ALBANY, N.Y. – The University at Albany men's soccer continues its three-game home stand with its final non-conference game of the regular season, against Colgate, for Senior Night.
 
Game Info
Tuesday, October 18 vs. Colgate (7:00 pm)
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Leading the Pack

• UAlbany is 2-2-2 at home this season; Colgate is 3-0-2 on the road
• Shafique Wilson ranks third in the America East in save percentage and saves per game
• Colgate is the fourth Patriot League opponent on UAlbany's schedule this season
• Two of UAlbany's three wins in the series have come in the last two meetings 

Scouting Colgate
The Raiders, currently third in the Patriot League standings, will be the Great Danes' final regular-season non-conference opponent of 2022.  Colgate is 6-3-4 overall this season, with a 2-1-3 mark against Patriot League opponents.  The Raiders' offense is led by Aidan Davock, who has scored five goals this season with one assist.  In goal, Andrew Cooke has recorded three shutouts, while allowing 1.14 goals per appearance and recording a .714 save percentage.  UAlbany is 3-8-2 lifetime against Colgate, having won each of the last two meetings in the series.
 
Last Time vs. Colgate
October 19, 2021 | UAlbany visited winless Colgate for its final non-conference game of the 2021 regular season.  The Raiders, who held a 7-1-2 series lead over the Great Danes since 2004, scored the first goal of the game on their only shot of the game to take a lead in the first half.  UAlbany rallied to score twice in the second half, and ultimately outshot Colgate 14-1 to claim a lead heading into Saturday's showdown with Vermont.
 
Last Time Out
UAlbany hosted its first of two marquee America East matchups on the season, welcoming defending regular-season champion New Hampshire to Casey Stadium.  The Wildcats, coming off their best season in program history, had started 2022 slowly but had rebounded to win each of their last six before the game against the Great Danes, and sat just outside the top-25 in the United Soccer Coaches national poll.  The Wildcats defeated UAlbany 4-0, scoring twice in each half, giving the Great Danes their first conference defeat of the season.
 
Around the America East
Vermont and New Hampshire continue their long winning streaks, with the Catamounts' reaching 10 games and the Wildcats' reaching seven.  The two teams have created a small separation at the top of the conference standings with 12 points each.  UAlbany remains in third with seven points, just ahead of UMBC's six points.  The Great Danes hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Retrievers.  In fourth is Binghamton with five points, followed by NJIT with two points, UMass Lowell with one point, and Bryant with zero points.
 
Tuesday's America East Games

• Dartmouth at #12 Vermont, 7:00 pm
• Colgate at UAlbany, 7:00 pm
• RV New Hampshire at Yale, 7:00 pm
• Binghamton at #16 Cornell, 7:00 pm
• Hartford at NJIT, 7:00 pm

Common Opponents

• Boston University
  • UAlbany: 8/25 vs. Boston University, T, 1-1
  • Colgate: 9/16 vs. Boston University, W, 3-0
• Lafayette
  • UAlbany: 8/25 at Lafayette, L, 0-2
  • Colgate: 10/15 vs. Lafayette,
• Fairfield
  • UAlbany: 9/2 at Fairfield, L, 0-1
  • Colgate: 9/7 at Fairfield, W, 2-0
• Marist
  • UAlbany: 9/5 at Marist, L, 1-2
  • Colgate: 8/29 vs. Marist, T, 1-1
• Binghamton
  • UAlbany: 10/8 at Binghamton, T, 0-0
  • Colgate: 9/2 at Binghamton, W, 1-0

Seniors
UAlbany will honor the seven members of its 2022 senior class, Domenic Baumann, Vinicius Giannaccini, Giuliano Lucca, Pantelis Panteli, Sam Philip, Neophytos Scottis, and Julian Terris, ahead of the team's final non-conference game of the regular season, Colgate.  Since Philip, the class' longest-tenured player, arrived on campus in 2018, the class has gone 33-36-6 overall with a 15-15-2 against America East opponents.
 
Shutout
For three-straight games, and seven total halves, the men's soccer team did not concede a goal.  The Great Danes went 2-0-1 against UMBC, Bryant, and Binghamton, outscoring the three opponents 4-0.  In total, dating to the team's last goal conceded in the 86th minute at Rhode Island on September 20, until their next goal conceded, a penalty kick in the 66th minute against Army West Point on October 11, the Great Danes' shutout streak lasted 340 game minutes.
 
Rookie of the Week
Jackson Finn scored the game-winner against the America East's top-scoring team, UMBC, on the road in the team's conference opener, and earned his first career weekly award.  The Retrievers had scored eight more goals than any other America East squad, but the Great Danes held UMBC scoreless over their 90-minute match.  Finn broke the scoreless tie late in the game, collecting a rebound against an open net after teammates Saad Faiz and Domenic Baumann took back-to-back shots to draw UMBC goalkeeper Quantrell Jones out of position.
 
Hall of Fame Semifinalist
The most prolific scorer in UAlbany men's soccer history, Lee Tschantret, was named a semifinalist to the National Soccer Hall of Fame's 2023 Veteran Ballot.  Tschantret played at UAlbany from 1987-90, scoring a program-record that still stands today 51 goals.  He earned All-America honors in 1988 and 1989, and after his collegiate season enjoyed a 20-year professional career.
 
Associate
Rich Nassif was promoted to Associate Head Coach in 2022, his fifth season on the sidelines at UAlbany.  Nassif joined UAlbany in 2018 following his second stint on the coaching staff at his alma mater, Northwestern University.  Since joining the Great Danes' sidelines, the team has averaged nine wins per full season and qualified for two America East tournaments.  Some of the Great Danes biggest wins with Nassif are Vermont in 2018 and 2019, #14 New Hampshire in 2019, Villanova in 2021, and Penn this season.
 
U.S. Open Cup
Former UAlbany goalkeeper Danny Vitiello and his Sacramento Republic FC team advanced to the championship game of the U.S. Open Cup against Orlando City SC of the MLS.  Sacramento was the first team from outside the MLS to reach the title game since Charleston Battery played against D.C. United in 2008.  Vitiello and Sacramento defeated three MLS teams en route to the final, the San Jose Earthquakes, the L.A. Galaxy, and Sporting Kansas City.  In the latter game, the semifinal, Vitiello recorded the decisive save in the penalty kick shootout to advance Sacramento to the final.  Sacramento's magic run ended against Orlando City, falling 3-0.
 
From the Field
When Saad Faiz scored his first goal of the season, in the 24th minute of the Great Danes' sixth game of the year, at Rutgers, it was the team's first goal scored from the field of the 2022 season.  All three of the Great Danes' previous goals were scored on penalty kicks.  Faiz's goal ended a drought of just over 520 minutes of game time since their previous goal from the field, in the 44th minute of the 2021 America East quarterfinal against NJIT.
 
Defensive Player of the Week
Daniel Shannon recorded his first career shutout and victory as UAlbany's goalkeeper in the Great Danes' fifth game of the year when they hosted the Penn Quakers.  Shannon faced a total of 21 shots and made four saves to keep the Quakers off the board and hold the 1-0 lead to victory.  Shannon is UAlbany's first defensive player of the week since former teammate Carlos Tofern was named on September 7, 2021.
 
Three-for-Three
Through five games, UAlbany scored three goals on the 2022 season.  Each goal came via penalty kick, first in the season opener against Boston University and second at Marist at the end of a three-game road swing.  Pantelis Panteli took each penalty kick for the Great Danes, making Panteli accountable for all UAlbany scoring through the early part of the season.  In the fifth game of the season, Domenic Baumann stepped in for Panteli on the Great Danes' PK against Penn and successfully converted the attempt, making UAlbany 3-3 on PKs on the season season.  Since then, the team added another PK, and are a perfect 4-4.
 
International Flavor
Continuing a tradition within the UAlbany men's soccer program under head coach Trevor Gorman, the 2022 Great Danes feature a sizeable international roster.  Thirteen countries are represented among UAlbany's ranks this season: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.
 
New Faces
UAlbany welcomes 16 new players to the roster for the 2022 season, replacing 15 departures and bringing the team roster to a total of 30.  Though the Great Danes return second-leading scorer Andrew Weiner from last year, the members of the new class will fill in for the production left behind by the departures of the first, third, and fourth-leading scorers, a total of six goals and 11 assists.
 
Picked Fourth
After finishing the 2021 regular season third in the America East standings, the Great Danes were picked to finish fourth in the league's 2022 preseason coaches' poll.  Behind unanimous favorite New Hampshire, picked to win the league for the fourth-straight season, the distribution tightened up.  Defending tournament champion Vermont was picked second just two points ahead of third-pick UMBC, and five points ahead of UAlbany.  NJIT was picked fifth, ahead of Binghamton and UMass Lowell in a tie for sixth, with conference newcomer Bryant picked eighth.
 
Game Over
Adopted starting this season, regular-season matches will no longer go into extra time when tied at the conclusion of regulation.  The regular-seasons games will conclude after 90 minutes of play.  Overtime and shootouts will return starting in the postseason.
 
Next: UAlbany plays its final two regular season games on the road starting October 22 at NJIT before its finale at home against #12 Vermont on November 1.