Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Rider Broncs (1-3-1) vs. Stony Brook Seawolves (4-1-0)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Ben Cohen Field
Kickoff: 7 p.m.
Live Video: BroncVision
Live Stats: GoBroncs.com

What You Need To Know
- The Rider University men's soccer team plays host to Stony Brook Tuesday evening. The game will be broadcast live on BroncVision.
- The Broncs are 1-3-1 so far this season, with a win over Central Connecticut, a tie at NJIT and losses to Villanova, Saint Francis (Pa.) and La Salle.
- Zaki Alibou has scored a team-high three goals this season. While the Broncs have been shut out twice in five games, he's scored a single goal in each of the other three games.
- Five other Broncs – Sergio Aguinaga, Adel Al-Masude, Regis Dulck, Francisco Gomez Olano and Guillermo Pavia Vidal – have scored one goal each. Aguinaga has also added an assist.
- Guillaume Sarrabayrouse also has one assist for the Broncs.
- Pablo Gatinois has started four of five in net this season, posting a 2.20 goals-against average and a .400 saves percentage. Guillaume Veinante has also played in two games, including a start against Saint Francis (Pa.), posting a 0.89 GAA and .750 saves percentage.
- The Broncs were picked fourth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches Poll. Rider has qualified for the MAAC Championships in each of the last eight seasons, including four MAAC title game appearances and three MAAC Championships in that span.
- Gomez Olano was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Team. He followed up a two-goal, three-assist performance in 17 games in his first season at Rider in 2019 with a three-assist effort in just five games last Spring.
- The Broncs also return graduate student forward Pablo DeCastro, who's scored 27 goals and registered 61 points over the last four seasons. A two-time All-MAAC Second Team selection, DeCastro scored the game-winning goal in the 2018 MAAC Championship  Game at Quinnipiac.
- Gatinois has won 20 games in his three seasons at Rider, compiling 14 clean sheets. His next shutout would tie him for the most in program history with Chip Maruca.
- Rider returned nearly all of its scoring from a year ago, with only Guillaume Vacter's one goal not returning. Vacter transferred to the University of Connecticut.
- Rider and Stony Brook have met five times, with the two teams splitting the all-time series, 2-2-1. The last meeting was a Rider win on Sept. 24, 2019, when Mathis Catanzaro scored the golden goal in the 106^th minute on Long Island.
- Stony Brook has won its last three games over Drexel, Columbia and Fairfield, while also defeating LIU in its season opener. The Seawolves' lone setback of the season came on Aug. 30 against Hofstra.
- Jonas Bickus leads Stony Brook with two goals and four points. Six other Seawolves have two points each, with five of them coming on one goal. Trausti Birgisson is the sixth and has a pair of assists.
- Edmond Kaiser has played every minute in net this season for Stony Brook, posting a 0.75 goals-against average and a .778 saves percentage.