THE WORD IS OUT ON THE CAMPUS OF U-V-M THAT VIRTUE FIELD IS THE PLACE TO BE! THE U-V-M MEN’S SOCCER TEAM.. IS BACK INSIDE THE TOP 10 OF THE COACHES POLL.. LOOKING TO GET BACK IN THE TOP 5… AND THEY HAVE A FIMILIAR FOE IN THE BUILDING.. HOFSTRA PRIDE… LOOKING FOR REVENGE FROM LAST SEASONS NCAA TOURNAMENT! BEAUTFUL NIGHT AT AMERICA’S MECCA FOR COLLEGE SOCCER! A SOLD OUT CROWD ON HAND.. WITH AN EPIC STUDENT SECTION.. TO WATCH THE CATS AND PRIDE 1. VERMONT is playing with that first goal.. MAXI KISSELL right in the middle of things.. gets a great look… 2. then a few minutes later.. header is just off.. VERMONT off just a click.. we head into the break scoreless 3. that that would change in the 69th minute.. KISSELL can’t get enough.. but PHILIP HUEHN does! 1-0 UVM on KUEHN’s 3rd of the year! 4. less than 6 minutes later.. HOFSTRA.. looking for the equalizer.. and SAM FRANCOU gets a running start on this shot.. we’re tied. 5. down to the final 10 minutess.. can the CARDIAC CATS do it again? YES THEY CAN! NIELS HARTMAN! OFT INJURED.. BUT STEPPING UP! DELIVERS THE GAME WINNING GOAL! It’S CAREER WIN NUMBER 100 FOR COACH ROB DOW… and HE COULDN”T BE PROUDER OF HIS BOYS <Rob Dow, 100th Career Win vs. Hofstra – “so many of us are counted wrong? I can’t hear right. I guess I’ve had a lot of really good players and coaches help me and support me in that process. So, it’s, it’s a testament to the program more than anything.s”> <Niels Hartman, Scored Game winning goal in 82nd minute – “coach always tells us, you know, we we believed at the end I thought we deserved to win today. I thought we were the better side. We had a lot of chances. But they got the equalizer, you know, quite late. But then, yeah, I thought we deserved to win. And it felt so good to score. First goal of the season. VERMONT IS BACK ON THE ROAD IN THREE BACK ON THE ROAD IN THREE OF THE NEXT FOUR GAMES.. THIS SATURDAY.. CATS ARE IN CONNECTICUT TAKING ON FAIRFIELD.. AND THEN CONFERENCE PLAY BEGINS! FIRST AT HOME AGAINST THEN ON THE ROAD AT NJIT. FROM THE COLLEGE GAME.. TO THE HIGH SCHOOL GAME! WE’RE IN THE HIILLS OF JERICHO! OUR AND THE ESSEX HORNETS ARE LOOKING TO HAND MMU THEIR FIRST LOSS OF THE 2025 SEASON 1. MAX KLEGG is setting up for the best COUGAR look of the first half… but he sails it just high and wide. 2. final minutes of the first half! ESSEX puts a ball in deep and SOPHOMORE KOHEN LINDSAY makes the right move! GAME WINNER IN THE FIRST HALF! ESSEX HOLDS ON FOR A 1-0 WIN
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No. 9 Vermont men’s soccer got another goal in the final minutes of regulation to salvage a win number 5 on the 2025 season, 2-1 over Hofstra.A sold-out Virtue Field packed into the bleachers to see the Cats take on the team they eliminated in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2024. After a scoreless first half, Vermont’s Phillip Kuehn found a rebound in the box to put Vermont ahead in the 69th minute. Hofstra would tie the game less than five minutes later, and in the 83rd minute, UVM would find Niels Hartman in the box to give a game-winning goal, and the 100th win of head coach Rob Dow’s career.Vermont is back on the road this Saturday, taking on Fairfield, before conference play begins on the 27th of September.Watch the highlights in the video above!
No. 9 Vermont men’s soccer got another goal in the final minutes of regulation to salvage a win number 5 on the 2025 season, 2-1 over Hofstra.
A sold-out Virtue Field packed into the bleachers to see the Cats take on the team they eliminated in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2024. After a scoreless first half, Vermont’s Phillip Kuehn found a rebound in the box to put Vermont ahead in the 69th minute. Hofstra would tie the game less than five minutes later, and in the 83rd minute, UVM would find Niels Hartman in the box to give a game-winning goal, and the 100th win of head coach Rob Dow’s career.
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Vermont is back on the road this Saturday, taking on Fairfield, before conference play begins on the 27th of September.
Watch the highlights in the video above!
