SUPERIOR, Wis. - Things are different in 2020. Just about everywhere you look, things have changed from the way they were months, even weeks ago. Sports at UW-Superior are no exception.

Earlier in the year, the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the fall sports season, meaning the Yellowjackets will have to wait until the calendar turns to 2021 to take on outside competition. In the meantime, teams at UW-Superior will keep things in house, competing against themselves in what is being billed as the Superior Super Series.

The 2020-21 sports season kicked off with Yellowjacket head men's soccer coach Joe Mooney and his staff dividing the roster into two teams for a good, old-fashioned intrasquad match. Team Earn It and Team Built Different hit the pitch with mid-season intensity, bringing great action to the NBC Spartan Sports Complex to open the campaign. Senior Blake Doyea (Ramsey, Minn./Anoka) scored the eventual game-winning goal just over two minutes into the second half, as Built Different got a pair of goals in each period on the way to a 4-2 win over Earn It on a misty Thursday evening in Superior.

Senior Mason Tynsky (Rochester, Minn./John Marshall) opened up the scoring for Built Different, finding the back of the net from a sharp angle on the left to make it 1-0 just three minutes into the match.

It stayed that way until the 22nd minute when Superior-native Blake Hanson (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior) tied the match for Earn It, converting a set up from Archie Gjerdrum (St. Paul, Minn./Como Park) to tie the score 1-1.

Both teams played physical defensively for the next 18 minutes, limiting scoring chances keeping the game even. That changed with just under six minutes to play in the first half when Oscar Gulbrandsen (Oslo, Norway/Lambertseter) scored to put Built Different back in front.

Early in the second half Built Different extended its lead to two when Doyea, streaking down the right side of the box, finished off a brilliant pass from Brandon Conklin (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior) and scored off his right foot to make it 3-1.

The two-goal advantage didn't last long, just 59 seconds to be exact, when Pontus Tavemark (Taeby, Sweden/Taeby Enskilden Gymnasium) scored in the 49th minute to pull Earn It back to within one at 3-2.

In the 73rd minute Protus Babaya (Elk River, Minn./Elk River) put the icing on the cake, scoring to push Built Different back in front by two, and making the final margin of the match 4-2.

With the win, Built Different (1-0-0) takes the early lead in the men's soccer Super Series. The two teams will meet again Saturday, October 3. Game time is set for 2:00 p.m. at the NBC Spartan Sports Complex in Superior.