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 It was a week of mixed results for the Marquette, UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee men's soccer teams, with midweek losses offset by all three teams collecting points on the weekend.
The Golden Eagles remained unbeaten in conference play, while the Phoenix and Panthers both played matches that were 2-0 at halftime but didn't finish that way. Get all the highlights in our weekly recap.
 Marquette (5-5-2, 3-0-0 Big East)
Tuesday: Northern Illinois 1, Golden Eagles 0 (2OT). Freshman Jayson LeSeth scored his first collegiate goal in the 107th minute, beating Marquette junior goalkeeper David Check (Mequon Homestead) from 25 yards out with a shot from the left side that found the top right corner, as the Huskies (8-2-0) outlasted the Golden Eagles in a non-conference match at Valley Fields. Marquette, which saw its five-game unbeaten streak end, outshot NIU 10-0 in the first half but couldn't find a way past Huskies junior keeper Jordan Godsey and his backline. A header by Golden Eagles freshman defender John Mau (Kettle Moraine) was goal-bound in the second minute but a defender cleared it off the line, while Godsey counted a diving save to deny a 28-yard drive by junior midfielder Ryan Robb in the 20th among three saves he made in his sixth shutout of the season. Freshman defender Dusty Page (Germantown/Kettle Moraine Lutheran) played seven minutes off the bench for Northern Illinois, which is ranked 22nd by College Soccer News and 23rd by Soccer Times.
Saturday: Golden Eagles 3, Providence 1. Junior Chris Madsen (Brookfield Central) beat two defenders and scored from 12 yards out in the 32nd minute to break a tie in Rhode Island as Marquette beat the host Friars (6-4-1, 1-1-1) for the first time and remained unbeaten in Big East Conference play. Junior forward Andy Huftalin opened the scoring in the 12th on a shot from the top of the box that hit the crossbar and went in for his third goal of the season, but freshman Marcos Ugarte leveled things up in the 23rd for Providence – ranked 22nd by Soccer America and 27th by College Soccer News – on a quick counter following a corner kick. Madsen put the Golden Eagles in front again with his second of the year and C. Nortey added an insurance goal in the 54th with a diving header off a cross from fellow freshman Sebastian Jansson as Marquette won after losing the first five matches in the series. Check ended up with five saves for the Golden Eagles, who ended the Friars' four-game winning streak at Glay Field. "We had big performances from many players," Marquette coach Louis Bennett said. "This team did something that not many teams do, and that was to come to Providence and win. This is a really tough place to play."
Up next: vs. No. 12 Notre Dame, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday; vs. West Virginia, 7:05 p.m. Saturday.
 UW-Green Bay (5-5-1, 1-2-0 Horizon)
Wednesday: DePaul 3, Phoenix 1. Junior keeper Travis Meikle (Monona Grove) saved Antonio Aguilar's penalty kick in the 61st minute, but Aguilar scored off the rebound to snap a tie as the Blue Demons (4-6-1) won a non-conference match in Chicago. The penalty kick was awarded after Meikle's tackle on Thiago Ganancio on the right side of the box near the endline. "It's obviously disappointing to lose, especially in the way we have lost," Green Bay coach Kris Kelderman said. "I asked the referee afterwards about the call and he obviously felt comfortable with his decision much more than I did. At that point it was one of those calls that changed the complexion of the game and put us in the ultimate attack mode being down a goal." Ganancio gave DePaul the lead when he scored on the rebound of Aguilar's shot in the 52nd, but senior midfielder Tony Walls (Wauwatosa East) answered for the Phoenix just 75 seconds later. Walls scored his third goal of the season on a free kick from just outside the box. Walls also had the ball in the net in the 57th, following up after Alonso Flores' header clanged off the crossbar, but Walls was ruled offside on the play. Aguilar added an insurance goal on a header in the 77th past Meikle, who finished with seven saves in his first career start in place of starter Ryan Wehking (red card suspension). "I thought Travis played very well," Kelderman said. Video highlights
Saturday: Phoenix 3, Tulsa 2. Freshman midfielder AJ Patterson (Menomonee Falls) scored his first career goal off a scramble following a corner kick in the 84th minute as Green Bay ended a three-game losing streak in dramatic fashion, rallying from a two-goal deficit to beat the host Golden Hurricane (4-7-0) in a non-conference game in Oklahoma. Tulsa, which has lost four in a row, took a 2-0 lead on goals by Corey Albertson and Kyle Cumings in a seven-minute span late in the first half but couldn't hold on. Sophomore forward Sebastian Xiong (Monona Grove) got the first goal of his college career on a drive from 20 yards out on the left side in the 56th, and freshman forward Kirby Allen (Appleton North) equalized from close range just less than three minutes later. Senior midfielder Stuart Grable, who assisted on Allen's goal, played in the decisive corner kick, which deflected off several Golden Hurricane defenders before Patterson deposited it into the net to halt the Phoenix's slide. "We knew they were going to be a physical team, but in the second half we were second-best every time," Tulsa coach Tom McIntosh said. "They were first to the ball and won 90 percent of the challenges, and we physically didn't compete."
Up next: vs. Butler, 7 p.m. Saturday.
 UW-Milwaukee (5-6-1, 2-1-1 Horizon)
Tuesday: Michigan State 2, Panthers 1. Freshman keeper Josh Rohde (Waukesha West) made 14 saves, but Adam Montague's controversial goal in the 78th minute made the difference as host Michigan State (3-6-2) pulled out a non-conference victory in East Lansing. Rohde, whose save total in the match ranks sixth in program history, stopped all 10 shots the Spartans put on goal in the first half – including four in a 70-second span. Michigan State took the lead on a set piece in the 47th, as Montague headed Cyrus Saydee's corner kick to Mark Barone at the far post and Barone's shot deflected off the post and a defender before squeezing past Rodhe. UWM equalized in the 65th through senior Robert Refai, who ran onto a flick from freshman Nick Langford on the left flank, dribbled into the box and scored his fifth goal of the season from 15 yards out. On the winning goal, Rohde came well off his line to try to deal with a long ball Barone played over the Panthers' backline. Montague got to the ball first, but it appeared to bounce off his arm before he dribbled into the open net for the game-winner. "We weren't at our best in the first half, but Josh kept us in the game," said UWM coach Chris Whalley, whose team was outshot 27-9. "I thought we were in the ascendancy in the second half, played well, passed the ball well, scored a good goal and felt like we were the team that would go on to win the game." Video highlights
Saturday: Panthers 2, Detroit 2. Refai scored for the second straight game and sophomore Robbie Boyd (Milwaukee Marquette) added his first goal of the season as UWM took a 2-0 lead in the opening 35 minutes, then settled for a draw with the Titans (4-6-1, 0-2-1) in a Horizon match in Detroit. "I feel like we played some good soccer today," Whalley said. "We created some good chances and took two of them in the first half. Unfortunately, we didn't capitalize on any of our chances in the second half or overtime." Refai netted his sixth of the year on a 25-yard strike in the 18th minute and Boyd doubled the lead in the 35th when he ripped a shot from the right side that Detroit keeper Anthony Shepherd got a hand on but couldn't keep out. Nate Robinson started the Titans' comeback in the 54th by converting a penalty kick, and Adam Bedell tied it on a header in the 80th. Langford, who set up Boyd's goal, nearly won it for the Panthers in the 90th minute, but his shot was just wide with 2 seconds left. "Credit to Detroit," said Whalley, whose team had four of the five shots in the overtime periods. "They came back and scored two goals and we didn't close the game out. Being up 2-nil at halftime you should do that. A tie on the road in conference is not the end of the world. A point is a point and we'd rather take that than none." UWM had 15 corner kicks, the most for the Panthers in a match since October 2003.
Up next: vs. Wright State, 7 p.m. Saturday.
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