No. 5 Demon Deacons Safe First Clear Sheet Victory of 2025 Season

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Highlighted by a stout defensive effort and objectives from sophomore Jose Perez and junior Tate Lorentz, the No. 5 Wake Forest males’s soccer group (2-0-0, 0-0-0 ACC) continued its successful begin to the 2025 marketing campaign because it defeated Oral Roberts (0-2-1, 0-0-0 Summit League), 2-0, Thursday night at Spry Stadium.

Perez bought the Deacs on the scoreboard within the 14th minute, one-timing a low-level blast from the highest of the 18 to beat the Oral Roberts keeper for the third tally of his profession. Then within the second half, sophomore Joel Torbic completely positioned a ball to Lorentz from the nook. It marked the primary profession objective for the Winston-Salem native.

In objective, redshirt sophomore Jonah Mednard secured the primary shutout of his profession as he recorded one save. 

The beginning backline of junior Travis Smith, Jr., sophomores Mason Sullivan and Amoni Thomas, in addition to graduate captain Cristian Escribano additionally excelled in serving to the Demon Deacons to their first clear sheet of the season. Wake Forest restricted Oral Roberts to simply three pictures throughout the 90 minutes.

With the win, the Demon Deacons at the moment are unbeaten of their final 14 matches at Spry Stadium with wins in every of the final seven. Overall, the Deacs maintain an 11-0-3 house report courting again to Aug. 25 of final 12 months. Additionally, Thursday night time marked the 113th house victory for the Demon Deacons beneath Muuss, essentially the most throughout that span (2015).

Of be aware, sophomore defenders Daniel Krueger and Will Jackson made their season debuts. 24 whole Deacs noticed the sphere Thursday night time.

How it Happened

• White recorded the primary shot of the competition from an nearly similar spot from his marvel objective towards UCF on Sunday, however it simply missed vast left.
• In the thirteenth minute, Umar created area for himself and fired a shot from exterior the field that sailed excessive.
• A minute later, Wake Forest discovered the breakthrough as a weak clearance rolled to Perez who rocketed a first-time shot from 22-yards out for the opener.
  • It marked the third objective of Perez’s profession and first since his strike towards Virginia Tech final season (Oct. 19).

• After the objective, the Demon Deacons continued to manage the competition and restricted remaining third entries for the Golden Eagles.
• Wake Forest went into the locker room with a 1-0 benefit.
  • The Deacs managed 56 % of the ball and held a 6-to-1 pictures benefit, with the one shot on track from both aspect being the Perez strike.

• Krueger made his season debut as he began the second half.
• Winston-Salem native Tate Lorentz fired off the primary shot of the second half within the fiftieth minute.
• The hometown child bought his first-career objective 4 minutes later, nonetheless, as he headed house Torbic’s nook and doubled the Deacs benefit.
• The Deacs had an opportunity to make it three within the 61st minute, as Escribano performed an excellent ball throughout the objective to Umar, who was unable to place it away.
• Wake Forest continued to manage the tempo all through the second half.
• In the 83rd minute, Currie made his Demon Deacon debut and Jackson entered for the primary time in 2025.
• The Demon Deacons noticed out the 2-0 victory and earned the primary clear sheet of 2025.

Man of the Match – Jose Perez

• After an unbelievable efficiency within the midfield on Sunday night time towards UCF, Perez continued his sturdy begin to the 2025 marketing campaign with an unbelievable objective within the first half Thursday night.
• The junior went 63 minutes towards the Golden Eagles and helped Wake Forest earn its first clear sheet of 2025, limiting the opponents to simply three pictures on the night time.
• He is the second man of the match in 2025, following up Jeffrey White within the season opener.

National Leader In Wins 

• Since 2015, Wake Forest’s 154 whole wins ranks No. 1 nationally, seven greater than any program and 11 greater than some other ACC program.
• Wake Forest additionally leads the nation in wins over the past quarter-century (359), 9 greater than second-most Maryland.

Total Wins Since 2015 

Rank	Team	Total Wins Since ’15
1.	Wake Forest	154
2.	Indiana	146
3.	Clemson	142
4.	Georgetown	133
5.	Stanford	128

Winning Ways At Spry
Since Bobby Muuss grew to become head coach previous to the 2015 season, Wake Forest has created essentially the most tough atmosphere in faculty soccer at Spry Stadium every matchday. With Thursday’s victory, the Demon Deacons at the moment are 113-19-12 at house beneath Muuss. 

The 113 victories are essentially the most within the nation over the 11-year span: 

• Wake Forest (113 house victories)
• Clemson (94 house victories)
• Indiana (93 house victories)
• Virginia (86 house victories)
• Georgetown (84 house victories)

Demon Deacon Details of Note

• Jose Perez earned his twenty fifth profession begin and scored the third objective of his Wake Forest profession.
• Lorentz tallied his first-career objective as Torbic picked up his second-career help on the nook.
• Freshman Lorenze Currie made his collegiate debut, getting into the match within the 83rd minute.
• The Demon Deacons at the moment are unbeaten of their final 14 matches at Spry Stadium with wins in every of the final seven.
  • The Deacs maintain an 11-0-3 house report courting again to Aug. 25 of final 12 months.

• Wake Forest began 2-0-0 for the seventh time beneath head coach Bobby Muuss.
  • Additionally, Muuss remained good (5-0-0) all-time towards Oral Roberts, with 14 objectives scored and nil allowed over the 5 matches.

• Jose Perez earned his twenty fifth profession begin and scored the third objective of his Wake Forest profession.
• Amoni Thomas earned his fifteenth profession begin.
• Jeffrey White earned his fifteenth profession begin.
• Daniel Krueger made his first look of 2025, beginning the second half.
• Will Jackson made his first look of 2025, getting into the match within the late levels to assist safe the clear sheet.

From Coach Muuss
“We kept a clean sheet. We were disappointed when we let the goal up the other night. It was a good team performance because we used a lot of guys. I was a bit disappointed with the guys that came in in the first half, but the energy was much better in the second half. I thought the energy at the beginning of the game was incredible to hold a team that can get you in transition if you’re sloppy. We were sloppy a couple of times in transition, but the guys did a really good job of getting behind the ball and reorganizing our defense. We have to learn from it, though. I think Oral Roberts made it difficult to break down. They had a lot of numbers behind the ball. We just dropped immediately from the start of the game. I’m happy with second line shots on restarts. The best thing you can do against a team is sitting in so we did two of those things. Tate got his first goal; I’m really excited for that. What a great ball by Joel. It’s a great team win, and it allowed us to hopefully get a little bit more out of the next two days of training for a really good St. John’s team coming here on Sunday.”

Up Next

Wake Forest will stay at Spry for 3 extra non-conference clashes earlier than hitting the street for the primary time on Sept. 12 to tackle North Carolina within the ACC opener. The Demon Deacons will welcome St. John’s to Spry Stadium on Sunday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. The match shall be streamed reside on ACCNX.