CHESTER, PA. – Freshman Keenan O’Shea scored his first career goal in the 67th minute to send the Army West Point men’s soccer team to a 1-0 victory in the Star match over Navy on Friday evening at Talen Energy Stadium.
Army wins the soccer equivalent of the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy after defeating both Air Force and Navy. The Cadets had not beaten both service academies in the same year in nearly a decade, last pulling off the feat in 2007.
The Black Knights defeat Navy for the second year in a row and improve to 3-3-1 overall and 1-0-0 in the Patriot League, while the Mids slip to 2-4-1 and 0-1-0. The win comes as the Academy’s first Star victory of the 2016-17 season, as the Cadets pull even in the Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA, 1-1.
The service academies played in front of a crowd of 10,092 to mark the second-largest crowd in team history, falling short only to the total of 10,168 set in the 2014 Army-Navy game.
O’Shea took advantage of a breakdown in the Navy defense, as he intercepted a failed clearing attempt to score the game’s only goal in the 67th minute. Freshman Justin Stoll earned the start in goal and made three saves for his first career shutout.
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