SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – The Jessup men's soccer team ended its 2026 season on Saturday with a much stronger second half, taking nine shots after halftime to four in the first and pushing Dominican University of California deep into the final minutes before falling 3-0 at Kennelly Field. After the Penguins scored twice in the first 25 minutes, the Warriors held them scoreless for the next 60 minutes, with goalkeeper
Eduardo Enriquez making four saves after halftime and the back line of
Maximas Ganesh,
Jayden Reynolds and
Brandon Acevedo playing all 90 minutes. Dominican broke through again in the 85th minute to seal it. Jessup finished the season 2-13-2 overall and 0-8-1 in PacWest play, while Dominican improved to 6-6-4 and 5-3-1. Attendance was 173.
The Penguins started fast, with Sebastian Jaral scoring his eighth goal of the season in the 12th minute after a back-heel from Jake Kazlauskas. Julio Castro Altamirano made it 2-0 in the 25th minute with a close-range finish off a corner sequence, his first goal of the season. Dominican took 13 shots in the opening half, 5 of them on target, and Jessup goalkeeper
Curtis Lynch made three saves in 45 minutes. The Warriors had more first-half corners (3-2), and
Jordee Magana had a shot on target that Dominican goalkeeper Colin Nestor saved in the 15th minute.
Jesus Rios added two more attempts, one of them blocked.
Jessup pushed the match after the break. Magana put four shots on goal or near it in the second half, forcing Nestor saves in the 51st and 67th minutes, and
Jonathan Juarez tested Nestor in the 61st.
Alessandro Velazquez and
Diego Bravo also generated looks, and Jessup earned three second-half corners. At the other end, Enriquez denied Kazlauskas twice, plus Anthony Stainer and Jaral, to keep it a two-goal match until Benjamin Southern scored his first goal of the season in the 85th minute on an assist from Lucas Flores.
For the match, Dominican outshot Jessup 24-13 and held a 10-4 edge in shots on target. The teams were even on corner kicks at 6-6, and Jessup's seven saves were three more than Dominican's four. Possession favored the Penguins 55-45 percent. Jessup committed 11 fouls to Dominican's nine, and
Eli Vera received the match's only caution for the Warriors.
Magana led Jessup with six shots, three of them on target, in 66 minutes. Rios took three shots, Juarez two, and Velazquez and Bravo one each. Enriquez finished with four saves and Lynch three.
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