Saturday, October 26, 2019 * Senior Day
Rider Broncs (6-5-2, 3-2-2 MAAC) vs. Marist Red Foxes (6-7-0, 3-3-0 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ - Ben Cohen Field
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
Live Video: ESPN+
Live Stats: www.GoBroncs.com
What You Need To Know
- Prior to Saturday's game, the Broncs will honor their 11-member senior class as part of Senior Day ceremonies.
Sam Carter,
Juan Carlos Garcia Gomez,
Zach Peterson,
Jason Marczak,
Dalton Wu,
Sylvain Coco,
Clement Bourret,
Arthur Herpreck,
Emmanuel Kouma,
Aaron Robinson and
Andrew Crawford will be honored for helping Rider to 55 wins and three MAAC Championships over the last five seasons.
- The Broncs lead the all-time series with Marist, 16-10-2. Rider is 5-1-1 against the Red Foxes, dating back to 2012.
- Rider has yet to have consecutive wins, losses or ties through 13 games this season.
- The Broncs took a 1-0 road win at Siena on Oct. 23, with
Pablo DeCastro scoring in his fourth-straight game off assists from
Sam Carter and
Clement Bourret. Â Â
- DeCastro leads the Broncs with seven goals and 16 points so far this year. Bourret has also added four goals and three assists. Bourret and DeCastro each have two game-winning goals. DeCastro now has 24 goals in his three years at Rider, while Bourret has scored 15 career goals. Â Â
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Pablo Gatinois made one save to compile his 11th shutout with the Broncs and the 12th of his collegiate career. The 11 shutouts tie him with Ryan Baird (11) for fourth all-time at Rider, while David Pastuna (12), Keith Richardson (14) and Chip Maruca (15) follow.
- Marist dropped a 3-2 overtime decision at home to league-leading Saint Peter's on Wednesday. The Red Foxes had won three-straight against Siena, Fairfield and Manhattan prior to the setback, while falling to Niagara and Quinnipiac to open league play.
- Huib Achterkamp leads Marist with five goals on the year, while 2017 MAAC Offensive Player and Rookie of the Year Allen Gavilanes has added two goals and a team-best five assists. Stefan Copetti and Samad Bounthong have each scored three goals, while Justin Jaime and Christian Curti have two goals each. Â Â Â
- Samuel Ilin has played every minute in goal for Marist this year, posting a 1.63 goals-against average and a .686 saves percentage.
- Rider earned a 3-2 overtime victory over Manhattan in heavy rain and windy conditions on Oct. 16. Coco, DeCastro and
Sergio Aguinaga each scored for the Broncs.
- On Oct. 12, the Broncs played hOURglass rival Monmouth to a 2-2 tie.
Pablo DeCastro and
Francisco Gomez Olano each scored goals for Rider. Â
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Sylvain Coco was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 7 after leading the Broncs to a scoreless tie at Fairfield and scoring twice in Rider's 3-1 win over Canisius.
- Rider dropped a heartbreaker at Saint Peter's, conceding the equalizer in the 81
st minute before a game-winning penalty kick was awarded to the Peacocks with six seconds remaining in the second overtime.Â
- The Broncs opened MAAC play with a scoreless tie at Fairfield on Oct. 2 in a match-up of 2018 MAAC Tournament Champion vs. 2018 Regular Season Champion and 2019 Preseason Favorite. It was just the fourth scoreless tie in
Charlie Inverso's nine years at Rider and the first since 2017.
- After distributing three assists to begin the year
Mathis Catanzaro, added his first goal of the year, the game-winner in the 106
th minute at Stony Brook. DeCastro also added the equalizer on a penalty kick in the 45
th minute.
- Bourret was named MAAC Offensive Player of the Week after scoring twice in the Broncs' 2-0 win over La Salle.Â
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Pablo Gatinois was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 9, after making seven saves in a shutout victory at Fordham.Â
- Rider was picked third in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll.
- Rider advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years a season ago, pushing eventual national runner-up Akron in a tie game through 83 minutes, before falling, 3-1, in the First Round.
- The Broncs were 5-9-1 (4-4-0 MAAC) through 15 games last season before winning their final two games in the regular season and three MAAC Championship games – all five by shutout – to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
- The Broncs have reached the MAAC Championship Game in each of the last four years, becoming just the third program in MAAC history to make four-straight MAAC Championship Game appearances. Rider joined Loyola (1989-97, no longer in MAAC) and Fairfield (1998-2002).
- Rider's seven shutouts last season tied the program single-season record, both as a team and individually for then-sophomore goalkeeper
Pablo Gatinois. The 1997 and 2015 teams also had seven shutouts each. Gatinois tied Keith Richardson's individual record set in 1997 with seven clean sheets.
- Rider became the first team in MAAC Championship history to win three true road games in the tournament en route to the title last season. The tournament moved first from a four-team field held at one site to six teams in 2014 with the quarterfinals at the higher seed and the semifinals and finals at the top seed. Beginning in 2017, all games were hosted by the higher seed.    Â
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