Pirates Travel to UConn for Saturday Night Showdown

South Orange, N.J. – Seton Corridor males’s soccer hits the street this weekend as they journey to Storrs to face UConn. Kickoff is about for 7 p.m. on Saturday evening, with stay protection on the BIG EAST Digital Community on FloFC.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Pirates performed DePaul to a scoreless draw at dwelling on a wet Wednesday evening at Owen T. Carroll Area. The Corridor had no scarcity of possibilities, because it outshot the Blue Demons 20-6 on the evening. Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) picked up his fourth shutout of the season, making a pair of saves.
 
SCOUTING UCONN (3-5-1, 1-2-1)

• The Huskies picked up their first BIG EAST win of the season on Wednesday, taking down Windfall at dwelling, 3-2.
• Frantz Pierrot leads the group with three targets on the season, whereas Mateo Leveque has a team-high 9 factors.
• UConn is permitting 2.22 targets per sport, probably the most amongst BIG EAST groups this season.
• Chris Gbandi is in his first season as head coach for UConn and was a member of the Huskies’ nationwide title profitable group in 2000.
• UConn leads the all-time collection 15-14-4, and received final yr, 1-0, in South Orange on a objective scored by Ben Awashie with 16 seconds remaining.
• Seton Corridor has not received at UConn since a 3-2 extra time win within the semifinals of the 2000 BIG EAST Match.

NEWS & NOTES

• The Pirates are unbeaten by 4 BIG EAST video games for the primary time since 2003. The one time Seton Corridor was unbeaten by 5 convention video games was 1991.
• Seton Corridor is using a six-game unbeaten streak, marking the third consecutive season through which this system has completed that feat.
• Seton Corridor is one in every of solely two groups within the BIG EAST with one or fewer losses to date this season (Xavier).
• Wednesday’s tie in opposition to DePaul was the Pirates’ fifth of the season, tying the single-season program document which has been completed twice earlier than (2014, 1979).
• The Corridor had an 11-2 edge in nook kicks on Wednesday in opposition to DePaul, their largest benefit in that class since proudly owning a 10-0 margin in corners on Sep. 27, 2014, additionally in opposition to DePaul.
• Borg’s objective in opposition to St. John’s was the most recent regulation game-winning objective for the Pirates since CJ Tibbling’s 89^th minute objective in opposition to Air Power within the opening spherical of the 2020 NCAA Match.
• Johannes Pex’s penalty kick objective in opposition to Xavier was the most recent game-tying objective scored by the Pirates since Spencer Burkhardt netted an equalizer at 89:58 in an eventual Pirate extra time win at Princeton on Sep. 7, 2017.
• The Pirates scored a objective in every of their first 9 matches of this season, doing so for the primary time since 1999 after they scored of their first 11 matches.
• Seton Corridor has received its final six matches, and 15 of its final 16, when scoring the primary objective.
• The win over Oregon State was the Pirates’ first over a top-10 group within the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021. The win additionally marked the primary time Seton Corridor has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe since profitable at No. 3 Virginia within the 2001 NCAA Match.
• The Pirates conceded only one objective by its first three matches of the season, this system’s finest defensive begin to a season since 2005.

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