis Guffroy sliced the game winner in with under 10 minutes to play.

Scoring Summary
First Half
-Chance Therrien scored his first career goal in his 14^th game in the 36^th minute to break the Tommies' home scoreless streak of 515 minutes dating back to October 9 of last season.
Second Half
-Utah Tech struck for their lone goal in the 77^th minute to knot the game up at one goal apiece.
-Mathis Guffroy scored his second goal of the season (and team-leading 5^th and 6^th points) from Tommy Kniser in the 84^th minute on a top-shelf beauty to the lefthand corner to put the Tommies out in front.

Quick Hits
-Simon Klevberg, Merrick Schaefer, Mathis Guffroy, Ronan Selbo, Baraka Kania, and Gabriel Verona all played 90 minutes. Jorge Pacheco led all players off the bench with 43 minutes.
-Guffroy led the Tommies with three shots on goal, and the Toms outshot the Trailblazers 12-6 (6-3 on goal).
-Merrick Schaefer received the only yellow card for the Tommies, the Blazers were handed three yellows and one red (in the 53^rd minute).
-Tommy Kniser's assist was the first of his season and second of his career.
-Moritz Krenc made two saves on three shots on goal enroute to his second win of the season between the posts.

Tommie Tidbits
-This is the longest unbeaten streak to begin a season of the DI era (three games, 2-0-1).
-It has taken Mathis Guffroy just three games to tally six points, he is the quickest to six points in program history. The next-quickest was Faris Colic in 2024, it took him six games.
-Chance Therrien's first career goal came on his first career shot on goal.
-Gabriel Verona and Ronan Selbo have each played in all 270 minutes this season.
-The Tommies have won two games in a row just two times before and have a chance to match their DI program's best winning streak on Sunday (three games, set back in 2021).
-St. Thomas is 4-2-1 in games in which their opposition receives a red card in the DI era.

Quoting Coach Lowery
"It was not a complete game but we learned a lot about ourselves and responded well to an adverse situation late in the game. We found the moment we needed to win it, a great quality from within the group that we can take forward."

Up Next
The Tommies begin a three-game road trip spanning 15 days with a non-conference matchup in Chicago against the DePaul Blue Demons on Sunday, August 31 at 1:00 p.m. They are 0-1-1 against DePaul in the DI era.

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Team Stats

Mathis Guffroy

Chance Therrien

Tommy Kniser

Yanis Lakhlifi

Players Mentioned

Faris Colic

Mathis Guffroy

Baraka Kania

Simon Klevberg

Tommy Kniser

Moritz Krenc

Jorge Pacheco

Merrick Schaefer

Ronan Selbo

Chance Therrien

Gabriel Verona

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