Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Rider Broncs (2-7-3, 1-2-2 MAAC) vs. Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers (6-6-1, 2-3-1 MAAC)
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 returns to MAAC play at home against Mount St. Mary's Wednesday night at 7 p.m. on BroncVision.
- The Broncs bounced back from a tough 3-0 loss to Quinnipiac on Oct. 12 with a hard-fought point at Niagara on Oct. 15. Rider twice went down a goal before equalizing each time on goals from Babacar Diene and Matt Araujo, respectively, to become just the second team this season to take a point from the Purple Eagles.
- After falling to Manhattan in their MAAC opener at home on Sept. 28, the Broncs pieced together four points in their next 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 to go along with 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 the team lead with four assists.
- Jack McGeechan has also added three assists for Rider.    
- Diene, Araujo, 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 2.26 goals-against average and a .644 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.  
- Mount St. Mary's leads the all-time series with Rider, 6-4. The last time Rider played Mount St. Mary's was the third game in 12^th-year Rider Head Coach Charlie Inverso's first season leading the Broncs in 2011. Again conference foes after joining the MAAC for the 2022-23 academic year, Rider's last win over Mount St. Mary's came when the two schools were Northeast Conference foes in 1996. Mount St. Mary's has won the last three non-conference pairings in 2003, 2010 and 2011.  
- Jesus Salazar leads The Mount with seven assists and 13 points, while Ruben Kiers is the Mountaineers' leading scorer at four goals to go along with three assists. Ethan Glaser, Ondrej Soukup and Marcus Lewis have added two goals apiece, while Kofi Amoah and Bobby Marsteller also add scoring punch with a goal and two assists each.    
- Ethan Russell has played every minute in net this season for Mount St. Mary's, posting a 2.00 goals-against average and a .723 saves percentage.    
- Mount St. Mary's was picked last in the MAAC Preseason Poll, but currently sits 7^th of 11 teams, a spot and two points above the Broncs in the standings, while having played one additional league game.
- 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.