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2018 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Overall Record: 2-8-1 Big Ten Record: 1-4-0 RUTGERS HOWARD Home: 0-3-1 Away: 2-4-0 Neutral: 0-0-0 SCARLET BISON KNIGHTS AUGUST 2018 Record: 2-8-1 Overall, 1-4-0 Big Ten 2018 Record: 1-5-3 Overall, 0-1-0 Sun Belt Fri. 24 @ Loyola (Md.) ..................................L, 0-3 Last Result: L, 2-4 at RV Wisconsin - Oct. 7 Last Result: T, 1-2 - vs. Ga. Southern - Oct. 6 Head Coach: Phillip Gyau (Howard ‘87) Mon. 27 @ UMBC ............................................L, 2-3 Head Coach: Dan Donigan (Connecticut ‘93) Overall: 171-132-38/18th Season Overall: 7-67-13/Fifth Season Fri. 31 @ Mt. St. Mary’s ............................... W, 2-0 At Rutgers: 53-90-15/Ninth Season At Howard: 7-67-13/Fifth Season SEPTEMBER TWO HOME GAME WEEK GAMEDAY CENTRAL: TUESDAY, OCT. 9 Sun. 2 ELON ..........................................L, 1-8 The Rutgers men’s soccer team has a pair of OPPONENT: Howard Sat. 8 HARTFORD .................................T, 2-2 home games on tap this week with a noncon- VENUE: Yurcak Field - Fri. 14 (RV) MICHIGAN * ........................L, 0-2 ference clash with Howard on Tuesday night Piscataway, N.J. and a Big Ten matchup with Northwestern KICK-OFF: 7:00 p.m. Tue. 18 MARIST ................................ Canceled on Friday night. Both games kickoff at 7 p.m. VIDEO: BTN Plus Fri. 21 @ #5 Michigan St. * ..........................L, 1-2 from Yurcak Field on BTN Plus. (Lou Brogno & Glenn Crooks) RADIO: WRSU Wed. 26 MARYLAND * ..............................L, 0-2 The Scarlet Knights are coming off a 4-2 (Justin Sontupe and Kervy Robles) Sun. 30 @ Ohio St. * .............................W, 3-2 (OT) setback at Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon. LIVESTATS: ScarletKnight.com The Badgers were receiving votes in last week’s United Soccer Coaches Poll following OCTOBER an upset win of then-No. 5 Michigan State the UP NEXT: FRIDAY, OCT. 12 Tue. 2 DREXEL .......................................L, 2-3 previous week. OPPONENT: Northwestern Sun. 7 @ (RV) Wisconsin * ...........................L, 2-4 Junior forward Jordan Hall scored twice for VENUE: Yurcak Field - Piscataway, N.J. Tue. 9 HOWARD ................................. 7 p.m. the Scarlet Knights in the loss, his second multiple scoring effort of the season. KICK-OFF: 7:00 p.m. Fri. 12 NORTHWESTERN * ................... 7 p.m. VIDEO: BTN Plus Tue. 16 @ Lafayatte .......................................7 p.m. Five minutes after the Badgers went up 2-0, (Lou Brogno & Glenn Crooks) Hall helped RU to halve its deficit as redshirt RADIO: WRSU Fri. 19 INDIANA * ................................ 7 p.m. senior Miles Hackett controlled a pass at the (Justin Sontupe and Allie Palmer) Tue. 23 @ Columbia ......................................7 p.m. top of the 18 to feed the Manchester, Eng- LIVESTATS: ScarletKnight.com land native, who found the opening and fired Sun. 28 @ Penn. St. * .....................................4 p.m. from 20 yards out with this right foot into the left post. FOLLOW US NOVEMBER Hall put away his second goal of the game Big Ten Tournament and ninth of the season in the 84th minute Nov. 3-11 catching the Badger defense off-guard on a RutgersMensSoccer strike from 24 yards out. Home Games in BOLD CAPS * B1G Game @RUMensSoccer All Times Eastern and subject to change RUTGERS ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Kimberly Zivkovich, Director (MSoc) RUMensSoccer Cell: 732-690-6716 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @KimZSID RUTGERS MEN’S SOCCER GAME NOTES 2018 RUTGERS SCARLET KNIGHTS RUTGERS MEDIA POLICY PRESS SERVICES No. Name Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown/High School/Previous School Club Team The Athletic Communications Office will provide NCAA box scores and scoring 1 Rafael Pereira GK Sr. 6-0 165 Lisbon, Portugal/Escola Secundaria VergilioFerreira/Marshalltown CC summaries approximately 15 minutes after 2 Thomas DeVizio D Fr. 5-7 145 Scotch Plains, N.J/Scotch Plains-Fanwood PDA the game. Up-to- date statistics, as well as 3 Tyejae Burchall MF So. 5-8 150 Pembroke, Bermuda/South Kent School Black Rock FC post-game notes, will be available approxi- mately 30 minutes after the game. 4 Bryce Washington D So. 6-2 165 Atlanta, Ga./North Atlanta Atlanta United 5 Federico Gutierrez D So. 6-5 200 Montevideo, Uruguay/Instituto Juan XXIII Proplayer United All information will also be posted on the Rutgers website at ScarletKnights.com fol- 6 Andrew Murray MF Fr. 5-10 155 Scotch Plains, N.J./Scotch Plains-Fanwood PDA lowing the match. 7 Kyle Galloway MF So. 5-10 140 Manahawkin, N.J./Pennington Holmdel FC/NJX Sounders GAME COVERAGE 8 Tim McQuaid MF Jr. 6-2 160 Roswell, Ga./Blessed Trinity Catholic Concorde Fire We ask that you call in advance if you 9 Jordan Hall F Jr. 5-9 165 Manchester, England/Mississippi Gulf Coast College plan to cover the game in-person. Seating 10 Brian Hawkins F Jr.-r 5-11 165 Chesterfield, N.J./Notre Dame PDA within the press box is limited and on a first-come, first serve basis. Post-game 11 Sean Dailey MF So. 5-10 165 East Windsor, N.J./Peddie School MatchFit filing can be done from the Yurcak Field 12 Miles Hackett F Sr.-r 6-0 165 Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley/South Kent SDFC Gauchos Press Box, which is equipped with wireless internet. 14 Zeno Mazzucato D So. 5-11 175 Princeton, N.J./Princeton PDA 15 Brandon Golden D So. 5-11 175 Morganville, N.J./YSC Academy Philadelphia Union INTERVIEW REQUESTS Player interviews are to be arranged 16 Vincenzo Pugliese MF So. 5-7 155 West Windsor, N.J./West Windsor-Plainsboro North MatchFit through Kimberly Zivkovich. Please try 17 Aaron Acloque MF So. 5-8 175 Ringoes, N.J./Immaculata PDA to give as much advance notice so that a 18 Vincent Borden D So. 6-3 185 Ithaca, N.Y./Red Bulls Academy NY Redbull convenient time can be arranged for both the student-athlete and the member of 19 Alex Kaczynski D/MF Sr. 5-9 150 Medford, N.J./Shawnee MatchFit the media. Coach Donigan and student 20 Nick Cruz MF Fr. 5-7 150 Monroe, N.J./St. Joseph’s MatchFit athletes are typically available prior to morning practices. 21 Seth Turner D Fr. 5-9 150 San Pedro, Calif./San Pedro Fram Lawson 22 Kyle Goodwin F Sr.-r 6-0 185 So. Brunswick, N.J./So. Brunswick/Montclair St. NY Redbull BIG TEN 23 Chris Hawkins MF So. 6-1 160 Chesterfield, N.J./Notre Dame MatchFit The Big Ten will announce its weekly award winners on Monday afternoons 24 Miles Franklyn F So. 6-3 175 Teaneck, N.J./Bergan Catholic MatchFit during the season. At that time, up-to- 26 Thomas Dovell MF/F Sr. 5-8 150 Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown Philadelphia SC date notes, statistics and standings will be available on the Big Ten website at www. 27 Brendan Wall MF/F So. 5-9 155 Holmdel, N.J./Ranney School bigten.org. 28 Dominik Demcak F Fr. 5-6 135 Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater STA 29 Jake Longo D Jr. 6-0 170 Scotch Plains, N.J./Scotch Plains-Fanwood Metuchen Rovers QUICK FACTS 30 Brian Shushkovsky GK Sr. 5-11 155 Morganville, N.J./Freehold Township MatchFit Founded: 1766 32 Niko Lovoulos D So. 6-0 175 Holmdel, N.J./Holmdel NJCSA Enrollment: 67,000 President: Dr. Robert L. Barchi 99 Joe Bruno GK Jr.-r 6-3 195 Edison, N.J./St. Joseph’s/Lafayette PDA Director of Athletics: Patrick Hobbs Nickname: Scarlet Knights Head Coach: Dan Donigan (Connecticut, ‘93), eighth season Conference: Big Ten Associate Head Coach: Dave Beck, eighth season Field: Yurcak Field (5,000) Assistant Coach: Tyler Stakiwicz, second season TEAM INFORMATION Volunteer Assistant Coach: Gerry McKeown, first season 2017 Overall Record: 4-13-1 Director of Operations: Bryant Knibbs, fifth season 2017 Big Ten Record/Finish: 0-8-0/9th 2017 Postseason: N/A PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Letterwinners R/L: 13/5 TYEJAE BURCHALL ty-zh-a birch-all ZENO MAZZUCATO z-knew m-azz-a-cot-o Starters R/L: 6/5 Vincenzo PUGLIESE pug-lease Aaron ACLOQUE a-cloak Newcomers: 14 Head Coach: Dan Donigan (Connecticut ‘93) NIKO LOVOULOS knee-co love-o-lus Overall Record: 171-132-38/18th Season Record at RU: 53-90-15/Ninth Season Tyler STAKIWICZ stack-uh-witz Assoc. Head Coach: Dave Beck - Ninth Season Asst. Coach: Tyler Stakiwicz - Third Season Dir. of Ops: Bryant Knibbs - Fifth Season Dir. of Player Development: Tom Shields - First Season RUTGERS MEN’S SOCCER GAME NOTES TEAM COMPARISONS - HOWARD Big Ten Standings (as of 10/8/18) CONFERENCE OVERALL RU HU Goals-Shot Attempts 15-114 8-98 Record Pct Pts Record Pct. Goals Scored Per Game 1.36 0.89 Shot Pct. .132 .082 Indiana 4-0-0 1.000 12 10-2-0 .833 Shots on Goal-Attempts 42-114 43-98 SOG Pct. .368 .439 Michigan 3-1-1 .700 10 8-2-1 .773 Shots Per Game 10.4 10.9 Assists 9 5 Michigan State 3-1-0 .750 9 8-1-2 .818 Corner Kicks 44 45 Penalty Kicks 1-2 1-2 Wisconsin 3-1-0 .750 9 6-4-2 .583 Yellow Cards 23 19 Red Cards 0 3 Maryland 2-2-0 .500 6 4-4-2 .500 Penn State 1-2-2 .400 5 2-6-2 .300 All-Time Series: FIRST MEETING Rutgers 1-4-0 .200 3 2-8-1 .227 Northwestern 0-3-2 .200 2 4-5-3 .458 Ohio State 0-3-1 .125 1 1-80-2 .182 ABOUT HOWARD Rutgers men’s soccer was one of a total of 773 Both of Hackett’s scores were game winners Howard enters Tuesday night’s contest at 1-5-3 collegiate soccer teams (289 men, 484 women) lifting the Scarlet Knights to victories against overall and is coming off a 2-1 loss to Georgia who posted a 3.0 or higher grade point aver- in-state rivals Princeton and NJIT a year ago.