Thursday, October 18
Jacksonville, Fla.
7:00 p.m.
University of North Florida
vs
Mercer
Men’s Soccer Meets Mercer in Midweek Match
10/17/2012 11:50:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Live Stats | ASun.TV
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The University of North Florida men's soccer team returns home for an Atlantic Sun Conference match against Mercer on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Hodges Stadium.
Live stats will be available for the event, as well as streaming video via ASun.TV.
North Florida enters the match with a 3-10-0 overall record, including an 0-4-0 mark in the A-Sun. Mercer is 8-4-1 overall and atop the conference standings with a 3-0-0 league record. The Ospreys have played three of their four conference matches on the road, while the Bears have hosted two of their three league contests. Two of North Florida's three victories have come at home, while Mercer is 2-4-0 in true road matches.
The home match against the Bears is just the third home match for the Ospreys in the last 10 matches. North Florida played at Georgia Southern, at No. 25 UC Riverside, vs. San Diego State (in Riverside, Calif.) and at No. 23 Furman before playing UCF in Jacksonville. UNF followed that up with road matches at East Tennessee State and at USC Upstate before a home match with Northern Kentucky and another road match at Florida Gulf Coast. North Florida has not played back-to-back home matches since the weekend of Aug. 31 – Sept. 2.
Mercer holds a slight advantage in the all-time series, leading 4-3-1 overall. UNF is 2-1-1 overall against MU at Hodges Stadium. The Ospreys have won three of the last five meetings between the two teams, including a pair of victories in Jacksonville. North Florida claimed a 2-1 win over Mercer on the road in 2009 to secure a home Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament match in the program's first year eligible for postseason play after UNF's four-year reclassification period to full Division I membership.
The last time the two teams met in Jacksonville, Theo Fulger (2008-10) launched a ball from halfway between the goalie box and midfield, sailing the ball past the Mercer defender for the golden goal and giving the Ospreys a 2-1 overtime victory.
North Florida enters the match after a pair of conference losses last weekend. The soccer team battled Northern Kentucky hard on Friday, Oct. 12, before a late goal gave the Norse a 2-1 victory. In the Ospreys' Sunday match at Florida Gulf Coast, the match remained scoreless for the first 66 minutes before a pair of late goals gave the hosts a 2-0 win.
Mercer heads into the match after a 1-0 loss to USF on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The loss ended a four-match winning streak for the Bears. After USF controlled possession and tempo throughout most the first half, Mercer regrouped at halftime and nearly netted an equalizer several times in the second half before time ran out.
Scouting the Opposition:
Mercer's Greg Ranjitsingh is up for the Crons “Achiever Award” in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The monthly award sponsored by the Atlantic Sun Conference is presented to the school recognized by a fan vote for the most notable achievement from the month prior.
Ranjitsingh had a memorable month in goal for the Bears, leading a Mercer defensive unit that allowed just five goals in the entire month of September. Ranjitsingh recorded four shutouts in September and was named the A-Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Week on two separate occasions. With those four shutouts, the Pickering, Ontario native is now up to 13 clean sheets in his career, moving him into seventh place for the most shutouts in A-Sun Conference history. As of October 12, Ranjitsingh leads all A-Sun Conference goalkeepers in every major statistic, including wins (8), goals against average (0.81), save percentage (.846) and shutouts (6).
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The University of North Florida men's soccer team returns home for an Atlantic Sun Conference match against Mercer on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Hodges Stadium.
Live stats will be available for the event, as well as streaming video via ASun.TV.
North Florida enters the match with a 3-10-0 overall record, including an 0-4-0 mark in the A-Sun. Mercer is 8-4-1 overall and atop the conference standings with a 3-0-0 league record. The Ospreys have played three of their four conference matches on the road, while the Bears have hosted two of their three league contests. Two of North Florida's three victories have come at home, while Mercer is 2-4-0 in true road matches.
The home match against the Bears is just the third home match for the Ospreys in the last 10 matches. North Florida played at Georgia Southern, at No. 25 UC Riverside, vs. San Diego State (in Riverside, Calif.) and at No. 23 Furman before playing UCF in Jacksonville. UNF followed that up with road matches at East Tennessee State and at USC Upstate before a home match with Northern Kentucky and another road match at Florida Gulf Coast. North Florida has not played back-to-back home matches since the weekend of Aug. 31 – Sept. 2.
Mercer holds a slight advantage in the all-time series, leading 4-3-1 overall. UNF is 2-1-1 overall against MU at Hodges Stadium. The Ospreys have won three of the last five meetings between the two teams, including a pair of victories in Jacksonville. North Florida claimed a 2-1 win over Mercer on the road in 2009 to secure a home Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament match in the program's first year eligible for postseason play after UNF's four-year reclassification period to full Division I membership.
The last time the two teams met in Jacksonville, Theo Fulger (2008-10) launched a ball from halfway between the goalie box and midfield, sailing the ball past the Mercer defender for the golden goal and giving the Ospreys a 2-1 overtime victory.
North Florida enters the match after a pair of conference losses last weekend. The soccer team battled Northern Kentucky hard on Friday, Oct. 12, before a late goal gave the Norse a 2-1 victory. In the Ospreys' Sunday match at Florida Gulf Coast, the match remained scoreless for the first 66 minutes before a pair of late goals gave the hosts a 2-0 win.
Mercer heads into the match after a 1-0 loss to USF on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The loss ended a four-match winning streak for the Bears. After USF controlled possession and tempo throughout most the first half, Mercer regrouped at halftime and nearly netted an equalizer several times in the second half before time ran out.
Scouting the Opposition:
Mercer's Greg Ranjitsingh is up for the Crons “Achiever Award” in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The monthly award sponsored by the Atlantic Sun Conference is presented to the school recognized by a fan vote for the most notable achievement from the month prior.
Ranjitsingh had a memorable month in goal for the Bears, leading a Mercer defensive unit that allowed just five goals in the entire month of September. Ranjitsingh recorded four shutouts in September and was named the A-Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Week on two separate occasions. With those four shutouts, the Pickering, Ontario native is now up to 13 clean sheets in his career, moving him into seventh place for the most shutouts in A-Sun Conference history. As of October 12, Ranjitsingh leads all A-Sun Conference goalkeepers in every major statistic, including wins (8), goals against average (0.81), save percentage (.846) and shutouts (6).
MSOC Cine Recap | Senior Night vs TCJ
Wednesday, September 24
North Florida Men's Soccer | Senior Day Stories
Tuesday, September 23
North Florida Men's Soccer | FAU Cine Recap
Monday, September 08
UNF Men's Soccer Practice
Thursday, July 06
