1996 National Champions • Four College Cups • 20 NCAA Tournaments Nine BIG EAST Tournament Championships • Six BIG EAST Regular Season Championships 2021 SPRING SCHEDULE & 2021 MEN’S SOCCER GAME NOTES RESULTS Game ST. JOHN’S RED STORM (4-3-0, 2-3-0 BIG EAST) Day Date Opponent Time/Result 8 VS. Mon. Feb. 15 SAINT JOSEPH’S W, 1-0 Thurs. Feb. 18 FORDHAM PPD NO. 22 SETON HALL PIRATES (5-1-2, 3-1-1 BIG EAST) Sun. Feb. 21 NJIT Canceled Tues. Feb. 23 STONY BROOK W, 4-2 M ARC H 17, 2021- 6:00 P.M. Sat. Feb. 27 • at Seton Hall L, 1-0 Q UEE ns , N . Y. / B EL S O N S TADIU M Wed. March 3 • CONNECTICUT W, 2-0 Sat. March 6 • VILLANOVA L, 1-0 (OT) E S P N 3 Wed. March 10 • at No. 13 Providence W, 2-0 Sat. March 13 • at No. 3 Georgetown L, 1-0 Wed. March 17 • SETON HALL 6 p.m. ST. JOHNS’ TO WELCOME NO. 22 SETON HALL Sat. March 20 • at Connecticut 2 p.m. • After splitting a two-game road swing against a pair of ranked foes, the St. John’s men’s soc- Sat. March 27 • at Villanova 3:30 p.m. cer team will return to Belson Stadium for another ranked game on Wednesday night when Sat. April 3 • PROVIDENCE 6 p.m. it hosts No. 22 Seton Hall. Kick-off is set for 6 p.m. on ESPN3 with John Fanta on the call. Sat. April 10 • GEORGETOWN 3:30 p.m. • This past week, the Red Storm went 1-1 in a two-game stretch of road contests against op- BIG EAST Championship ponents ranked in the top 13 of the United Soccer Coaches poll. The Johnnies downed No. Wed. April 14 Semifinal TBA 13 Providence, 2-0, on Wednesday afternoon in Rhode Island before falling to No. 3 George- Sat. April 17 Final TBA town, 1-0, on Saturday in the nation’s capital. • denotes BIG EAST opponent • In that Wednesday win over the Friars, the Johnnies scored twice in the final 30 minutes, as All BIG EAST Tournament contests will be played at the Tani Oluwaseyi netted the game-winner in the 63rd minute off an assist from Drew Rosen higher seed. before assisting on a Wesley Leggett insurance goal in the 90th minute. Oluwaseyi, who All times are ET unless otherwise noted. missed the Villanova loss with a lower body injury, came off the bench in the 58th minute Home games in BOLD CAPS of Wednesday’s victory. For his efforts, the reigning BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year was rewarded with a spot on the conference’s weekly honor roll for the third time in four opportunities this spring. The junior forward from Mississauga, Ont., ranks second in the league with five goals, four of which have been game-winners, and leads the BIG EAST with a 2.00 point-per-game average. • The Red Storm enters its midweek contest against Seton Hall with an overall record of 4-3-0, including a 2-3-0 mark in BIG EAST play. All three of the Johnnies’ conference falters have been by the score of 1-0, including an Feb. 27 loss in South Orange in the first meeting between these two teams. Seton Hall is currently tied with Georgetown (3-0-1, 10 pts) for the top spot in the conference’s East Division. Providence (2-2-1, 7 pts) is in third, one point MEDIA INFORMATION clear of St. John’s in (2-3-0, 6 pts) in fourth. Only the top two teams from each division will qualify for the BIG EAST Men’s Soccer Championship, which is set to begin on April 14 at campus sites. MSOC Contact: ................ Andrew O’Connell Office Phone: ............................718-990-1522 • Three of the Red Storm’s four wins this year have come via the shutout. Luka Gavran and Mobile Phone: ..........................516-581-3229 Jan Hoffelner have split time in net every game so far this season. In each of the team’s Email [email protected] first five games, Hoffelner started things off before Gavran took over at halftime. Last Athletic Comm. Phone: ............718-990-1520 week, the Johnnies flipped the script, giving Gavran the start and bringing in Hoffelner, the reigning BIG EAST Co-Goalkeeper of the Year, at the intermission. As a team, the Johnnies Athletics Website: www.RedStormSports.com rank fourth in the BIG EAST and 39th nationally with a 0.71 goals against average, one spot behind Seton Hall in both the conference and national rankings at 0.70. SJU VS. SETON HALL TALE OF THE TAPE SJU record vs. Seton Hall ..................25-13-4 TRACKING THE STORM First Mtg: ........SJU 0 SHU 0 (OT) (10/27/79) St. John’s Seton Hall Last Mtg: ..................SHU 1 SJU 0 (2/27/21) Games 6 8 Follow St. John’s Soccer on Twitter Head Coach:... ............... Andreas Lindberg Record 4-3-0 5-1-2 and Instagram! Record at Seton Hall (Yrs.)..........17-17-5 (3) Goals 9 11 @StJohnsMSoccer (#SJUMSOC) Assists 10 12 LAST FIVE MEETINGS Points 28 34 Follow St. John’s Soccer on YouTube! SHU 1 SJU 0 ................................. 2/27/21 (A) Shots 65 89 SJU 1 SHU 1 (2OT) ..................... 10/26/19 (A) Shot % .138 .124 St. John’s Red Storm SJU 1 SHU 0 ................................. 9/15/18 (H) YC 13 20 QUICK HITS SJU 1 SHU 0 ................................. 9/16/17 (A) PK-Att 1-1 1-2 SJU 1 SHU 0 ................................. 9/24/16 (H) Goals against 5 6 GAA 0.71 0.70 Save % .828 .760 Shutouts 3 5 SCOUTING SETON HALL • Seton Hall, ranked 22nd according to United Soccer Coaches and 18th in the latest TopDrawerSoc- cer and College Soccer News polls, comes to Queens with just one loss on its record this season, a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Georgetown in D.C. The Pirates are the only team to score a goal against the Hoyas this season. • In their most recent outing, the Pirates handed then-No. 13 Providence its second consecutive loss, rallying from an early one-goal deficit to remain unbeaten in their last three. • Four Pirates have found the back of the net multiple times this year, led by junior forward CJ Tib- bling with three goals and an assist. Luca Dahn, who scored the equalizer against Providence, has two goals and an assist, as does Johannes Pex. Paavo Riihjarvi, who scored the lone goal in the last meeting between these two teams, also has a pair of tallies on the season. • Goalkeeper Andreas Nota has started six of his seven appearances on the year, including each of the team’s five BIG EAST matches. The senior from Rome, Italy, has four solos shutouts and com- bined for another. SPRING 2021 ST. JOHN’S RED STORM (Numerical Roster) No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Class Hometown/Last School 00 Jack Gjokaj GK 5-11 170 Fr. Thornwood, N.Y./Westlake 0.. Ryan Foley GK 6-4 185 Fr. Malverne, N.Y./Valley Stream North 1.. Luka Gavran GK 6-6 200 R-So. Hamilton, Ontario/St. Jean de Brebeuf 2.. Jared Juleau D 5-6 130 So. Stamford, Conn./Westhill 3.. Anthony Herbert D 6-3 185 Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y./Fairleigh Dickinson 4.. Matt Chandler D 6-6 200 Jr. Toronto, Ontario/Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute 5.. Atila Ashrafi M 6-2 165 So. Cologne, Germany/Gymnasium Rodenkirchen 6.. Sanoussi Sangary D 5-9 130 Jr. Bronx, N.Y./Martin Luther King 7.. Einar Lye M 6-4 185 Jr. Undheim, Norway/University of Stavanger 8 . Ossian Hallberg M 6-1 185 Fr. Kalmar, Sweden/Stagneliusskolan 9.. Josiah Crawford F 5-11 165 Jr. Berkeley Heights, N.J./Governor Livingston 10 Brandon Knapp M/D 5-10 150 Jr. Abingdon, Md./Archbishop Curley 11 Drew Rosen F 5-7 170 Jr. New York, N.Y./Winston Prep 12 Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau F 5-9 170 Fr. Ottawa, Ontario/Colonel By 14 Tani Oluwaseyi F/M 6-2 170 Jr. Mississauga, Ontario/St. Joan of Arc 15 Matt Forster M 5-7 145 R-Sr. Bedford, England/Sharnbrook Upper School 16 Nuno Reigones D 5-11 150 Jr. Covilha, Portugal/Universidade de Beira Interior 18 Luke Hansen D 6-2 165 Jr. West Windsor, N.J./West Windsor-Plainsboro South 19 Wesley Leggett F 5-9 So. Lawrence, N.J./UConn 20 Conlan Paventi F 5-9 140 Fr. Lambertville, N.J./South Hunterdon 21 Ethan Shaw M 5-10 150 Jr. Chesterfield, N.J./Northern Burlington Regional 22 Tommy Scalici F 5-10 150 R-Fr. Denville, N.J./Morris Knolls 23 Shawn Coles M 5-6 160 R-Fr. Smithtown, N.Y./Hauppauge 24 Rafael Bustamante D 5-7 150 Sr. Corona, N.Y./Manhattan Hunter Science 25 Jared Subarsky D 5-9 160 So. Livingston, N.J./Fairleigh Dickinson 26 Jack Blumberg D 5-9 155 Fr. Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape 27 Jack Russo D/M 5-11 160 R-Fr. Holmdel, N.J./Holmdel 28 Constantinos Nicolaou F 6-0 155 Fr. Little Neck, N.Y./St. Francis Prep 29 Johan Aquilon D 5-10 155 Sr. Paris, France/Lycee Cours Peret Bordeaux 30 Mateo Marra F 5-10 135 R-Fr. Ossining, N.Y./Ossining 31 Jan Hoffelner GK 6-3 180 Sr. Frankfurt a.M., Germany/Presbyterian 32 John DiCocco D 5-10 160 Fr. Queens, N.Y./St.