Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Rider Broncs (0-1-1) vs. Temple Owls (1-2-0)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Ben Cohen Field
Kickoff: 7 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN+
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
 
What You Need To Know
- Wednesday night's game will be Rider's first-ever self-produced ESPN broadcast. Under the direction of Assistant Athletic Director for Digital and New Media Chris Foster, the broadcasts will be heavily student run, including pregame, halftime, and postgame content production as well as feature pieces, commercials, highlight packages, and interviews.
- 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.
- Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Garret Potter has started his first two games this season following the graduation of former keeper David Pastuna. Potter has made four saves.
- 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.  
- Temple (1-2-0) is playing its fourth-straight game away from home Wednesday after playing its first three games at UMBC (1-0 loss), at Virginia Commonwealth (1-0 loss) and at Old Dominion (1-0 win).
- Zach Brown has the Owls' lone goal of the year, with Andres Barrera and Pierre Cayet assisting.
- After Simon Lefebvre started the first two games in net for Temple, Michael Samnik made four saves in shutting out Old Dominion.  
- 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.