Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Rider Broncs (2-6-2, 1-1-1 MAAC) vs. Quinnipiac Bobcats (7-3-1, 2-1-0 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Ben Cohen Field
Kickoff: 4 p.m.
Live Video: ESPN+
Live Stats: GoBroncs.com

What You Need To Know
- The Rider University men's soccer team returns to MAAC play at home against Quinnipiac Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. on ESPN+.
- The first 100 students in attendance will receive Rider branded soccer scarves.
- After falling to Manhattan in their MAAC opener at home on Sept. 28, the Broncs have pieced together four points in their last two games with a scoreless tie at Iona (Oct. 5) and a 3-2 win at Fairfield (Oct. 8).
- The shutout at Iona was Guillaume Veinante's second shutout of the year. He made five saves.
- Adel Al Masude assisted on all three goals against Fairfield, setting up Guillaume Sarrabayrouse on a cross in the run of play, Lenny Cidolit off a free kick and Regis Dulck off a corner kick.
- Al Masude leads the Broncs with two goals and three assists so far this season, including tallies in consecutive games at Rutgers and Central Connecticut. The goal against the Blue Devils was the game winner. All three of his assists came Oct. 8 at Fairfield.
- Lenny Cidolit has a goal and is tied for the team lead with Al Masude with three assists.   
- Cidolit, Dulck, Sarrabayrouse, Dylan Kotch, Tom Skrocki and Mo Bocher have each contributed one goal apiece.
- Kotch's goal was the first of his Rider career at Central Connecticut, while Bocher also netted his first-collegiate goal against NJIT.  
- Veinante has played the majority of time in net so far this season for the Broncs, posting a 2.18 goals-against average and a .667 saves percentage. His shutouts at Central Connecticut and Iona were the first of his Rider career.
- Cidolit and Veinante had played every minute of the season prior to subbing out during the Princeton game.  
- Rider leads the all-time series with Quinnipiac, 7-4. All 11 games have taken place since the Bobcats joined the MAAC for the 2013 season. Rider has won seven of the last nine meetings. However, the Bobcats took a 3-1 win in their last visit to Ben Cohen Field in 2019.
- Quinnipiac's David Bercedo leads the MAAC with nine goals and 21 points, a margin of three goals and seven points ahead of the next-closest competitor. That next closest competitor in points is actually a teammate in Alexander Stjernegaard, who's scored three goals and dished out a MAAC-leading eight assists. Together with Tomas Svecula (4 goals, 3 assists), Jason Budhai (3 goals, 3 assists) and Sam McCann (4 goals), the Bobcats' 31 goals are 12 more than the next-closest teams.   
- Karl Netzell has played the majority of minutes in net for the Bobcats, including all three starts vs. MAAC opposition. He's posted a 4-2-1 record with one shutout, a 1.73 goals-against average and a .594 saves percentage.   
- Quinnipiac was picked fourth in the MAAC Preseason Poll.
- After playing NJIT to a 2-2 tie in the Broncs' home opener on Sept. 18, the Broncs fell at Princeton, 3-0, on Sept. 23.
- The Broncs opened the season with five-straight road contests. The last time Rider played as many as five-straight games away from home to start the season and had its home opener so late on the calendar was 2008, when the Broncs played their first six games at road or neutral fields, before playing in Lawrenceville for the first time on Sept. 21.
- After dropping four-straight games to open the season at Seton Hall, Virginia, Penn and Rutgers, the Broncs responded with a 2-0 clean sheet at Central Connecticut on Sept. 14.
- The Broncs were picked second in the MAAC by the league's coaches, a year after reaching the MAAC Championship Game for the fifth time in the last seven seasons last year. The Broncs erased a two-goal deficit in the title game at top-seeded Marist and played the Red Foxes to a tie before Marist advanced on PK's.
- Graduate forward Zaki Alibou, the 2021 MAAC Offensive Player of the Year, has been tabbed MAAC Preseason Player of the Year. Alibou led the Broncs with 10 goals and five assists a year ago and is listed on SoccerWire.com's Forwards to Watch for this season.
- Also back for the Broncs from the All-MAAC Teams last season are All-Rookie Team selections Adel Al Masude and Guillaume Veinante. Al Masude contributed four goals and four assists in his first season with the Broncs, while Veinante started nine of his 10 games played a year ago.
- The Broncs return 61 percent of their scoring and seven of 11 starters from a year ago. In addition to Alibou (10 goals) and Al Masude (4), Lenny Cidolit (3) and Regis Dulck (2) also scored multiple goals last season.
- The Broncs have qualified for the MAAC Championships in nine-straight seasons. Rider won MAAC Championships in 1997, 1998, 2015, 2016 and 2018, while finishing as runner up in 2004, 2017 and 2021.