Men's Soccer Travels to Old Dominion for First Road Test on Friday Evening

UMBC (2-1-2) at Old Dominion (2-2) | Friday, Sept. 6, 7:00 p.m. | Norfolk, VA (ODU Soccer Stadium) | Watch | Live Stats

DAWG BYTES

UMBC is ranked No. 2 in this week's United Soccer Coaches Regional Poll.
UMBC went 1-0-1 last weekend in the UMBC/Navy Tournament as they defeated Niagara (4-0) and dropped a 1-0 decision to Fairleigh Dickinson. Against Niagara, Ryan Calheira scored twice in the span of 25 seconds to jump start the hosts to the 4-0 win.
The two quick goals for Calheira against Niagara gave him the team lead in scoring, five other Retrievers have one goal each.
Hans Nesheim leads the team with three assists, while Alek Wroblewski is right behind with two.
Emigdio Tormo Lopez has made 18 saves with an .818 save percentage through four starts.

ABOUT ODU

The four goals in the win at George Washington were the most in a season opener since 2011 in a 6-0 win over Houston Baptist in a tournament at West Virginia.
Tennant McVea takes over as head coach of the Monarchs from long-time coach Alan Dawson who retired at the end of the 2023 season. He had served on the staff for seven years, including being on the Conference USA winning staff in 2014.
Through three matches, Timothy Ennin leads the Monarchs with two goals and two assists for six points. Key White has one goal and two assists for four points, with Eberle having a goal and an assist for three points. Noah Madrigal has tallied one goal and Lewis Redding has two assists to round out the scoring for ODU. Michael Statham has a .769 save percentage for the Monarchs in four starts in net.

SERIES HISTORY

In last year's meeting at Baltimore, Jordan Travers scored in the 37^th minute off an assist from Nesheim and Robbie Ryerson. Nathan Alves scored his first collegiate goal off a corner kick at 77:22 for the equalizer in a 1-1 draw with the Retrievers in front of nearly 2,900 at Retriever Soccer Park.
ODU leads the all-time series with UMBC 1-0-2 with the last two contests being draws, a scoreless one in 2012 and last year's 1-1 match in Baltimore.

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