Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Rider Broncs (1-4-1) vs. Princeton Tigers (2-3-0)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Ben Cohen Field
Kickoff: 7 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN+
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider faces Route 206 neighbor Princeton. The Tigers lead the all-time series, 14-3-3. Rider's last win over Princeton came in 2002.
- The Broncs are looking to avoid a three-game losing skid for the first time since 2014.
- Rider fell to Temple, 1-0, in overtime on Sept. 11 and took a 3-0 loss at LIU Brooklyn on Sept. 15.
- The Broncs took a 1-0 win on Sept. 8 at La Salle on Pablo DeCastro's (Madrid, Spain/Universidad Francisco de Vitoria) goal off an assist from Elliott Otmani (La Ciotat, France/Bonaparte).
- The assist gives Otmani 60 points for his Rider career.
- Sophomore goalkeeper Pablo Gatinois (Madrid, Spain/Lycee Francais de Madrid [Oregon State]) earned his first start, win and shutout in the 1-0 clean sheet at La Salle. Gatinois made one save. Gatinois also started the Temple game, corralling two saves.
- Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Garret Potter started his first three games this season following the graduation of former keeper David Pastuna. Potter made five saves in the three games. He got another start at LIU Brooklyn and made six saves.
- After opening the season with a 1-1 tie against Fairleigh Dickinson on Aug. 24, the Broncs fell to NJIT, 1-0, on a goal in the 88^th minute. Elliott Otmani scored on a PK in the 11^th minute against NJIT. The goal was the 24^th in Otmani's career.
- Potter, Guillermo Pavia Vidal (Madrid, Spain/La Salle Sagrado Corazon) and Borja Ares Ortiz (Entrambasaguas, Cantabria, Spain/Universidad Europea del Atlantico) each made their Rider debuts against FDU.  
- Princeton (3-3-0) has won its last two games, both one-goal decisions over Temple (2-1) and Boston University (1-0), both at home.
- Sean McSherry leads the Tigers with two goals, two assists and six points so far this season. Jeremy Colvin has matched McSherry's goal total with two. Danny Hampton and Gaby Paniagua have each scored once, while Benjamin Issroff and Bobby Hickson have each tallied an assist.
- Jacob Schachner has played every minute in net for the Tigers, posting a 0.82 goals-against average and a .722 saves percentage.  
- The Broncs return nine starters from a team that advanced to the MAAC Championship Game for the third-straight season in 2017.
- Included in the returning cast are a pair of players who accounted for 17 of the Broncs 30 goals a year ago in Elliott Otmani (9 goals, 2 assists) and Pablo DeCastro (8 goals, 3 assists).
- Otmani was named to the prestigious MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, representative of collegiate soccer's top individual honor.
- In addition to Otmani, an Academic All-America First Team honoree, backs Arthur Herpreck and Emmanuel Kouma return after joining Otmani on the All-Region Team.
- Six of Rider's league-high seven All-MAAC selections from a year ago return, including First-Team honorees Otmani, Kouma and Sylvain Coco, Second-Teamers DeCastro and Arthur Herpreck and All-Rookie Team selection Mathis Catanzaro.
- The Broncs' two losses to the starting line-up will not be easy to replace – Second-Team All-American and program assists record-holder Jose Aguinaga, who was drafted 85^th overall by the New York Red Bulls, and goalkeeper David Pastuna, a five-year member of the Broncs who finished his career with 30 wins and 12 shutouts, good for second and third in program history, respectively.   
- Otmani, Coco and Kouma were selected to the Preseason All-MAAC Team.
- The Rider defense limited the opposition to a 0.99 goals-against average in 2017, while the offense produced 1.49 goals per game.
- Rider has won four MAAC Championships in its 21 years in the league, including back-to-back titles in its first two years in the league (1997-98) and 2015-16.