Unbeaten Bruins Journey to ACC’s Louisville Tuesday

Belmont (6-0-4, 1-0-1 MVC) at Louisville (5-4-1, 1-4-0 ACC)

Tuesday, Oct. 7 | 5 p.m. CT/6 p.m. ET

Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium | Louisville, Ky.

 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Stepping out of Missouri Valley Conference play, the Belmont University males’s soccer staff travels to the University of Louisville Tuesday for a 5 p.m. CT/6 p.m. ET kickoff from Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.
 
The Bruins’ closing non-conference match of the season might be broadcast on ACC Network Extra with Jonathan Matthes (play-by-play) and Casey Whitfield (analyst) on the decision. Live stats of the highway matchup could be adopted by visiting BelmontBruins.com.
 
What’s Bruin

• Belmont (6-0-4, 1-0-1 MVC) is one among simply 14 unbeaten groups within the nation.
• For the primary time in program historical past, the Bruins are unbeaten by way of their first 10 matches of the season.
• Belmont’s program-best 12-match unbeaten streak, which dates again to Oct. 25 of final yr, is the third longest within the nation behind solely Vermont (21) and the University of Portland (20).
• Through their first 10 matches, the Bruins have outscored their opponents 18-6 and haven’t conceded greater than a single purpose in any outing.
• Over the final 4 matches, Belmont has conceded simply six mixed pictures on track.
• Graduate defender Parker Forbes is a December 2024 graduate of Louisville the place he was a three-year letter winner. He totaled 10 factors during the last three seasons for the Cardinals after redshirting as a real freshman in 2021, scoring three objectives and helping on one other 4.
• This previous Friday night time, the Bruins routed Bowling Green 4-1 at E.S. Rose Park within the Music City following a three-match highway stretch. It was essentially the most objectives scored in a match for Belmont since a 4-0 house win over Indiana University Indianapolis on Oct. 5, 2021.
• Friday’s victory was the Bruins’ first MVC win of the season after incomes a 1-1 highway draw at Western Michigan the earlier weekend.
• Freshman midfielder Nzuhri Biggar scored on a rebound within the twelfth minute following a nook kick, incomes his first collegiate purpose. Later within the 61st minute, Biggar assisted on Belmont’s closing purpose of the match with a go-ahead cross to complete with three factors.
• Redshirt senior ahead Jimiyu Mark additionally scored his first purpose donning the Bruins jersey, placing Belmont up 4-1 for good.
• Senior captain midfielder Brad Dildy gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead a bit over 20 minutes in on a wonderful strike from simply contained in the penalty space for his second purpose of the season.
• Freshman ahead Jaxon Stokes registered his fourth purpose of the yr to tie for the staff lead with a 56th-minute strike that gave Belmont a 3-nil benefit.
• Redshirt senior defender Dylan Steely assisted on Biggar’s purpose, incomes his sixth profession help because the Bruins’ present chief.
• Redshirt junior ahead Brock Kiper assisted on Dildy’s purpose, tallying his twenty eighth profession level. He leads Belmont in each profession objectives (12) and factors.
• Redshirt junior midfielder Ethan Schlegel delivered a superb cross to Stokes on the prime of the 18-yard field, securing his first profession help.
• Eleven Bruins have discovered the again this season – Kiper (4), Stokes (4), Dildy (2), sophomore midfielder Emmanuel Aranda (1), Biggar (1), senior defender Riley Clothier (1), Forbes (1), Mark (1), freshman midfielder Paul Claes Nielsen (1), sophomore midfielder Louis Peña (1), and redshirt sophomore ahead Lucas Wolthers (1).
• Graduate goalkeeper Grant Calvert, who owns three clear sheets on the season, ranks within the prime 25 nationally in each objectives in opposition to common (.609) and save share (.824).
• In the most recent NCAA RPI (Rating Percentage Index) rankings, Belmont is simply inside the highest 100 at No. 99, whereas Louisville enters Tuesday ranked within the prime 30 at No. 29. The Bruins have earned two outcomes in opposition to NCAA RPI top-100 groups – No. 70 Harvard (1-0) and No. 93 Bellarmine (1-1).
• Going again to final season, Belmont has claimed a end in 13 of its final 14 matches.

Versus Louisville

• Tuesday would be the ninth all-time assembly between the Bruins and the Cardinals with Louisville successful all eight of the earlier conferences.
• Five of the primary eight matchups between the 2 groups have been held in Louisville.
• In seventh-year head coach David Costa‘s first season in 2019, Belmont was handed a 3-0 loss by the then Twenty fourth-ranked Cardinals in Kentucky.
• Last season, the Bruins traveled to preseason No. 24 Louisville for his or her opening exhibition match.

About the Cardinals

• The Cardinals (5-4-1, 1-4-0) have not received a match since a 1-0 triumph at Ohio State on Sept. 9.
• Louisville is on a two-match skid after 1-0 setbacks at nationally-ranked Duke and versus North Carolina this previous Friday night time in Louisville.
• The Cardinals have been shut out in 4 of their 5 matches in Atlantic Coast Conference play. However, Louisville’s lone ACC win was in opposition to then top-ranked and now third-ranked Stanford (1-0) at house on Sept. 5.
• The Cardinals additionally earned a 2-2 house draw with unbeaten and top-25 ranked Kentucky two weeks in the past.
• Louisville was picked 14th out of 15 groups within the ACC Preseason Coaches Poll after ending final within the convention final fall with a 0-5-3 league mark and a 6-7-4 general file.
• Redshirt junior goalkeeper Alex Svetanoff was named to the ACC Preseason Watch List.
• Two seasons in the past, the Cardinals reached the second spherical of the NCAA Championship. Forbes assisted on Louisville’s game-winning purpose within the first spherical of the 2023 NCAA Championship, a 4-3 thriller over the University of Dayton.

Up Next
Belmont hosts the University of Illinois Chicago Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. All Bruin house matches are free to attend and are broadcast stay on ESPN+.
 
How to Follow
Follow Belmont males’s soccer on social media – @BelmontMSoccer on X, previously Twitter, @belmontmsoccer on Instagram and Belmont University Men’s Soccer on Facebook – for full protection of the Bruins. Stay updated with all of Belmont’s athletic packages through the official app of the Belmont Bruins, out there each within the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
 

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