University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Friday, October 9
Asheville, NC
6 PM
UNC Asheville
9-2-1, 3-1-0
3
vs
0
Winthrop
5-6-1, 2-2-0
| Team | 1 | 2 | Final F |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winthrop | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UNC Asheville | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Bulldogs Blank Winthrop for Key Big South Conference Victory
10.09.2026 | Men's Soccer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026
Contact: Jake Miller (jmille26@unca.edu)
Bulldogs Blank Winthrop for Key Big South Conference Victory
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - UNC Asheville Men's Soccer blanked Winthrop 3-0 for a key Big South Conference win at Greenwood Field on Friday (Oct. 9).
The Bulldogs applied offensive pressure from the opening whistle, finally breaking through for the match's first goal in the 17th minute. The Bulldogs had a throw-in deep in Winthrop territory, when the ball was lofted toward the box. A Winthrop failed clear saw the ball find its way to Lennart Granzow who played it across to Tyler Ware who stashed it home in the bottom of the right corner for the score.
Asheville would tack on two more goals while keeping their clean sheet in the second half en route to the victory. Just 11 minutes into the second half, a Bulldog corner kick was set up on the fra end of the field to be taken by Arnor Hardarson. Hardarson bent a ball in the box off his right foot that was played through a crowd by Louie Salkeld and stashed home by Joseph Ling for a 2-0 Bulldogs lead.
Asheville nearly doubled up Winthrop in the shot column in the match (23-12), including owning the shots on goal category 11-2 and earning eight corner kicks to Winthrop's three. Ware paced the offense with a match-high and career-high nine shots, while M'Bamba had three shots while Woody Angell and Salkeld each had two shots in the contest. Granzow, Charlie Wood, Hardarson, Samori, Ling, Ian Smith and Nathan Montini each had one shot in the match with Montini posting the first attempt of his career. Lucca Barros (8-2-1) made two saves in his fifth shutout of the season and ninth clean sheet of his career.
The Bulldogs (9-2-1, 3-1-0 Big South Conference) return to action on Tuesday (Oct. 13) at Wake Forest in non-conference action. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. from Winston-Salem, N.C. with video, live stats and tickets available at www.uncabulldogs.com.
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026
Contact: Jake Miller (jmille26@unca.edu)
Bulldogs Blank Winthrop for Key Big South Conference Victory
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - UNC Asheville Men's Soccer blanked Winthrop 3-0 for a key Big South Conference win at Greenwood Field on Friday (Oct. 9).
The Bulldogs applied offensive pressure from the opening whistle, finally breaking through for the match's first goal in the 17th minute. The Bulldogs had a throw-in deep in Winthrop territory, when the ball was lofted toward the box. A Winthrop failed clear saw the ball find its way to Lennart Granzow who played it across to Tyler Ware who stashed it home in the bottom of the right corner for the score.
It was Ware's 10th goal of the season and 17th of his career, while Granzow picked up his second assist of the season and of his career. The teams traded runs, possessions and chances throughout the remainder of the first half, before a Winthrop player was issued a straight red card on a hard challenge after a video review in the 36th minute of play. Asheville ultimately outshot Winthrop 6-5 in the opening half, while earning one corner kick to Winthrop's three in the frame.17' | Tyler time ⌚️ His 10th of the season has us up 1-0 off an assist from Lenny! #ALLinAVL https://t.co/TivY7gVGlm
— Asheville Men's Soccer (@UNCAvlMSoccer) October 9, 2026
Asheville would tack on two more goals while keeping their clean sheet in the second half en route to the victory. Just 11 minutes into the second half, a Bulldog corner kick was set up on the fra end of the field to be taken by Arnor Hardarson. Hardarson bent a ball in the box off his right foot that was played through a crowd by Louie Salkeld and stashed home by Joseph Ling for a 2-0 Bulldogs lead.
It was Ling's first career goal off Salkeld's second assist of the year and ninth of his career and Hardarson's third helper of the year and sixth of his career. Asheville continued to control the match into its final stages, when the final Bulldogs goal would come in the 86th minute. An Asheville goal kick was played forward by Ware to the feet of Matteo Samori, who then played forward for a streaking Kayoum M'Bamba down the far wing. M'Bamba sent a missile to the top right corner for his fifth of the season, with Ware picking up his eighth assist of the season and 15th of his career and Samori earning his second assist of the season and seventh of his career.56' | Have a cup of Joe ☕️ Lingo's first of the season off an assist from Arnor puts us up 2-0! #ALLinAVL https://t.co/Hbl2jpqKgu
— Asheville Men's Soccer (@UNCAvlMSoccer) October 9, 2026
86' Kayoum finishes this one off with assists from Tyler and Matteo! #ALLinAVL https://t.co/pMRymLEX0l
— Asheville Men's Soccer (@UNCAvlMSoccer) October 10, 2026
Asheville nearly doubled up Winthrop in the shot column in the match (23-12), including owning the shots on goal category 11-2 and earning eight corner kicks to Winthrop's three. Ware paced the offense with a match-high and career-high nine shots, while M'Bamba had three shots while Woody Angell and Salkeld each had two shots in the contest. Granzow, Charlie Wood, Hardarson, Samori, Ling, Ian Smith and Nathan Montini each had one shot in the match with Montini posting the first attempt of his career. Lucca Barros (8-2-1) made two saves in his fifth shutout of the season and ninth clean sheet of his career.
The Bulldogs (9-2-1, 3-1-0 Big South Conference) return to action on Tuesday (Oct. 13) at Wake Forest in non-conference action. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. from Winston-Salem, N.C. with video, live stats and tickets available at www.uncabulldogs.com.
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WIN
AVL
Goals
0
3
Shots
12
23
Shots on Goal
2
11
Saves
8
2
Corners
3
8
Fouls
14
13
Scoring Plays
Tyler Ware (10)
Assisted By: Lennart Granzow
GOAL by AVL Ware, Tyler Assist by Granzow, Lennart.
16:20
Joseph Ling (1)
Assisted By: Arnor Hardarson , Louie Salkeld
GOAL by AVL Ling, Joseph Assist by Hardarson, Arnor and Salkeld, Louie.
55:35
Kayoum Mbamba (5)
Assisted By: Tyler Ware , Matteo Samori
GOAL by AVL Mbamba, Kayoum Assist by Ware, Tyler and Samori, Matteo.
85:14
Game Leaders
fwd
Shots
9
SOG
4
Goals
1
Assists
1
Shots
3
SOG
2
Goals
1
Assists
0
mid
Shots
1
SOG
1
Goals
1
Assists
0
Shots
2
SOG
1
Goals
0
Assists
1
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