No. 6 Men's Soccer Opens Season Friday With Gonzaga
8/27/2008 10:15:00 AM | Men's Soccer
#6 Creighton hosts Gonzaga
Friday, Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m. ? Morrison Stadium ? Omaha, Neb.
Following the Jays: Every Creighton home match this season can be followed on the internet via live stats and live video at www.gocreighton.com. Live stats for all home matches can be viewed free with gametracker by clicking on the ?Live Stats' link. Fans can subscribe to watch a live video stream of the Bluejays' home matches via the ?Live Video' link.
This Week: The Bluejays open the regular-season by playing host to fellow Jesuit institution Gonzaga Friday night as part of the annual Ameritas Classic and Getting Blue BBQ and as the second game of a doubleheader with the women's soccer team (vs. North Dakota State, 5 p.m.). Kick off for the men's match is slated for 7:30 p.m. Student meal plans will be accepted at the BBQ and the cash price is $7.25 for adults and $5.00 for children. The BBQ begins at 4:30 p.m. View more information on the BBQ here.
Preseason Summary: Creighton finished 2-1-0 in the exhibition season, allowing just one goal in 270 minutes of action. The Jays crushed the Nebraska Club Team, 5-0, in their only home exhibition match on Aug. 15. CU then was narrowly edged by the Kansas City Wizards of MLS, 1-0, on Aug. 18. They bounced back to blank ninth-ranked and 2007 NCAA runner-up, Ohio State, 3-0, in Columbus last Sunday. Junior Jeff Thayer scored two goals and had two assists to lead the Bluejay attack in the preseason. Time in net was split between redshirt freshmen Brian Holt and Nick Goldreich.
Scouting Creighton: The sixth-ranked Bluejays are the defending Missouri Valley Conference regular-season co-champions and have been tabbed as the preseason favorite to win the conference again this year. The Jays return 12 letterwinners and seven starters from last year's 12-3-5 team which advanced to its 16th straight NCAA Tournament and lost just once in the regular-season. CU welcomes nine newcomers to the team, including three transfers and six true freshmen. The roster lists 12 freshmen out of 26 student-athletes. Creighton's senior trio of Andrei Gotsmanov, Seth Sinovic and Tim Walters are expected to help lead the Bluejays this year. Gotsmanov, a midfielder, is joined by junior forward Byron Dacy on the preseason MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List. Dacy returns to action this year after a torn ACL kept him out of action last year and earned him a medical redshirt. Junior defender Chris Schuler joins Gotsmanov, Dacy and Sinovic on the MVC preseason team. CU must replace two-time MVC Defensive Player of the Year Matt Allen in goal. Allen played every minute in net last year and owns CU career records for minutes played and shutouts.
Scouting Gonzaga: The Bulldogs posted a 9-7-4 overall record last year, enough to earn an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, where they lost 1-0 to SMU in the first round. In fact, Gonzaga was shutout in its final five games last year, losing four 1-0 games to end the season. The Bulldogs finished fourth in the West Coast Conference with a 4-4-4 mark, but are picked to finish sixth (of seven) this year after losing 10 seniors and seven starters from last year's squad. Tye Perdido is GU's leading returning scorer with three goals and an assist in 2007. GU logged six shutouts and posted a 0.71 goals against average last year, while the Bulldogs also need to replace a record-setting goalkeeper in net. The departed Vito Higgins (now a GU assistant coach) played every minute in goal for Gonzaga last year.
Head Coach: Head coach Bob Warming (Berea, 1975) is in his second stint as the Bluejays' head coach with a 167-55-27 (.725) record in his 13th season at CU. His overall record is 360-174-57 (.657) in his 31st year of coaching. Warming, the MVC All-Centennial Coach and the all-time winningest soccer coach at CU, has guided teams to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, is a five-time finalist for National Coach of the Year and is a two-time MVC Coach of the Year. He was named the NSCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 2005 and ranked sixth among active Division I coaches in career victories to open the year.
CU-GU Series: The Bluejays and Bulldogs are meeting on the soccer pitch for just the second time. Gonzaga won the first meeting between the teams, 1-0, at Tranquility Park in Omaha on Sept. 26, 1999.
Season Openers: The Bluejays' tied San Diego State 2-2 to open the season last year, moving CU's record to 7-1-4 in season-openers under head coach Bob Warming. Since 1990 CU has lost just two season debuts, losing 1-0 to No. 12 Indiana in 2006 and falling to No. 20 Duke in Bret Simon's first game as the Bluejay head coach on Sept. 2, 1995. The Bluejays are undefeated in their last 12 home openers (9-0-3), with the Duke loss counting as the last home-opening defeat.
Warming's 250th: Friday's match against Gonzaga will mark head coach Bob Warming's 250th game as Creighton's head coach. Warming has coached 151 games at CU since returning in 2001, while he coached 98 games at Creighton in his first stint at CU between 1990-94.
Home Sweet Morrison: The Bluejays are now 37-8-10 (.764) all-time at Morrison Stadium, posting a 6-3-4 mark last year. Prior to the three home losses in 2007, CU had lost just one home match in each of its previous three seasons. Since 1990, the Bluejays are 139-24-15 (.823) at home. CU is 51-4-3 at home all-time in MVC play, including 16-1-2 at Morrison Stadium. CU's lone Valley loss at Morrison Stadium was a 1-0 defeat to No. 17 SMU on Oct. 1, 2004. The Jays have ranked in the top-10 in the nation in attendance all five years that Morrison Stadium has been open.
Preseason Favorites: The Missouri Valley Conference coaches have tabbed the Bluejays as preseason favorites for the fourth straight season. CU received five of the six first-place votes to total 35 points. Evansville is picked to finish second with 27 points, while Missouri State picked up the other first-place vote, despite being picked to finish last in the league.
CU in Preseason Polls: The Bluejays are ranked in the top-10 in each of the four major soccer preseason polls. The NSCAA/adidas poll has CU ranked sixth, followed by a ranking of seventh from College Soccer News. Soccer Times ranks CU eighth in its preseason poll, while Soccer America has the Jays ninth. Creighton's ranking of sixth in the NSCAA/adidas poll is its highest preseason ranking in that poll since the 2001 team was ranked second coming off of its appearance in the 2000 NCAA Championship match.
Keeping Keepers: There is no doubt experience in goal helps, but there is proof in Creighton's past that demonstrates that experience isn't necessary for success. This season the Bluejays return zero career minutes in goal, with three redshirt freshmen goalkeepers on the roster. The Jays have never previously returned zero minutes in net. In fact, both previous times CU returned 202 career minutes in goal or fewer, it reached the College Cup.
The fewest career goalkeeping minutes the Jays have returned prior to this season came during the 2000 campaign. Mike Gabb had played 179 career minutes before the 2000 season, a year the Bluejays would lead the NCAA with 22 wins and appear in the NCAA championship match. The second-fewest minutes the Jays have returned came in 1996, when Jon Epperson entered the year with 202 career minutes. He helped lead the Bluejays to their first College Cup Final Four that season.
Fantastic Fans: Creighton ranked third in the nation in overall attendance in 2007, while it finished fourth in average attendance last year. The Jays brought in 34,308 fans for an average of 2,639 per game. CU's match against UCLA last year drew a school-record 5,812 fans, while two other 2007 crowds ranked in the CU top-10.
Home-Opening Attendance: Bluejay fans typically make the home-opener a highly-attended contest. Since moving to Morrison Stadium in 2003, the average attendance at CU home-openers is 3,152. Three home-opening crowds have topped 3,400, including the previous two seasons of better than 3,700. See the list below.
Home-Openers at Morrison Stadium
Year Opponent Attendance
2007 San Diego State 3,716
2006 Georgetown 3,746
2005 Loyola (Ill.) 2,728
2004 Western Michigan 2,089
2003 Butler 3,483
Byron is Back: Junior forward Byron Dacy returns to the pitch this season after appearing in just two regular-season matches in 2007 following a preseason injury. Dacy tore his left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in CU's exhibition with Ohio State last year. Despite that injury, he still managed to play in two regular-season games, even scoring the game-winning goal against Loyola Marymount (Sept. 15). He underwent surgery to repair the ACL on Oct. 10 and hopes to see a return to normal minutes this season.
The injury is not preventing Dacy from receiving preseason accolades. College Soccer News named him a second-team preseason All-American, while he appears on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List for the third straight year.
Senior Citizens: Creighton has three seniors ? Andrei Gotsmanov, Seth Sinovic, Tim Walters ? listed on its roster this season, the fewest since the 1998 team also had just three seniors on the squad - Marc Madeley, Richard Mulrooney and Patrick Parker.
Start Me Up: Creighton returns six players who started at least half of the Jays' games last year, while three more returners started at least seven contests. Returners Andrei Gotsmanov, Jeff Thayer, Seth Sinovic and Chris Schuler started all 20 matches last year, while Sergio Castillo started 19. Tim Walters started half of CU's 20 contests a year ago. CU lost four senior starters from last year's squad, including two-time MVC Defensive Player of the Year Matt Allen, who played every minute in goal last year. Other senior starters gone from last year are Tim Bohnenkamp, Danny Minutillo and Tony Schmitz.
National Player of the Year Candidates: For the second straight season, two Bluejays have been placed on the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List, a preseason list for the award annually given to the top soccer player in Division I. Junior Byron Dacy is on the preseason watch list for the third straight year, even after playing just two matches and redshirting last year because of a torn ACL. Senior Andrei Gotsmanov, who led the team with six goals and 17 points last year, joins Dacy on the list. Last year, Matt Allen was nominated along with Dacy to begin the season. Gotsmanov and Dacy are now on the long list of National Player of the Year candidates from Creighton, including the 1997 winner and current assistant coach, Johnny Torres.
CU National Player of the Year Candidates
Year Player
2008 Byron Dacy & Andrei Gotsmanov
2007 Byron Dacy & Matt Allen
2006 Byron Dacy
2004 Julian Nash
2003 David Wagenfuhr
2002 Mike Tranchilla
2001 Mike Tranchilla
1997 Johnny Torres (Won)
1996 Ross Paule
1993 Keith DeFini & Brian Kamler
Nine Newcomers: CU's incoming class of nine players ? six true freshmen and three transfers ? was ranked as the 16th-best recruiting class in the country according to College Soccer News. The Jays have 12 freshmen on their roster, five of whom redshirted with the Bluejays last year. Junior Akin Akinrinade (Central Florida), sophomore Kyle Deremer (St. Mary's) and freshman Tim Krueger (Hastings) have transferred into the program. Deremer and Krueger were teammates on Millard North's undefeated state championship team in 2007. Akinrinade, Krueger, along with freshmen Greg Jordan and Ethan Finlay all enrolled and trained at Creighton this spring.
Dairy State Products: A pair of freshmen from Wisconsin have been tabbed among “100 Freshmen to Keep an Eye On” according to College Soccer News. Ethan Finlay and Stew Brown, club teammates for FC Milwaukee, both earned the notice. Finlay was recognized by Rise Magazine as a top-30 national recruit and was an NSCAA Youth All-American, while Brown was an NSCAA High School All-American and named the most outstanding player at the US Youth Soccer National Championships in 2007.
OT Info: Creighton established a school record last year by tying five contests. The Jays trumped the former record of four set by the 2003 team. CU's overtime match at Drake on Nov. 3 also tied the school record for overtime matches in a season at eight, established in 2006 when the team was 3-2-3 in overtime matches. CU went 3-0-5 in overtime in 2007.
Broken Records: In his first season at Creighton last year, Andrei Gotsmanov established two Morrison Stadium records. The attacking midfielder launched a stadium record 10 shots against Bradley on Oct. 10 and totalled a school-record 48 shots at Morrison Stadium on the season. His five goals and 17 shots on goal at Morrison Stadium rank second in a season in facility history, while his 13 points at the stadium were the third most in single-season history for the venue.
Last Year in Brief: Creighton lost just one regular-season match in 2007 and finished the year with a 12-3-5 record in the third round of the NCAA Tournament - its 16th straight appearance in the NCAA postseason. The Jays ran off an 11-match unbeaten streak during their season, while posting a 4-0-2 mark in Missouri Valley Conference play for their first unbeaten record in MVC play since 1996. CU shared the MVC regular-season crown with Bradley for the second straight year. All-American Matt Allen became the first player in league history to twice be named MVC Defensive Player of the Year, while he wrapped up his career with CU records for minutes played and shutouts.
Free Tickets: Creighton men's soccer is teaming up with the Omaha Housing Authority to help provide soccer shoes and shin guards for the OHA's newly formed soccer programs and you can help! At the four men's soccer home games in September, simply bring a pair of used soccer shoes or shin guards and receive a pair of free tickets to that night's game. There will be collection bins at the main entrance on the west side of the stadium for drop off of the used items starting with next Friday's match against Portland.
Friday, Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m. ? Morrison Stadium ? Omaha, Neb.
Following the Jays: Every Creighton home match this season can be followed on the internet via live stats and live video at www.gocreighton.com. Live stats for all home matches can be viewed free with gametracker by clicking on the ?Live Stats' link. Fans can subscribe to watch a live video stream of the Bluejays' home matches via the ?Live Video' link.
This Week: The Bluejays open the regular-season by playing host to fellow Jesuit institution Gonzaga Friday night as part of the annual Ameritas Classic and Getting Blue BBQ and as the second game of a doubleheader with the women's soccer team (vs. North Dakota State, 5 p.m.). Kick off for the men's match is slated for 7:30 p.m. Student meal plans will be accepted at the BBQ and the cash price is $7.25 for adults and $5.00 for children. The BBQ begins at 4:30 p.m. View more information on the BBQ here.
Preseason Summary: Creighton finished 2-1-0 in the exhibition season, allowing just one goal in 270 minutes of action. The Jays crushed the Nebraska Club Team, 5-0, in their only home exhibition match on Aug. 15. CU then was narrowly edged by the Kansas City Wizards of MLS, 1-0, on Aug. 18. They bounced back to blank ninth-ranked and 2007 NCAA runner-up, Ohio State, 3-0, in Columbus last Sunday. Junior Jeff Thayer scored two goals and had two assists to lead the Bluejay attack in the preseason. Time in net was split between redshirt freshmen Brian Holt and Nick Goldreich.
Scouting Creighton: The sixth-ranked Bluejays are the defending Missouri Valley Conference regular-season co-champions and have been tabbed as the preseason favorite to win the conference again this year. The Jays return 12 letterwinners and seven starters from last year's 12-3-5 team which advanced to its 16th straight NCAA Tournament and lost just once in the regular-season. CU welcomes nine newcomers to the team, including three transfers and six true freshmen. The roster lists 12 freshmen out of 26 student-athletes. Creighton's senior trio of Andrei Gotsmanov, Seth Sinovic and Tim Walters are expected to help lead the Bluejays this year. Gotsmanov, a midfielder, is joined by junior forward Byron Dacy on the preseason MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List. Dacy returns to action this year after a torn ACL kept him out of action last year and earned him a medical redshirt. Junior defender Chris Schuler joins Gotsmanov, Dacy and Sinovic on the MVC preseason team. CU must replace two-time MVC Defensive Player of the Year Matt Allen in goal. Allen played every minute in net last year and owns CU career records for minutes played and shutouts.
Scouting Gonzaga: The Bulldogs posted a 9-7-4 overall record last year, enough to earn an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, where they lost 1-0 to SMU in the first round. In fact, Gonzaga was shutout in its final five games last year, losing four 1-0 games to end the season. The Bulldogs finished fourth in the West Coast Conference with a 4-4-4 mark, but are picked to finish sixth (of seven) this year after losing 10 seniors and seven starters from last year's squad. Tye Perdido is GU's leading returning scorer with three goals and an assist in 2007. GU logged six shutouts and posted a 0.71 goals against average last year, while the Bulldogs also need to replace a record-setting goalkeeper in net. The departed Vito Higgins (now a GU assistant coach) played every minute in goal for Gonzaga last year.
Head Coach: Head coach Bob Warming (Berea, 1975) is in his second stint as the Bluejays' head coach with a 167-55-27 (.725) record in his 13th season at CU. His overall record is 360-174-57 (.657) in his 31st year of coaching. Warming, the MVC All-Centennial Coach and the all-time winningest soccer coach at CU, has guided teams to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, is a five-time finalist for National Coach of the Year and is a two-time MVC Coach of the Year. He was named the NSCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 2005 and ranked sixth among active Division I coaches in career victories to open the year.
CU-GU Series: The Bluejays and Bulldogs are meeting on the soccer pitch for just the second time. Gonzaga won the first meeting between the teams, 1-0, at Tranquility Park in Omaha on Sept. 26, 1999.
Season Openers: The Bluejays' tied San Diego State 2-2 to open the season last year, moving CU's record to 7-1-4 in season-openers under head coach Bob Warming. Since 1990 CU has lost just two season debuts, losing 1-0 to No. 12 Indiana in 2006 and falling to No. 20 Duke in Bret Simon's first game as the Bluejay head coach on Sept. 2, 1995. The Bluejays are undefeated in their last 12 home openers (9-0-3), with the Duke loss counting as the last home-opening defeat.
Warming's 250th: Friday's match against Gonzaga will mark head coach Bob Warming's 250th game as Creighton's head coach. Warming has coached 151 games at CU since returning in 2001, while he coached 98 games at Creighton in his first stint at CU between 1990-94.
Home Sweet Morrison: The Bluejays are now 37-8-10 (.764) all-time at Morrison Stadium, posting a 6-3-4 mark last year. Prior to the three home losses in 2007, CU had lost just one home match in each of its previous three seasons. Since 1990, the Bluejays are 139-24-15 (.823) at home. CU is 51-4-3 at home all-time in MVC play, including 16-1-2 at Morrison Stadium. CU's lone Valley loss at Morrison Stadium was a 1-0 defeat to No. 17 SMU on Oct. 1, 2004. The Jays have ranked in the top-10 in the nation in attendance all five years that Morrison Stadium has been open.
Preseason Favorites: The Missouri Valley Conference coaches have tabbed the Bluejays as preseason favorites for the fourth straight season. CU received five of the six first-place votes to total 35 points. Evansville is picked to finish second with 27 points, while Missouri State picked up the other first-place vote, despite being picked to finish last in the league.
CU in Preseason Polls: The Bluejays are ranked in the top-10 in each of the four major soccer preseason polls. The NSCAA/adidas poll has CU ranked sixth, followed by a ranking of seventh from College Soccer News. Soccer Times ranks CU eighth in its preseason poll, while Soccer America has the Jays ninth. Creighton's ranking of sixth in the NSCAA/adidas poll is its highest preseason ranking in that poll since the 2001 team was ranked second coming off of its appearance in the 2000 NCAA Championship match.
Keeping Keepers: There is no doubt experience in goal helps, but there is proof in Creighton's past that demonstrates that experience isn't necessary for success. This season the Bluejays return zero career minutes in goal, with three redshirt freshmen goalkeepers on the roster. The Jays have never previously returned zero minutes in net. In fact, both previous times CU returned 202 career minutes in goal or fewer, it reached the College Cup.
The fewest career goalkeeping minutes the Jays have returned prior to this season came during the 2000 campaign. Mike Gabb had played 179 career minutes before the 2000 season, a year the Bluejays would lead the NCAA with 22 wins and appear in the NCAA championship match. The second-fewest minutes the Jays have returned came in 1996, when Jon Epperson entered the year with 202 career minutes. He helped lead the Bluejays to their first College Cup Final Four that season.
Fantastic Fans: Creighton ranked third in the nation in overall attendance in 2007, while it finished fourth in average attendance last year. The Jays brought in 34,308 fans for an average of 2,639 per game. CU's match against UCLA last year drew a school-record 5,812 fans, while two other 2007 crowds ranked in the CU top-10.
Home-Opening Attendance: Bluejay fans typically make the home-opener a highly-attended contest. Since moving to Morrison Stadium in 2003, the average attendance at CU home-openers is 3,152. Three home-opening crowds have topped 3,400, including the previous two seasons of better than 3,700. See the list below.
Home-Openers at Morrison Stadium
Year Opponent Attendance
2007 San Diego State 3,716
2006 Georgetown 3,746
2005 Loyola (Ill.) 2,728
2004 Western Michigan 2,089
2003 Butler 3,483
Byron is Back: Junior forward Byron Dacy returns to the pitch this season after appearing in just two regular-season matches in 2007 following a preseason injury. Dacy tore his left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in CU's exhibition with Ohio State last year. Despite that injury, he still managed to play in two regular-season games, even scoring the game-winning goal against Loyola Marymount (Sept. 15). He underwent surgery to repair the ACL on Oct. 10 and hopes to see a return to normal minutes this season.
The injury is not preventing Dacy from receiving preseason accolades. College Soccer News named him a second-team preseason All-American, while he appears on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List for the third straight year.
Senior Citizens: Creighton has three seniors ? Andrei Gotsmanov, Seth Sinovic, Tim Walters ? listed on its roster this season, the fewest since the 1998 team also had just three seniors on the squad - Marc Madeley, Richard Mulrooney and Patrick Parker.
Start Me Up: Creighton returns six players who started at least half of the Jays' games last year, while three more returners started at least seven contests. Returners Andrei Gotsmanov, Jeff Thayer, Seth Sinovic and Chris Schuler started all 20 matches last year, while Sergio Castillo started 19. Tim Walters started half of CU's 20 contests a year ago. CU lost four senior starters from last year's squad, including two-time MVC Defensive Player of the Year Matt Allen, who played every minute in goal last year. Other senior starters gone from last year are Tim Bohnenkamp, Danny Minutillo and Tony Schmitz.
National Player of the Year Candidates: For the second straight season, two Bluejays have been placed on the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List, a preseason list for the award annually given to the top soccer player in Division I. Junior Byron Dacy is on the preseason watch list for the third straight year, even after playing just two matches and redshirting last year because of a torn ACL. Senior Andrei Gotsmanov, who led the team with six goals and 17 points last year, joins Dacy on the list. Last year, Matt Allen was nominated along with Dacy to begin the season. Gotsmanov and Dacy are now on the long list of National Player of the Year candidates from Creighton, including the 1997 winner and current assistant coach, Johnny Torres.
CU National Player of the Year Candidates
Year Player
2008 Byron Dacy & Andrei Gotsmanov
2007 Byron Dacy & Matt Allen
2006 Byron Dacy
2004 Julian Nash
2003 David Wagenfuhr
2002 Mike Tranchilla
2001 Mike Tranchilla
1997 Johnny Torres (Won)
1996 Ross Paule
1993 Keith DeFini & Brian Kamler
Nine Newcomers: CU's incoming class of nine players ? six true freshmen and three transfers ? was ranked as the 16th-best recruiting class in the country according to College Soccer News. The Jays have 12 freshmen on their roster, five of whom redshirted with the Bluejays last year. Junior Akin Akinrinade (Central Florida), sophomore Kyle Deremer (St. Mary's) and freshman Tim Krueger (Hastings) have transferred into the program. Deremer and Krueger were teammates on Millard North's undefeated state championship team in 2007. Akinrinade, Krueger, along with freshmen Greg Jordan and Ethan Finlay all enrolled and trained at Creighton this spring.
Dairy State Products: A pair of freshmen from Wisconsin have been tabbed among “100 Freshmen to Keep an Eye On” according to College Soccer News. Ethan Finlay and Stew Brown, club teammates for FC Milwaukee, both earned the notice. Finlay was recognized by Rise Magazine as a top-30 national recruit and was an NSCAA Youth All-American, while Brown was an NSCAA High School All-American and named the most outstanding player at the US Youth Soccer National Championships in 2007.
OT Info: Creighton established a school record last year by tying five contests. The Jays trumped the former record of four set by the 2003 team. CU's overtime match at Drake on Nov. 3 also tied the school record for overtime matches in a season at eight, established in 2006 when the team was 3-2-3 in overtime matches. CU went 3-0-5 in overtime in 2007.
Broken Records: In his first season at Creighton last year, Andrei Gotsmanov established two Morrison Stadium records. The attacking midfielder launched a stadium record 10 shots against Bradley on Oct. 10 and totalled a school-record 48 shots at Morrison Stadium on the season. His five goals and 17 shots on goal at Morrison Stadium rank second in a season in facility history, while his 13 points at the stadium were the third most in single-season history for the venue.
Last Year in Brief: Creighton lost just one regular-season match in 2007 and finished the year with a 12-3-5 record in the third round of the NCAA Tournament - its 16th straight appearance in the NCAA postseason. The Jays ran off an 11-match unbeaten streak during their season, while posting a 4-0-2 mark in Missouri Valley Conference play for their first unbeaten record in MVC play since 1996. CU shared the MVC regular-season crown with Bradley for the second straight year. All-American Matt Allen became the first player in league history to twice be named MVC Defensive Player of the Year, while he wrapped up his career with CU records for minutes played and shutouts.
Free Tickets: Creighton men's soccer is teaming up with the Omaha Housing Authority to help provide soccer shoes and shin guards for the OHA's newly formed soccer programs and you can help! At the four men's soccer home games in September, simply bring a pair of used soccer shoes or shin guards and receive a pair of free tickets to that night's game. There will be collection bins at the main entrance on the west side of the stadium for drop off of the used items starting with next Friday's match against Portland.
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