Men's Soccer Hosts Holy Cross Saturday on Senior Day

Holy Cross (4-8-4, 0-4-3 PL) at Bucknell (2-12-1, 1-5-1 PL)
When: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2 p.m.
Where: Emmitt Field at Holmes Stadium, Lewisburg, Pa.
Streaming: ESPN+
Live Stats: BucknellBison.com

Bucknell at a Glance

The Bison host Holy Cross on Saturday in the final home game of the 2022 regular season. Bucknell will finish up at Loyola on Wednesday.
With two Patriot League matchdays remaining, only first-place Army has clinched a postseason berth. Bucknell is in ninth place in the table with four points but is still alive for one of the six tourney bids. The Bison would need two wins and quite a bit of help to catch Lafayette and Loyola, who are currently tied for sixth on nine points. Lehigh is one back with eight points.
Bucknell will honor its five seniors prior to Saturday's game with Holy Cross. Chris Masur, Eddie Perez-Pelaez, Jameson Railey, Bennett Schwartz, and Mo Tall will be playing their final games at Emmitt Field.
Bucknell has been idle since last Saturday but is coming off two strong performances last week. The Bison took No. 4 Syracuse right down to the wire before falling 2-1, and then they controlled large chunks of Saturday's 1-1 draw with Colgate.
Head coach Dave Brandt has had six freshmen in his starting XI in each of those two games. Zane Domsohn has emerged as a center forward. He made his first two starts last week and scored his first goal in the Colgate game. It was a beauty, coming on a diving header in front of goal off assists from Waldemar Kattrup and Zane Domsohn.
Freshman Charlie Holmes also had a memorable first goal last week. It came against a Syracuse team that was ranked fifth nationally at the time in goals allowed at 0.50 per game. Holmes had a great first touch to settle a pass from Perez-Pelaez, then he deked his defender to create space for a curling shot off the right post and in. The goal tied the game at 1-1 in the 12th minute. Holmes earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors on Monday.
Also honored on Monday was freshman Freddie Lapworth, who was named the Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week. Lapworth kept the Bison in the Syracuse match with big save after big save. He stopped a penalty kick in the 75th minute and finished with 12 saves on the night, the most by a Bucknell goalkeeper in more than 17 years. The last Bison netminder to stop at least 12 shots was Adam Edwards, who tallied 14 saves in a 3-0 loss to Towson in a tournament at James Madison on Sept. 4, 2005.
Tall leads the Bison in goals (3) and points (8) this season. All three of his goals have come on dead balls – two on direct free kicks from outside the box and the third on a PK at Army. The penalty was the result of a hand ball in the box off a free kick by Tall.
Tall has been a neat story for the Bison in 2022. A senior from Burkina Faso in East Africa, Tall missed all of last season due to injury, and he was limited to just five games in the COVID-modified 2021 spring season. This year he has started all 15 games in the midfield and has enjoyed a productive season. His three goals are the first three of his career.
An 84th-minute goal from Sebastian Paz helped deliver the 2-1 win over Lehigh, Bucknell's lone conference victory thus far. Tall in the 22nd minute scored on a direct free kick, but Lehigh equalized early in the second half. Paz gave the Bison all three points with a first-touch finish off a nicely threaded through ball from Cade McGrath. Bucknell outshot Lehigh 22-9 in the match.
McGrath is second on the squad with two goals, both coming in Patriot League play. He also tallied at American.
Dave Brandt is Bucknell's 14th full-time head coach and just the third dating back to 1967. Brandt, who was hired in December after interim head coach Matt Brown guided the squad last season, brought with him a remarkable career record of 354-86-40 in stints at Messiah, Navy, and Hope. His .779 winning percentage was 20th-best in NCAA men's soccer history among coaches from all divisions with a minimum of 10 years. Brandt won six Division III national championships at Messiah and led Navy to the 2013 Patriot League title and an NCAA Tournament first-round win.
Brandt's first Bucknell squad is a young one, with 16 of the 27 players on the roster in their freshman or sophomore year. The Bison returned 14 players who saw game action last year, including leading scorer Jordan Miller.

Holy Cross at a Glance

The Crusaders have tied their last two Patriot League matches against American and Navy, with a 5-0 non-league loss to Harvard in between. Holy Cross also drew at Lehigh on Oct. 1 but is still looking for its first PL victory.
Holy Cross has been solid at home (3-2-2) this season but is 1-6-2 on the road. The lone win was a wild 5-4 verdict at UMass-Lowell on Sept. 6.
Evan Jones, the 2021 Patriot League Rookie of the Year, had a hat trick in that game and leads the team with five goals on the season. His other scores came in league play against Army and Navy.
Jack Ostrosky has four goals, and Jon Klein and Matt McGonigle both have two goals and four assists.
The Crusaders have scored 18 goals in 16 games this season but have allowed 30.
Four different goalkeepers have seen action this fall, with Josh Tubbs seeing the most action. The sophomore has made 13 appearances with 12 starts and has 44 saves with 25 goals allowed.
Holy Cross went 5-3-1 in league play last season and was the No. 3 seed in the Patriot League Tournament. The Crusaders fell to No. 6 Army 1-0 in the quarterfinal round.

The Bucknell-Holy Cross Series

Bucknell is 14-11-6 in 31 previous meetings with Holy Cross. The teams first clashed in the Patriot League's inaugural season in 1990.
The Bison and Crusaders squared off once per season – they have never met in the postseason – all the way up through 2019. They were in opposite divisions in the COVID-modified spring 2021 season and did not play.
The Bison were 7-1-3 in their previous 11 against Holy Cross, but the Crusaders won 4-1 last season in Worcester. Jameson Railey tied the game at 1-1 in the 64th minute, with Holy Cross goalkeeper Jimmy Joyce shown a red card on the play. But only 90 seconds later, Max Krause put 10-man Holy Cross back in front. Jake Williams followed less than two minutes after that, and Krause added another in the 87th minute to make it 4-1.
Patrick O'Hara's golden goal in the second overtime period gave the Bison their most recent win over Holy Cross, 2-1 in 2019. Railey also scored for Bucknell late in the first half, before Krause equalized in the 55th minute for Holy Cross.
Bucknell's 2018 victory also extended well into extra time, with Matt Thorsheim providing the winning goal in the 109th minute off a feed from Alex Clarke.
Bucknell has scored in 17 straight games against Holy Cross, dating back to a 0-0 draw in Lewisburg in 2003.

Next Up

Bucknell closes the regular season next Wednesday at Loyola at 7 p.m. The Greyhounds play at Navy on Saturday before hosting the Bison.

Men's Soccer Hosts Holy Cross Saturday on Senior Day

Players Mentioned

Alex Clarke

Zane Domsohn

Charlie Holmes

Waldemar Kattrup

Freddie Lapworth

Chris Masur

Cade McGrath

Jordan Miller

Patrick O'Hara

Sebastian Paz

Eddie Perez-Pelaez

Jameson Railey

Bennett Schwartz

Mo Tall

Matt Thorsheim

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