Pirates Visit Butler On Saturday Night

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – The Seton Hall men's soccer team (3-9-1, 1-4-0 BIG EAST) continues the stretch run of the regular season and visits No. 19 Butler (8-4-1, 3-2-0) on Saturday night. Kick-off from the Butler Bowl is set for 7 p.m. in a contest available on the BIG EAST Digital Network and FOX Sports GO app.

The Pirates are winless in three all-time appearances against Butler, with each meeting coming since BU joined the league prior to the 2013 campaign. In SHU's last visit to Indianapolis in 2014 the two squads played to a scoreless draw as Julian Spindler (Weiersbach, Germany) notched a three-save clean sheet.

The Hall is coming off a 1-0 setback to Providence in its last outing on Saturday, while Butler also fell last weekend by a score of 2-1 to St. John's. The Bulldogs currently sit third in the league table with nine points, six ahead of the Pirates currently in ninth.

Quick Kicks

Andres Arcila (Cartagena, Colombia) leads The Hall and ranks sixth in the BIG EAST with 16 points on the year, coming off six goals and four assists
Freshman Jonathan Jimenez (Cape Coral, Fla.) has had a productive offensive season with a pair of goals and four assists, ranking top-10 in the conference in helpers
The Pirates rank in the top-half of the conference in shots per game, firing 13.2 attempts an outing
Spindler has seen the majority of action in goal this season and holds a 1.61 GAA with a .672 save perecentage and a shutout

Scouting Butler

The Bulldogs enter the match with an 8-4-1 record and a No. 19 ranking in the NSCAA poll
David Goldsmith leads the BIG EAST in goals (10), points (23) and shots (56) to power the BU offense
Lewis Suddick has scored eight goals and totaled 18 points, while Isaac Galliford and Jared Timmer each have notched 10 points
Eric Dick has played every minute in goal and notched a 1.20 GAA and a .738 save percentage with a total of four shutouts
The Bulldogs have nearly doubled up opponents on the year, holding an overall 28-16 edge in goals

What's Ahead
Following Saturday night's match, The Hall returns home for its final two matches of the season at Owen T. Carroll Field. First up is Georgetown on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.