Carter Webb scored his first goal of the season on Thursday.

September 12, 2025

Gents Drop 4-2 Decision At Hardin-Simmons On Thursday

The Centenary men's soccer team fell 4-2 to the Hardin-Simmons University Cowboys on Thursday evening in a non-conference contest at the HSU Soccer Complex.

Centenary (La.)

2-2-1, 0-0-0

Hardin-Simmons

3-3-0, 0-0-0

Final	1	2	T
Centenary (La.) (2-2-1, 0-0-0)	1	1	2
Hardin-Simmons (3-3-0, 0-0-0)	2	2	4

Abilene, Texas – The Centenary men's soccer team fell 4-2 to the Hardin-Simmons University Cowboys on Thursday evening in a non-conference contest at the HSU Soccer Complex.

The Gents (2-2-1) took an early 1-0 lead, but the Cowboys (3-3) answered with four-straight goals before Centenary added a late goal to make it 4-2. Both teams were aggressive as they combined for 33 total shots – 19 by the Cowboys and 14 by the Gents. Half of the Gents' shots were on goal (seven) while the Cowboys tallied nine shots on goal. The teams were meeting for the first since 2011, a series which the Gents lead 8-5.

Senior GK Sam Brocato (Leesville, La.) played all 90 minutes and made four saves. He entered the match in a tie for third nationally in division III in shutouts (three) to lead the conference and was top-25 nationally in saves and in the top 100 nationally in save percentage. Griffin Cardwell also went the distance in goal for the Cowboys and made five saves.

Senior MF Brandon Guevara (Henderson, Texas) scored his first-career goal just over 14 minutes into the match for a 1-0 lead. The Cowboys, though, responded quickly as Benny Lube scored in the 19^th minute, assisted by James Webb. Roughly five minutes later Webb and Lube connected again, with this time Webb scoring and Lube assisting for a 2-1 lead.

Hardin-Simmons' 2-1 lead stood until the 68^th minute when Omar Estrada, assisted by Korbin Raef, scored to make it 3-1 and then just minutes later Raef found the net with the assist credited to C.J. Munjoma for a 4-1 lead in the 70^th minute.

Junior F Carter Webb (Flower Mound, Texas) scored his first goal of the season in the 84^th minute, with junior MF Jacob Ramsey (Baton Rouge, La.) assisting, to cap the scoring.

The Gents will complete their weekend on Saturday with another non-conference contest versus Howard Payne University set for 5 PM in Brownwood, Texas.

See the complete Gents' 2025 season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/msoc/2025-26/schedule

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