(Sugar Grove, IL.) – Waubonsee Community College's Men's Soccer team went toe-to-toe with highly touted Rock Valley College on Saturday morning. However, when the final horn sounded the 18^th ranked Golden Eagles (1-1-1) held on for a 2-0 victory to hand the Chiefs (2-1) their first loss of the season. Rock Valley, which had faced the top ranked team in the nation in Northeast (NE) Community College and 20^th ranked Patrick and Henry (VA) Community College in their first two matches, held just a 15-12 advantage in shots and 9-7 in shots on goal for the match.

Just four minutes in the Chiefs' Jayden Patino got off a solid shot from 12 yards out that Rock Valley keeper Juan Grajales dove to his right to stop. For the most part Waubonsee controlled the action against the highly touted Golden Eagles over the initial twenty minutes of play. Rock Valley almost got on the scoreboard first in the 21^st minute when Jovanni Ortega's free kick from 25 yards out hit the right post and bounded away. Two minutes later a flurry of activity near the Golden Eagles' goal resulted in three quick shots by the Chiefs, but they could not find the back of the net. Another foul on the Chiefs gave Rock Valley a free kick in the 33^rdminute and the visitors capitalized. The ensuing free kick from 22 yards out by Joao Triguerio was headed into the far corner of the net by Ortega for a 1-0 lead. The score remained that way heading into the intermission. 

The tempo and pace of the match picked up once the second half began. Another header shot off a corner kick was thwarted by Chiefs' keeper Adrian Chavez with a diving stop to his left in the 63^rd minute. In the 67^thminute another free kick was headed for the top shelf of the goal before being deflected away by a leaping Chavez to keep Waubonsee within one goal. A foul on the Golden Eagles gave the Chiefs a free kick from 20 yards out with 15 minutes remaining. Mauro Munoz then laced a hooking shot toward the left corner of the goal that Grajales made a spectacular diving deflection to prevent the potential game-tying goal. Rock Valley then tacked on a huge insurance goal in the 85^th minute when Heriberto Dominguez fed Reese Schlichting who drilled a 15-yard shot from the right side into the far-left corner. Chavez finished the match with seven saves, while Grajales was credited with five. For the match Rock Valley owned a 5-1 edge in corner kicks.

Coach Brett Suhayda's Chiefs are in action again next Thursday, September 4, when they travel to Des Plaines to square off against Oakton Community College in an Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference match starting at 4:00 p.m.