This past week, the MTA Soccer Lions had their first game of the season, facing long-time rival and last year’s Yeshiva League champion, SAR. However, the Lions were not intimidated by their foes, and “kicked off” the game by scoring in the first five seconds on a goal by Ariel Feuerstein with an assist by David Pando. After 15 minutes of intense soccer play, the first period ended with MTA trailing by a score of 5-2. The second period did not look promising after the first few minutes, and the Lions found themselves down. However, the team quickly recovered by switching up the defense and proceeded to hold off SAR from scoring for a solid ten minutes after halftime. Unfortunately, that did not last the entire period, and the SAR Sting managed to score four times, to pull away for the win. Despite their loss, the Lions are proud of their accomplishments—particularly keeping the game so close between them against one of the best teams in the league, and would like to give a shout-out to Ariel Feuerstein for five points, Shimmy Mandelbaum for one, and to goalie Sam Weissman for his incredible performance.

By David Pando