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Opala Sets Record in Hawks Loss

Release Date:
September 7, 2004
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September 7, 2004

 

WAYNESBURG, Pa. – The Waynesburg College men’s soccer team recorded a 6-3 win over visiting Hilbert College Monday in NCAA Division III soccer action.  The loss drops the Hawks to 0-2 on the young season.

 

Trung Luong (West Falls, NY/West Seneca West) got Hilbert on the board early but the Hawks surrendered two quick goals to end the first half down 2-1.

 

Waynesburg scored four more in the second half while the Hawks managed to get goals from Jacob Opala (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West), and Tim Jordan (Hamburg, NY/Frontier) to round out the scoring. 

 

For Opala, his second goal of the season puts him as Hilbert’s all-time leader in goals scored with 23 for his career.

 

The Hawks travel to SUNY Institute of Technology Sept. 10 for a 4 p.m. game against the Wildcats.


Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.