Males’s Soccer Travels to Wright State for Sunday Night Match

Belmont (0-1-0) at Wright State (0-1-0)

Sunday, Aug. 23 | 5:00 p.m. CT/6:00 p.m. ET

Alumni Field at Rinzler Student Sports Complex | Dayton, Ohio

 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Following its common season opener at E.S. Rose Park Thursday evening, the Belmont University males’s soccer staff makes its first street journey of the season this weekend. The Bruins (0-1-0) journey to Wright State for a Sunday night affair. Kickoff from Alumni Field at Rinzler Student Sports Complex in Dayton, Ohio, is about for five p.m. CT/6 p.m. ET.
 
The street match is not going to be broadcast; nevertheless, reside stats of the competition may be adopted by visiting BelmontBruins.com.
 
What’s Bruin

• Belmont was defeated 2-0 by in-state foe Memphis in Thursday’s opener, conceding two second-half objectives. The Bruins had been outshot 14-4 and had been unable to put a shot on course.
• Freshman goalkeeper Brody Sucher collected 4 saves versus the Tigers in his debut Thursday.
• Belmont welcomed 10 newcomers this 12 months, together with eight over the summer season and two in January – senior ahead Nathan Ferguson and freshman defender Judah McCloud.
• The Bruins’ 2026 class is comprised of six freshmen and 4 transfers.
• Belmont returns 16 from 2025, together with 12 letter winners.
• Only 4 returning Bruins began matches final season – sophomore midfielders Paul Claes Nielsen (16) and Nzuhri Biggar (10), graduate midfielder Ethan Schlegel (9) and senior ahead Lucas Wolthers (6).
• After ending only one level shy of claiming its first Missouri Valley Conference common season title final 12 months, Belmont was picked fifth within the league’s preseason ballot as voted by the Valley’s head coaches.
• The Bruins went 3-2-2 in MVC play in 2025 and completed 8-3-6 total.
• Finishing fourth within the remaining convention standings final fall, Belmont hosted an MVC Championship match for the primary time in program historical past. The fourth-seeded Bruins welcomed fifth-seeded University of Illinois Chicago to Rose Park for the opening spherical of the postseason event.
• Belmont has reached eight victories in three of the final 5 seasons.
• The Bruins went undefeated via their first 11 matches final season (6-0-5) for the primary time in class historical past.
• Belmont put collectively a program-record 13-match unbeaten streak from Oct. 29, 2024, via Oct. 7, 2025.
• Once once more, the Bruins had among the best defenses within the nation in 2025. Conceding simply 13 objectives the whole season, the fifth fewest within the nation, Belmont posted the 18th-best objectives in opposition to common (0.765) nationally. Allowing a number of objectives solely twice through the 12 months, the Bruins recorded six street shutouts.
• Claes Nielsen, an MVC All-Freshman Team choice final fall, was named to the Preseason All-MVC Team. The Copenhagen, Denmark, native began all however one match his freshman season and led Belmont in assists (5).

Versus Wright State

• Sunday can be solely the seventh all-time assembly between the Bruins and the Raiders with Wright State holding a 4-1-1 lead within the collection.
• It marks the second consecutive season the 2 groups have met. Belmont defeated the Raiders 2-1 in final 12 months’s common season opener within the Music City. All three objectives had been scored within the second half, together with a penalty kick recreation winner within the eightieth minute by midfielder Louis Peña.
• The Bruins confronted Wright State for four-straight seasons when Belmont was a member of the Horizon League (2014-17).
• The Bruins are 0-2-1 of their three earlier journeys to the Raiders’ dwelling turf and have but to attain at Wright State. Belmont earned a scoreless draw in opposition to the Raiders following double time beyond regulation to start the month of October in 2016.

About the Raiders

• Wright State (0-1-0) fell 5-2 to fellow MVC member Bowling Green State University in its season opener Thursday evening. The Raiders acquired second-half objectives from ahead Alessandro Duran and midfielder Tedrick Neptune.
• Wright State was picked final within the Horizon League Preseason Poll after going 2-7 within the league final season and ending tenth out of 10 groups.
• The Raiders went 2-13-1 total final 12 months.
• In 2019, Wright State reached the second spherical of the NCAA Championship after profitable the Horizon League Championship on PKs and defeating Notre Dame within the first spherical.

Up Next
The Bruins stay on the street and head to Central Arkansas subsequent weekend, taking up the Bears Friday evening. Kickoff from the Bill Stephens Soccer Complex in Conway, Arkansas, is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the match can be broadcast 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 applications through the official app of the Belmont Bruins, accessible each within the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
 

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