CALDWELL, Idaho – A second half comeback saved Argo soccer from a bad loss and kept the team's now 4-game winning streak alive, overcoming a 2-0 deficit at the half to beat College of Idaho 3-2. UGF scored two goals in the span of two minutes, with goals from redshirt-freshman Cole Myers and freshman Ole Cloppenburg in the 60th and 61st minutes to get back into the game.
 
The comeback was need because the Argos were just plain not ready to play at the start of the game. Coming off of an emotional 4-0 win over rival Rocky Mountain College, UGF was flat against the Yotes and let up a goal in the first five minutes.
 
Apparently that one goal wasn't enough to wake up UGF, as COI scored another goal with the same players 26 minutes later to take a commanding 2-0 lead into the half.
 
Such a disappointing first half performance garnered a fire-and-brimstone speech at halftime from UGF Head Coach Joseph Yeisley, which seemed to do just the trick.
 
"I basically just told them that we had to start being more aggressive on both sides of the ball," Yeisley said. "It was going to take a lot of heart to get back in this game, but if they were aggressive and attacked at them every time, we would win the game."
 
UGF earned one corner and got off three shots in the first ten minutes of the second half, to set the tone for how the final 45 minutes would play out.
 
Part of the energy boost was a second half starting lineup that feature a number of bench players that made the most of their opportunity. Freshman Alex Williams, and seniors Christian Esparza and Pedro Sala all made major contributions, with Williams making the biggest.
 
In the 60th minute, the British import swung a cross from left-to-right, finding the head of redshirt-freshman Cole Meyers who directed the ball into the right side of the net.
 
Another freshman, center back Ole Cloppenburg, continued the scoring less than two minutes later, on a UGF corner kick. The kick from sophomore Adrian Gomez fell first to senior Sam Howard headed it back across the face of the net to Cloppenburg who scored the first goal of his young career.  
 
While the equalizer came from a freshman center back, it was senior center back Sam Howard who scored the game winner during a mad scramble in front of the Yotes net in the 82nd minute. After the ball bounced from Argo to Yotes a number of times inside the penalty box, Howard finally corralled it and shot from seven yard out. A COI defender made a last lunge at the ball, and while he made contact right before the goal line, he only managed to redirect the ball into a different part of the net. 
 
UGF's second half push was constant and obvious from the final statistics. The Argos outshot COI 15-4 in the final 45 minutes and 22-10 over the course of the game. That didn't mean that were quite for UGF keeper Marc Girones, however, as the sophomore still had to make two of his five saves in the second half.
 
The win gives UGF its first winning record of the season at 5-4 (4-2) and a fourth straight victory. The team will look to move that streak to five as they return home for a match against Carroll College on October 8, at 3:30 p.m.