Paladins and Bucs Battle

Jay Jacobs Published: October 11, 2025 | Updated: October 12, 2025 2 minutes read

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The Furman Paladins Men’s Soccer (7-1-4, 0-0-1 SoCon) take on the ETSU Bucs (1-5-4, 1-0-0 SoCon) at Eugene Stone stadium in a top of the SoCon battle. Both teams are looking to stay at the top of the league and Furman looks to stay in the top 25 in the nation.

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— GSM_Furman (@GSM_FurmanJoust) October 11, 2025

The Paladins get on the board first and its 1-0 when #33 Gabe Cox nails it in the net with an assist by both #10 Diego Hernandez and #11 Caleb Johnson. The Paladins wasted no time in firing away on the ETSU goalkeeper Emil Holmberg. The Bucs fire back and get a goal themselves when #12 Berkay Duman gets it past Furman and the scored is tied up at 1-1.

GOALLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Gabe Cox opens the scoring in the 1st minute!!! pic.twitter.com/nDjSjUSg9v
— Furman Men's Soccer (@FurmanSoccer) October 11, 2025

The Paladins with 20 minutes left get back on the scoreboard and its 2-1 Furman as #20 Ryan Reid nets the ball with yet another assist by Diego Hernandez. The Paladins have 6 shots on goal compared to 5 by ETSU at this point in the game. The players are really getting after it on both teams and fouls are finally starting to get called in the game.

GOALLLLLLLLLL!!! Ryan Reid puts the Paladins back on top in the 25th minute! 2-1 pic.twitter.com/MCiXKbebHv
— Furman Men's Soccer (@FurmanSoccer) October 11, 2025

We reach halftime at Stone Stadium, and the Paladins allowed a last-minute goal by ETSU #29 Jamie Carrillo with a assist by #10 Ingvar Kolbjornsen. The stat for halftime is Furman with 4 saves to ETSU 2, Furman with 6 fouls to ETSU 3, Bucs had 3 corner kicks to Furman 2, and the Paladins had 10 shots on goal to ETSU 9 so far.

Halftime pic.twitter.com/BPPHPfAsNM
— Furman Men's Soccer (@FurmanSoccer) October 12, 2025

The game in the second half stays at 2-2 till Furman with 21 minutes left in the match scores a goal on a penalty kick by #10 Diego Hernandez gets his first of the night and its 3-2 Furman over ETSU. Furman at this point has 17 shots on goal with ETSU has 12 goals.