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Men's Soccer Travels to Gardner-Webb Tuesday, USC Upstate on Saturday This Week
10.28.2024 | Men's Soccer
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - UNC Asheville Men's Soccer travels to Gardner-Webb on Tuesday (Oct. 29) and USC Upstate on Saturday (Nov. 2) to close out the regular season.
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  UNC Asheville at Gardner-Webb
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Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 | Boiling Springs, N.C. | 6 PM
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Saturday, Nov. 1, 2024 | Spartanburg, S.C. | 7:00 p.m.
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  UNC Asheville at Gardner-Webb
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Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 | Boiling Springs, N.C. | 6 PM
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- UNC Asheville enters the week at 6-3-3 overall and 2-2-1 in the Big South after a 4-0 win at Longwood on Saturday (Oct. 26) for the team's sixth shutout of the season, setting a Division I era program record.
- Asheville is tied for fourth in the Big South in goals per game at 1.5, while also ranking second in the league in corner kicks with 79.
- Brendan Herb is tied for seventh in the league in goals with four, while Louis Beckett is tied for fourth in assists with four.
- Charlie Farrar leads the league in goals against average (.757), is fifth in saves (41) and also leads the league in save percentage (.820).
- Gardner-Webb comes into the week at 9-3-2 and 4-0-1 in the Big South Conference after a 4-0 win over USC Upstate on Saturday (Oct. 26).
- Gardner-Webb is third in the league in goals per game at 2.0, while also leading the league in corner kicks with 84.
- Elias Khodri is tied for second in the league in goals with eight, while Lucas Mauro is tied for seventh with four goals.
- Caio Hughes is also tied for fourth in assists with four.
- Alan Horrocks is third in the league in goals against average at 1.26, seventh in saves with 30 and seventh in save percentage at .652.
- This will be the 28th all-time meeting between Asheville and Gardner-Webb, with Gardner-Webb leading the all-time series 14-9-4. The teams played to a 2-2 draw last season in Boiling Springs on Oct. 6, 2023.
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Saturday, Nov. 1, 2024 | Spartanburg, S.C. | 7:00 p.m.
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- USC Upstate comes into the week at 3-13-0 and 2-4-0 in the Big South after a 4-0 loss at Gardner-Webb on Saturday (Oct. 26).
- Upstate ranks seventh in goals per game at 1.18, while also being tied for fifth in corner kicks with 57.
- Dzenan Cerimagic is tied for fifth in the league in goals with five, while Adrian Panaite is tied for seventh with four goals.
- Dario Stadler, Panaite and Liam Duggan are all tied for fourth with four assists apiece.
- Cooper Jennings is eighth in goals against average (3.14), third in saves (65) and eighth in save percentage (.596).
- This will be the 14th all-time meeting between Asheville and USC Upstate, with Upstate leading the all-time series 4-8-1. Asheville won last year's meeting in Asheville 4-2 back on Nov. 1, 2023.
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