Wednesday, November 2
Niagara Falls, N.Y. / Niagara Field
2:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Niagara
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Bobcats, Purple Eagles Battle in Regular-Season Finale
11/1/2022 6:33:00 PM | Men's Soccer
QU Clinches Top Seed With a Victory
Quinnipiac (11-3-3, 6-1-2 MAAC) at Niagara (4-8-5, 3-2-4 MAAC)
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Niagara Field | Niagara Falls, NY
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Stream: ESPN+
Live Stats: PurpleEagles.com
NIAGARA FALLS – Quinnipiac men's soccer closes out the 2022 regular season on the road on Wednesday afternoon, as the Bobcats travel to Niagara for a 2:00 PM midweek start time.
The Bobcats (20 points in the MAAC standings) sit atop the league heading into the final day of the regular season. QU is one point ahead of Iona and Manhattan, and can clinch the No. 1 seed in the conference postseason tournament with a victory.
UNBEATEN STREAK
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Niagara Field | Niagara Falls, NY
Follow The Action:
Stream: ESPN+
Live Stats: PurpleEagles.com
NIAGARA FALLS – Quinnipiac men's soccer closes out the 2022 regular season on the road on Wednesday afternoon, as the Bobcats travel to Niagara for a 2:00 PM midweek start time.
The Bobcats (20 points in the MAAC standings) sit atop the league heading into the final day of the regular season. QU is one point ahead of Iona and Manhattan, and can clinch the No. 1 seed in the conference postseason tournament with a victory.
UNBEATEN STREAK
- The Bobcats are currently on an eight-game unbeaten streak, outscoring opponents 21-5 during that span.
- QU's defense has posted four consecutive clean sheets.
- Niagara enters at 3-2-4 in the MAAC. The Purple Eagles most recently played to a 0-0 draw at Manhattan on Oct. 29.
- Rodrigo Almeida leads Niagara in scoring with six goals and three assists for 15 total points. Gabriel Mikina has chipped in with five goals of his own.
- QU is 7-2-2 vs. Niagara since 2000. The Purple Eagles took the matchup between the two programs last year in Hamden.
- Quinnipiac men's soccer improved to 8-0-1 at home, downing Canisius by the final score of 2-0 on Saturday afternoon at the QU Soccer Stadium.
- Brage Aasen scored twice to lead the way for the Bobcats, who clinched a first-round bye in the 2022 MAAC Tournament with the win. QU sits atop the league standings at 20 points with one game remaining.
- The Bobcats have recorded four straight clean sheets in MAAC play and extended its unbeaten streak to eight games.
- The Bobcats have scored 2.71 goals per game so far this year, which ranks No. 2 nationally behind only Charlotte (2.93 goals per contest).
- QU ranks No. 5 in assists per game (2.88), and No. 4 in goal differential (+26).
- Captain David Bercedo has 11 goals on the season – which ranks 7th in the country.
- 20 different Bobcats have recorded a goal or an assist this year.
- Senior captain David Bercedo leads QU in goals (11) and points (28).
- Alexander Stjernegaard has a team-best nine assists in his first year at QU. He also has four goals.
- Tomas Svecula has six goals and four assists, and Brage Aasen has four goals and four helpers.
- The Bobcats were selected No. 4 in the 2022 Men's Soccer Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the MAAC office on Thursday, Aug. 18.
- QU earned 78 points in the poll, finishing just behind Marist, Rider and Fairfield for the top spot.
- Senior forward Brage Aasen – Quinnipiac's leading goal scorer from a season ago – was named to the Preseason All-MAAC team for Quinnipiac. Aasen recorded a team-best 11 goals to go along with three assists last year. The All-MAAC selection from a season ago has tallied 17 goals and 13 assists over his first 43 collegiate games.
- Former Quinnipiac standout Eric Da Costa will enter his 18th season at the helm of the Bobcats men's soccer program in the fall of 2022. He is the longest tenured men's soccer coach in Quinnipiac's NCAA history.
- A product of Quinnipiac's strong soccer tradition, Da Costa's formula for success and his reputation for assembling winning teams are evident after 16 seasons at his alma mater. Da Costa has a 138-120-52 record during his time at Quinnipiac, and has led the Bobcats to a postseason conference tournament appearance in nine of the last 10 seasons (2012 in the NEC, 2013-spring 2021 in the MAAC).
- Since joining the MAAC prior to the 2013 season, Quinnipiac has appeared in four MAAC Tournament title contests (2013, 2016, 2018, spring 2021). Under Da Costa's tutelage, the Bobcats have posted an impressive 59-23-13 mark in regular season MAAC games.
- Quinnipiac's fall 2022 schedule features 18 regular season contests in total.
- The Bobcats will host nine home games at the QU Soccer Stadium in Hamden.
- QU begins MAAC play on Wednesday, Sept. 28, when the Bobcats travel to Loudonville, N.Y. for a date with Siena. The Bobcats then return home to the QU Soccer Field for their MAAC home opener against in-state rival Fairfield on Oct. 1.
- The Bobcats won nine games in the fall 2021 campaign, going 6-3 at the QU Soccer Stadium in Hamden. QU won five consecutive games to begin the season, defeating Boston College (first time since 2007), UMass Lowell, Sacred Heart, CCSU and Harvard.
- The Bobcats received votes twice in the fall of 2021 for the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll – which recognizes the top Division I programs in the nation. Da Costa and the Bobcats claimed three All-MAAC awards at the end of the regular season: Brage Aasen: All-MAAC First Team, Paulo Soares: All-MAAC Second Team, Sam McCann: MAAC All-Rookie Team.
- Quinnipiac finished 9-8 in total (4-6 MAAC).
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