For the second straight year the Knights did not designate a captain, instead choosing to have three alternate captains at home and three on the road.
Ben Gotz
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Ben Gotz was named assistant sports editor in November 2023. He previously covered the Vegas Golden Knights. Ben came to the Review-Journal in May 2016 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Las Vegas, he wrote about college hockey, college football and high school sports during stops at the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and Minnesota Daily back home in Minnesota.
The captain scored on a header in the 81st minute to help the Lights defeat Rio Grande Valley FC in front of 6,752 fans at Cashman Field on Saturday.
The Las Vegas Lights totaled 12 goals in their five June games after scoring just 11 in their first 10.
San Jose seemed surprised by the Golden Knights’ early aggressiveness and ended up allowing one goal too many in a 5-3 loss at T-Mobile Arena on Friday.
The Lights’ on-field boss will have to sit out the team’s next seven games after making physical contact with a match official in last Friday’s loss to San Antonio FC.
Cuellar, who has trained with the Lights for the last three weeks, will play for the Mexican national team in two friendlies against the U.S. on Thursday and Sunday.
Kyle Larson finished third in the Pennzoil 400 Cup Series race on Sunday a day after winning the Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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