The humidity in the air wasn’t the only thing bringing the heat in this seasons opening men’s soccer game between the Whittier Poets and the Leopards.

Members of the University of La Verne men’s soccer celebrated Labor Day early in the afternoon before heading over to the new stadium for evening practice.

With Matt Rogers’ nameplate still hanging on the door and an office that is relatively plain, Antoinette Love continues to settle in to her new position as women’s soccer coach.

Head women’s soccer coach Wendy Zwissler will not return for the 2012-13 season.

With leopard print balloons crowding the scorer’s table, the men’s soccer team faced the conference champion Redlands Bulldogs, walking away with a 3-0 loss.

Signs and balloons decorated the stadium for lone senior Anastasia Muratalla, but the women’s soccer team dropped a 2-0 decision Saturday to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in what was a tightly contested match throughout.

The La Verne men’s soccer team ventured into enemy territory and managed a shutout 3-0 victory against the Caltech Beavers on Wednesday.

Despite a late goal, it was too little too late as men’s soccer fell to the visiting Cal Lutheran Kingsmen by a 3-1 score Wednesday at Damien High School.

Boye Christiansen became restless with his normal routine, so he packed up his soccer ball, said goodbye to his family and traveled 5,000 miles away from his native Stavanger, Norway, to find a new stomping ground in La Verne.

Despite many chances in the offensive third of the field for the Leopards, they fell to the visiting Whittier Poets on Saturday by a score of 1-0.