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2013 SYRACUSE MEN’S SOCCER Syracuse AthleƟ c CommunicaƟ ons • Manley Field House • 1301 East Colvin Street • Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 Men’s Soccer SID: Alex Brooks • 315.443.2608 • [email protected] SUAthleƟ cs.com ΜCuseMensSoccer facebook.com/SUMensSoccer INAUGURAL ACC SEASON • 2012 NCAA SWEET 16 • 2012 NCAA MOST IMPROVED TEAM GAME INFORMATION SERIES BREAKDOWN Game #17 .......................... Clemson at Syracuse Clemson Syracuse Overall ...........First Mee ng Date ...........................Friday, November 1, 2013 First Mee ng ..............2013 Time .......................................................... 7 p.m. Tigers Orange Last Mee ng .................N/A Loca on .........................................Syracuse, N.Y. At SU .............First Mee ng Venue ................................... SU Soccer Stadium 2013 Record: 10-4-2, 5-2-2 ACC 2013 Record: 9-6-1, 2-6-1 ACC At CU ............................N/A Live Stats.................................. SUAthle cs.com Ranking: No. 19 (NSCAA) Ranking: NR (NSCAA) Neutral..........................N/A No. 23 (Soccer America) NR (Soccer America) Last 5 ............................N/A Head Coach: Mike Noonan Head Coach: Ian McIntyre Last 10 ..........................N/A 2013 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Record: 253-146-58 (25th year) Record: 135-98-40 (15th year) (9-6-1, 2-6-1 ACC) at Clemson: 29-30-13 (4th year) at SU: 28-34-8 (4th year) AUGUST Stat Leaders Stat Leaders 30 at Colgate (TWCS) W, 4-0 Goals: Thomas McNamara (7) Goals: Emil Ekblom (9) Assists: Thomas McNamara (7) Assists: Jordan Murrell (6) SEPTEMBER Points: Thomas McNamara (21) Points: Emil Ekblom (21) 2 HARTWICK W, 2-0 Saves: Andrew Tarbell (24) Saves: Alex Bono (45) 6 at Virginia Tech * L, 1-2 (OT) Shots: Thomas McNamara (39) Shots: Emil Ekblom (46) 9 MANHATTAN (TWCS) W, 4-1 13 #4 NOTRE DAME * L, 0-3 17 #12 CONNECTICUT W, 1-0 SETTING THE SCENE 20 at Duke * W, 2-1 • Syracuse welcomes Clemson to the SU Soccer Stadium on Friday, Nov. 1. The Orange ba les the Tigers at 7 25 MASSACHUSETTS W, 3-0 p.m. its home fi nale. 28 VIRGINIA * L, 0-2 • The Orange has two ACC matches remaining and sits in 11th place in the league standings. The top eight team qualify for the conference tournament. SU travels to ACC frontrunner Wake Forest for its fi nal regular OCTOBER season match Friday, Nov. 8. 1 BINGHAMTON (TWCS) W, 2-1 (2OT) • Live stats for the Clemson game are available at SUAthle cs.com. 4 NC STATE * W, 5-0 8 at Boston College * L, 2-3 12 PITTSBURGH * T, 0-0 (2OT) SERIES HISTORY 18 at #21 UNC * (ACC RSN/ESPN3) L, 0-1 • Saturday’s match represents the fi rst mee ng between Syracuse and Clemson. 22 at Albany W, 2-0 • The Tigers are one of fi ve teams the Orange have or will play for the fi rst me in 2013. The others are 26 #12 MARYLAND * L, 0-1 Manha an, Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland. SU defeated Manha an 1-0 on Sept. 9 and suff ered losses to Virginia (2-0) on Sept. 28, North Carolina (1-0) on Oct. 18, and Maryland (1-0) on Oct. 26. NOVEMBER 1 #19 CLEMSON * 7 p.m. 8 at Wake Forest * 7 p.m. LAST TIME OUT ACC Men’s Soccer Championship • Dan Metzger scored the game’s only goal in the 56th minute to lead Maryland past Syracuse, 1-0, on 12 Quarterfinals TBA Saturday, Oct. 26 at the SU Soccer Stadium. 15 Semifinals TBA • It was an evenly played match with Maryland recording eight shots and SU tallying seven. (at Germantown, Md.) • Maryland goalkeeper Zack Steff en made his only save late in the match, denying Chris Nanco with a diving 17 Final TBA stop that preserved the clean sheet. (at Germantown, Md.) • The Orange defense held NCAA leading scorer Patrick Mullins to one shot in the match. NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship 21 First Round TBA 24 Second Round TBA SYRACUSE ORANGE STARTING XI DECEMBER 1 Third Round TBA No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. G A P Notes 6-8 Quarterfinals TBA 2 Oyvind Alseth M 6-0 Fr. 0 4 4 Second on the team in assists (4) 13-15 College Cup TBA 3 Skylar Thomas D 6-3 Jr. 1 0 2 Scored the game-winner vs. NC State (10/4) (at Chester, Pa.) 4 Jordan Murrell D 5-10 Jr. 0 6 6 T-10th on SU’s all- me list with 13 career assists 7 Alex Halis M 5-9 Fr. 5 1 11 Team-high 3 game-winning goals Home games in BOLD CAPS 8 Nick Perea M 5-10 Jr. 3 1 7 Team co-captain * - ACC match 9 Stefanos Stamoulacatos M 5-10 So. 2 0 4 Scored 5th goal of his career vs. Binghamton (10/1) TWCS - Time Warner Cable SportsChannel 14 Emil Ekblom F 5-11 Fr. 9 3 21 NSCAA Division I Player of the Week (10/8) ACC RSN - ACC Regional Sports Network 17 Chris Nanco F 5-6 Fr. 4 1 9 Scored the game-winner at Duke (9/20) 20 Chris Makowski D 5-11 Jr. 0 1 1 Has played 1,475 out of a possible 1,482 minutes 28 Brandon Albert D 6-2 R-So. 0 0 0 Started 8 games, 4 of which were shutouts Pos. Ht. Yr. SV GA GAA Notes 25 Alex Bono GK 6-3 So. 45 15 0.91 4th at SU with 17 career shutouts New York’s College Team • Page 1 SCOUTING THE TIGERS #ORANGENATION 2013 QUICK FACTS • Clemson has a 10-4-2 record, including a 5-2-2 • SU has ranked in the top 50 na onally in home mark in ACC play. The Tigers are fourth in the a endance in six of the last seven years, averaging General Information ACC and have clinched a berth in the conference almost 900 fans per game during that span. School .....................................Syracuse University tournament. • Syracuse achieved its highest a endance ranking City/Zip .................................Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 • Thomas McNamara leads the team with 21 points in school history (No. 20) in 2012. At least 1,000 fans Founded ........................................................1870 on seven goals and seven assists. Ara Amirkhanian a ended seven of the team’s eight home matches Enrollment ..................................................13,850 has 14 points (six goals, two assists) and Manolo last year. Nickname .................................................. Orange Sanchez has 12 (fi ve goals, two assists) follow • SU’s 2013 home opener against Hartwick a racted School Color .............................................. Orange McNamara atop the team’s scoring chart. a crowd of 1,633, the third-largest crowd in SU Home Field ..............................SU Soccer Stadium • Clemson goalkeeper Andrew Tarbell has started 10 Soccer Stadium history. Capacity ................................................1,500 contests for the Tigers, including the last two. He has • An SU Soccer Stadium record of 1,803 fans were in Surface ..................................................Grass 24 saves and a 1.05 goals-against average. a endance for the Sept. 28 match against Virginia. Affiliation .......................................NCAA Divsion I • Mike Noonan is in his fourth season at the helm in • So far this season, Syracuse (1,007) is one of eight Conference ......................................Atlantic Coast Clemson a er a 15-year s nt at Brown. The Tigers ACC programs averaging more than 1,000 fans per Chancellor ..............................Eric Spina (Interim) reached the ACC semifi nals last season. home game. Athletics Director ...........................Dr. Daryl Gross Athletic Department Phone ........... 315-443-8705 ELECTRIC EKBLOM YOUTHFUL EXUBERANCE • Rookie Emil Ekblom is second in the ACC in goals • The Syracuse freshman class has been especially Coaching Staff (9) and ed with Clemon’s Thomas McNamara for produc ve this season. Orange newcomers have Head Coach ...................................... Ian McIntyre second in points (21). accounted for 18 of the team’s 28 goals, as well as Alma Mater/Year ...................Hartwick, 1996 • In consecu ve games against NC State and Boston nine assists. Record at Syracuse (Years) ...........28-34-8 (4) College, Ekblom totaled 11 points on fi ve goals and • SU’s three leading goal-scorers are all rookies as Career Record (Years).............135-98-40 (15) one assist. Emil Ekblom (9 goals), Alex Halis (5) and Chris Nanco Soccer Office Phone ....................... 315-443-3025 • Ekblom posted SU’s fi rst hat trick since 2008 and (4) sit atop the SU goals chart. Assistant Coaches ...........................Jukka Masalin set an SU Stadium record with seven points (three • Freshman Oyvind Alseth has four assists. Ekblom ............................................................ Mike Miller goals, one assist) against the Wolfpack. has three, while Halis and Nanco have one apiece. • Following his performance against NC State, he • Halis was ranked No. 5 on TopDrawerSoccer’s Men’s Soccer Information was named the Disney Soccer/NSCAA Division I na onal midseason list of the Top 100 Freshmen. 2012 Overall Record ...................................14-6-1 Men’s Player of the Week and the ECAC co-Off ensive Nanco (No. 20) and Ekblom (No. 45) were each in Home ....................................................5-3-0 Player of the Week. He also earned spots on the the top 50. Away .....................................................7-2-1 TopDrawerSoccer.com and College Soccer News Neutral ..................................................2-1-0 Na onal Teams of the Week. Conference Record .......................................5-3-0 MAGIC NUMBER • Ekblom is three goals shy of tying Mark DiMonte’s Finish ........................2nd - BIG EAST Red Division • Syracuse is 226-16-7 (.922) all- me when scoring rookie record of 12 goals scored during the 1984 Final Ranking ...................................17th (NSCAA) at least three goals in a game, including 39 straight season. Players Returning/Lost ................................ 16/10 wins. • Ekblom also has three assists on the year. Starters Returning/Lost * ................................6/5 • The last me SU lost when registering at least First Season of Soccer ...................................1920 three goals in a game was on Oct.