UMAC Game of the Week: Minnesota Morris at UW-Superior
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The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Game of the Week is a feature that takes place each week throughout the conference portion of the season with one contest being selected and highlighted as the UMAC Game of the Week.
This week's UMAC Game of the Week will take place on Saturday, October 10 at 3:15 p.m. as the University of Minnesota Morris and the University of Wisconsin-Superior will meet in UMAC men’s soccer action in Superior, Wis. In a key UMAC contest.
About the Cougars
Minnesota Morris will play Wisconsin-Superior for the sixth time in program history but the first time with the YellowJackets as members of the UMAC. Morris leads the series 3-2 and is 1-0 all-time in Superior. The last meeting came in 2012 with the Cougars emerging victoriously 1-0 in a match played in Duluth.
Morris trails Wisconsin-Superior by two games in the loss column. Currently the Cougars in fifth place in the UMAC, tied with Northwestern, but the Eagles beat UMM earlier this season.
The Cougars have four UMAC matches remaining and all of them could have serious implications on the UMAC Tournament matchups.
About the Yellow jackets
The Yellowjackets had their four game winning streak snapped Sunday in a 2-1 loss to Saint John’s University. This was the second time the Yellowjackets have had a long winning streak snapped, as they had a five game streak going earlier in the season before losing to St. Scholastica.
This will be the first time the Yellowjackets and the Cougars have played each other since 2012 but the first time the two teams are meeting up as UMAC foes.
Junior Goalkeeper Ben Wilhelm is in his first season as the Yellowjacket starter and has had a successful season thus far, being named the UMAC Defensive Player of the Week once and accumulating a 1.43 goals against average and .714 save percentage.
Game Notes
- Former Cougar Trent Holmes will take on his former teammates for the first time since transferring to Wisconsin-Superior.
- Yellowjacket senior defenseman Joey Gustafson has been awarded the UMAC Defensive Player of the Week honors twice, including this past week.
- Austin Keller has a goal in three of the last six matches for the Cougars; two of them are match winners.
- Reyman Solis leads the Yellowjackets in assists with nine, a total that also ranks him ninth in NCAA Division III.
- Cody Christ is averaging just over six saves per start this season for the Cougars.
- Sophomore Forward Jon Bucklew and Junior Forward Ryan Wisdom lead the Yellowjackets offensively with 13 points in 13 games. This is after Bucklew scored just seven points in 19 games last season and Wisdom scored one point in 20 games.
- Last year’s leading scorer for the Cougars, Shingo Yamane has been held to just two points this year. Last season he finished with 23 points.
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