Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Men's Soccer Hosts Adelphi on Bison Vision, Colgate on Senior Night this Week
10/19/2010 8:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 19, 2010
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- The Bison men's soccer team has a two-game home week on tap against a couple of teams from the state of New York, starting with a non-conference game against Adelphi on Wednesday night at Emmitt Field, followed by a critical Senior Night showdown with Patriot League rival Colgate on Saturday night. The Adelphi game will be broadcast live on Bison Vision starting at 7 p.m., and the Colgate game will also start at 7 p.m., with the senior recognition taking place at approximately 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday's game will be the first-ever meeting between Bucknell and Adelphi in men's soccer. The Panthers play soccer at the Division I level in the Atlantic Soccer Conference, along with Longwood, Howard, NJIT and Houston Baptist. In fact, Adelphi leads the ASC with a 1-0-1 record and four points. Overall, the Panthers are 7-5-1 on the season and 2-0-1 in their last three games, including Sunday's 2-0 blanking of another "Bison" team in Howard.
As is normally the case, the Bucknell-Colgate game will have significant Patriot League Tournament implications. The Raiders, who were ranked No. 24 nationally two weeks ago, currently sit at the top of the table with a 4-0 record and 12 points. American is second with 10 points, while Bucknell and Lehigh both sit in playoff position with 2-1-1 records and seven points. Navy (5), Lafayette (3), Holy Cross (1) and Army (0) all need to move up in order to qualify for the four-team Patriot League Tournament.
Colgate is 7-3-3 overall heading into Tuesday night's game at No. 4 Maryland. While the Raiders are 4-0 in league play, they have interspersed mid-week, non-conference losses among those four wins. Since Sept. 24, Colgate has beaten PL foes Lehigh, Holy Cross, Army and Lafayette by a combined score of 5-0, but over that span the Raiders have fallen to Long Island, Syracuse and Cornell.
Bucknell is coming off a 2-1 home win over Army on Friday evening. Josh Plump scored in the first half for the Bison, and then after the Black Knights came back to tie it, Andrew Powell plastered a shot from long range that found the left side netting, giving Bucknell a 2-1 lead early in the second half.
The Bison are 3-1-1 in their last five games, and their next three contests are all at home, where they are 3-2 on the year. These will be the final home contests for three seniors: Ross Liberati, Tommy McCabe and Travis Rand.
Coverage
• Click HERE for live video of Bucknell-Adelphi on Bison Vision.
• Click HERE for Bucknell-Adelphi live stats on GameTracker. 
• Click HERE for Bucknell-Colgate live stats on GameTracker.
Adelphi Series Notes
• This will be the first meeting between Bucknell and Adelphi.
Colgate Series Notes
• These two teams first met in 1963, and Colgate holds a 22-8-5 series lead over the Bison.
• The Raiders and Bison squared off in all but one season from 1963-75, and now every year since 1989.
• Bucknell beat Colgate in four out of five years from 1999-2003, but since then the Raiders are 4-1-2 in the series.
• Andrew Powell's game-winning goal against Army on Friday was reminiscent of the one he scored to beat Colgate in last year's meeting in Hamilton, N.Y. In that game, the Bison trailed 1-0 with 10 minutes remaining in the game, but Josh Plump scored in the 81st minute and Powell hit a rocket from about 35 yards out with 1:52 remaining to win it. Alex Weekes scored Colgate's goal in the first half.
• The last time the Bison and Raiders met in Lewisburg in 2008, Colgate prevailed 1-0 on a Chris Ross goal in the 17th minute. Bucknell's national-best 28-game scoring streak came to an end that night, and the Bison have been shut out only twice since then (in the 2009 NCAA Tournament second round against Virginia, and earlier this season at College of Charleston).
Bison Notebook
• Andrew Powell's goal against Army was the third of his career. All three have been second-half game-winning goals.
• Josh Plump scored in the first half against Army, tying him with Brendan Burgdorf for the team lead in goals with four. Burgdorf assisted on the play, however, giving him nine points on the season, one more than Plump. Ross Liberati (3-1-7) and Luke Joyner (2-3-7) have seven points apiece and Tommy McCabe (1-4-6) has six.
• The Bison have scored at least one goal in all but one game this season, and in 66 of their last 68 games dating back to 2007.
• Goalkeeper Marc Hartmann has started the last five games, and he has a 1.05 goals-against average on the season. He has a 3-1 record and one shutout. Against Army, Hartmann made three saves, all of them difficult testers in the second half.
• Burgdorf leads all Patriot League players with 37 shot attempts. He is tied for sixth in the league in points, and Burgdorf and Plump are tied for fourth in goals.
• The Bison are the Patriot League's No. 2 scoring team with 18 goals, but their 21 goals allowed are also second-most in the league.
About Adelphi
• The Panthers' 2010 victories have come against Fordham (1-0 OT), Syracuse (1-0 OT), Iona (2-0), VMI (4-0), Penn (1-0), Hartwick (1-0) and Howard (2-0), and they have a 0-0 tie against Longwood.
• Alexander Kouznetsov leads the team in goals (3) and points (7). John Koutsounadis, Sam Vanaria, Issa Tall and Mauricio Mora have two goals each for Adelphi, with has outscored its opponents 14-11 in 13 games this season.
• Thorne Holder, a Maryland transfer, has been the most frequently used goalkeeper. He has 12 appearances and 10 starts, and has 39 saves with 11 goals against.
• Head coach Carlo Acquista has nine foreign players on the roster, incling its top scorer, Kouznetsov, who is from Sweden. Acquista has posted a 36-24-8 record three-plus seasons at Adelphi, and he is the two-time defending ASC Coach of the Year.
• Last season, Adelphi finished 13-2-4 overall and won the ASC regular-season and tournament titles. The Panthers had not lost at home in more than two years until dropping a couple of games in September on their Garden City, N.Y., campus.
About Colgate
• The Raiders top scorer with Matt Schuber with eight points on three goals and two assists. Steven Miller has three goals and one assist for seven points, while Mike Reidy and Shane conlin have two goals apiece.
• Colgate has conceded only nine goals in 13 games and is outshooting foes 190-123.
• Chris Miller has started 11 of the 13 games in goal and has a .784 save percentage with 29 saves and eight goals allowed.
• Ten of Colgate's 13 goals have come after halftime, including overtime tallies against Stony Brook and Siena in back-to-back games early in the year.
• Colgate has a league-high seven shutouts on the season, and the Raiders and Navy are the league's only teams allowing less than a goal per game.
• Senior Jeff Leach was picked as the Patriot League Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.
Looking Ahead
Following Saturday's game against Colgate, the Bison wrap up the home portion of the regular-season schedule on Tuesday, Oct. 26, against NJIT.
