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MILWAUKEE, Wisc. - The IUPUI men's soccer team will face a tall task on Saturday night (Oct. 28) when the Jaguars face Milwaukee (8-5-3, 4-3 Horizon) in an 8:00 p.m. Eastern kickoff inside Engelmann Stadium. The host Panthers are amidst a four-game unbeaten streak, which includes a scoreless draw with Wisconsin earlier this week.
IUPUI (0-12-2, 0-7 Horizon) has earned results in two of the Jaguars' past three matches and played three of its past five foes to overtime. IUPUI earned a 1-1 draw with Eastern Illinois earlier this week, getting a second half goal from senior
Uriel Macias for the equalizer. Macias leads the IUPUI offense with three scores while
Sam Gavin and
Alan Aguilar have two assists each. In goal, redshirt freshman
Michael Buck has continued to perform better over the second half of the season, lowering his goals against average to 1.47 and upping his save percentage to .667. Buck has started nine of the Jaguars' 14 matches on the year.
Offensively, the Jaguars' attack has been more lively of late, combining on 30 shot attempts in the past two matches. The Jags rifled off a season-high 20 attempts against EIU on Wednesday, paced by six from
Pedro Valladao and five from Macias. IUPUI has outshot its opponent in each of the past two matches.
QUOTABLE: "Give credit to the Eastern Illinois student-athletes. When you're playing at 2:00 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon on the road, you have to create your own momentum and they absolutely did that. To that end, you have to give credit to our guys too as we were able to get equal and continued to create opportunities to find the game-winner," said head coach Brian Barnett after the Jaguars played EIU to a 1-1 draw.
CLOSE, BUT...: Six of IUPUI's 12 losses have come by a single goal, including three Horizon League defeats.
SENIOR SNAPSHOT: Senior
Harold Agyeman-Prempeh and Macias were honored prior to Sunday's match with Green Bay as part of Senior Day festivities. Agyeman-Prempeh made his 37th career appearance and 36th career start in that contest. The native of England was voted Academic All-Summit League in 2015 before missing all of last season due to injury. Macias made his 49th career appearance and 41st career start on Sunday. The Indiana-native has 13 career goals and four assists in his four seasons. He was the 2014 Summit League Newcomer of the Year and First Team All-Summit after finishing that season with seven goals and three game-winners.
JAGS IN THE COMMUNITY: Barnett and the Jaguars began a season-long partnership with Indianapolis Public Schools on Friday (Oct. 20), visiting a local school as part of the
'Real Men Read' mentoring program. In addition, IUPUI team members took part in the annual IUPUI Day of Caring on Saturday (Oct. 21), working primarily with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, planting trees throughout the day.
FORMER JAG EARNS MLS SPOT: After a long uphill climb, former IUPUI goalkeeper Eduardo Cortes recently inked a deal with the MLS FC Dallas as the team's third goalkeeper. He has yet to make his MLS debut, training as the team's third in line.
SCOUTING MILWAUKEE: Milwaukee has been hot of late, having not tasted defeat since Oct. 3 at SIUE. Since then, Milwaukee is 3-0-1 with wins over Cleveland State (2-0), Wright State (3-2) and Detroit Mercy (3-1) before playing Wisconsin to a scoreless draw. Evan Conway leads the Milwaukee attack with six goals and three assists while Nick Moon has four goals and five assists. Milwaukee has outscored opponents 24-17 on the year and outshot opponents by nearly seven shots per game. Defensively, Freddy Lorenzen has played nearly every minute in goal, registering a 1.04 goals against average and 41 saves in his 16 appearances.
INSIDE THE SERIES: IUPUI is 0-2 all-time against Milwaukee having lost matches in 2012 and 2013. The loss in 2012 was a 3-2 road loss before the Jags dropped a 3-0 home decision to the Panthers the following season.
UP NEXT: IUPUI will return home to host Fort Wayne on Tuesday night (Oct. 31) at the on-campus Michael A. Carroll Stadium at 7:00 p.m..
