Pirates Head to Cincinnati for a Match at Xavier, Wednesday

CINCINNATI, OHIO – The Seton Hall men's soccer team will return to action on Wednesday, Oct. 23 when it travels to Cincinnati, Ohio for a BIG EAST contest against Xavier. Kick-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

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The game will be carried live by the BIG EAST Digital Network which fans can access via Caffeine.tv or YouTube.

PIRATES DROP CONTEST WITH BUTLER
The Pirates fell to Butler on Saturday, 4-0. The loss dropped The Hall to 2-3-0 in conference play and 5-6-0 overall. The Bulldogs got on the board early with a goal from Joel Harvey in the 15th minute, his second of the season. Harvey controlled a rebound off Pirate goalkeeper Andreas Nota (Rome, Italy), slid to a stop, and put the ball into the open net to get the Georgetown offense started.

SCOUTING XAVIER
Seton Hall and Xavier will meet for only the seventh time in history on Wednesday. The Musketeers are 5-1 all-time against Seton Hall. Last year, The Hall dropped a heartbreaker in overtime to Xavier by a score of 2-1 on a cold and rainy night on Saturday at Owen T. Carroll Field. CJ Tibbling (Järna, Sweden) scored in the 38th minute to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead, an advantage they held until the final minutes of regulation. In the 83rd minute, a foul was called in the box during a Xavier free kick which led to an equalizing penalty kick conversion.

In the 97th minute, Xavier was able to find a winner with a lobbed header from Simen Hestnes that snuck over the outstretched arms of an on-rushing Andreas Nota.

This year, Xavier enters Wednesday's contest with a 5-6-1 overall record and a 1-4 mark in BIG EAST play. They are 3-3 at home so far this season. The Musketeers have lost four of their last five matches, but all have been by one goal. Most recently, they fell at No. 13 Georgetown, 1-0, on Saturday. Their lone BIG EAST victory so far this season was a 1-0 win at home against Creighton on Oct. 11.

Entering the season, Xavier was picked to finish fifth in the 10-team BIG EAST Preseason Poll. Senior Samson Sergi was named to the Preseason All-Conference Team.

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Graduate student Stephen Elias (Rye, N.Y.) is 10^th in the BIG EAST with 0.91 point per game.
Nota ranks third in the BIG EAST with 53 saves and eighth with a .791 save percentage.
The Pirates have out-scored their opponents, 17-to-14, this season.
Elias leads the team with 10 points, twice as much as teammates Carlton McKenzie (Birmingham, England) and Sean MacLeod (Troon, Scotland), who are tied for second on the unit in points.
Seton Hall's 128 fouls are the second-fewest in the BIG EAST this season.
On Oct. 7, junior Love Frederiksson (Angelholm, Sweden) was named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, while goalkeeper Andreas Nota (Rome, Italy) earned Weekly Honor Roll status.
On Sept. 2, Elias was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week. He was also named to the Honor Roll on Sept. 30.
Seton Hall's six goals against Central Connecticut State on Aug. 30 are tied for the most scored by any BIG EAST soccer team in a single match so far this year.

WHAT'S AHEAD
Seton Hall will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 26 when it returns to Owen T. Carroll Field for a match against local BIG EAST rival St. John's. The match is scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. and will be carried by the BIG EAST Digital Network.