TechNews | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Barclay's Premier League: Arsenal remains in first, Everton trails by 3 points Nathan McMahon SPORTS EDITOR After the first five weeks of matches Arsenal remains atop the league with a perfect 15 points out of a possible 15. Arsenal took three points after a 2-1 win over Swansea City with goals from Serge Gnabry and Aaron Ramsey while Swansea got a goal from Ben Davies. Swansea is in the bottom half of the table with 7 points. The biggest shocker of the week and of the season has been the consistently poor performance of Manchester United. Under David Moyes’ reign United has managed only 7 points with essentially the same team that won the league last year. United’s latest loss came at the hands of West Bromwich Albion in 2—1 fashion with goals for West Brom coming from Morgan Amalfitano and Saido Berahino and United’s goal coming from Wayne Rooney. West Brom now has 8 points on the season. Southampton continued its winning ways with a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace with goals from Rickie Lambert and Pablo Osvaldo. The Saints now have 11 points while Crystal Palace has only 3 points. West Ham United continues its struggles after a 1-0 loss to Hull City leaves them with just 5 points. Behind Robert Brady’s goal Hull City now has 10 points. Cardiff City took down Fulham 2-1 behind goals by Steven Caulker and Jordon Mutch to give them 8 points while Fulham struggled with its goal coming from Bryan Ruiz and have only 4 points. Another surprise result was Aston Villa over Manchester City in a 3-2 win. Villa got goals from Andreas Weimann, Leandro Bacuna, and Karim El Ahmadi while Yaya Toure and Edin Deko scored for City. City now has 10 points while Villa improves to 9 points this season. The premier matchup of the weekend was between Tottenham and Chelsea which ended in a 1-1 draw. Tottenham got goal from Gylfi Sigurdsson while Iohn Terry scored for Chelsea. Chelsea now has 11 points while Tottenham is above them with 13 points. Jonathan Howson led Norwich City with a goal in a 1-0 win over Stoke City giving them 7 points which is level with Stoke. Ross Barkley accompanied a brace of goals from Romelu Lukaku in Everton’s 3—2 win over Newcastle United who got their goals from Loic Remy and Yohan Cabaye. Everton now has 12 points while Newcastle continues to struggle with 7 points. Luis Suarez did not disappoint in his return to Premier League play after a 10 game ban where he scored a double in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Sunderland. Liverpool also got a goal from league scoring leader Daniel Sturridge to give the Reds 13 points while Emanuele Giaccherini’s goal was not enough for the black cats who are stuck with 1 point at the bottom of the table. Women's soccer falls flat‘against Trinity, Roosevelt Veronica Torres TECHNEWS WRITER The Illinois Tech Women’s Soccer team lost their last two games to open CCAC conference play. With a 7-0 loss against Trinity Christian College and a 3-1 defeat to Roosevelt University, the Scarlet Hawks fell to 2-7. , , After a much needed two-week break, g Hawks returned to action at home looking "pick up where they left off. However, the the game. Kayla Dierner found the back of the net in less than five minutes to score the first goal of her hat trick, and the Trolls didn’t look back from there. The hosts struggled to maintain possession and they were found defending fitmity Christian Trolls quickly took control of ‘ the majority of the time. With the constant pressure, Trinity Christian added three more goals to finish the half with a 4-0 lead. At half time, senior Mariah Kuitse was honored in front of a standout crowd of 200 for her «foyr years of hard work and dedication to the team; ‘ The second stanza continued much like the first, and the Trolls added to their tally within the first five minutes once again as a result of their disorganization and-laCk'adaisical defending which cost them another goal. Things seemed to get even worse for the homeside when goalkeeper Roxanne Myers was givefnfla ' debatable red card. Defender Mariah Kuitse stepped in as keeper and the Hawks wereifloi'ce'd » to play‘the remaining 15 minutes of the‘game- ' one man down. In spite of the already lopsided match, the Trolls never let up and they slotted one final, goal into the net putting a damper on the Homecoming and Senior Day festivities. On Tuesday afternoon the Lady Hawks travelled to Toyota Park to take on the . Roosevelt Lakers. Illinois Tech came out strong, dominating possession in the early stages of the game, and with Roosevelt playing a high, flat defensive line; the Scarlet Ha“ ks had an overwhelming amount of opportunity to attack. ’Unfortunately, the team was unable to take advantage ofthis and convert their chances into goals. Rooseiqelt however, made the most of their - lone attempt ”to score in the half and-managed to slip one past back-up keeper, Knit The Scarlet Hawks resfibnded immediately, scoring less than a minute into the second half. The stellar striker duo of Adrianna Maron and Anida Phetchanpheng went to work making the Roosevelt back line look like pylons as they passed combinations around them. Phetchanpheng supplied the assist, while Mar‘on struck the ball straight through the keeper’s hands and into the back of the, net. ‘ Although the Hawks had more opportunities to score, it was Roosey t- that came out on top by adding two 1110. Momentary lacks of concentration p ._ cost the Hawks dearly. ~ Illinois Tech matches up against rival Robert Morris on October 5th at Stuart Field before going away to University of St. Francis on the 9th.