2017 Men's Soccer Championship Program

2017 MAAC Men’s Soccer Championship

2017 MAAC Men’s Soccer Championship

NIAGARA UNIVERSITY

Location.................Niagara University,NY Founded........................................1856 Enrollment. ................................. 4,025 Colors............................. Purple & White Nickname..........................Purple Eagles President........ Rev. James J. Mahar, C.M. Director of Athletics. .............Simon Gray Head Coach.............................Bill Boyle Assistant Coach. ...............Michael Meyer Assistant Coach. ..................David Hesch

2017 ROSTER

No. Name

Yr.

Pos. Ht.

Wt.

Hometown/Previous School

00 Nicky Dhanjal

Fr. GK 6-0 154 Wallington, Surrey, England/Carshalton Boy Sports College

0 Mick Keilen 1 Steve Casey 3 Matt Lopoyda

So. GK 5-7 160 R-Jr. GK 6-6 210

Berlin, NY/Morrisville State College Buffalo, NY/Williamsville South

PARTNERS

Jr. M 5-10 160 Niagara Falls, Ontario/Belmont University

4 Mbongeni Tshuma

Jr.

F

5-8 149

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe/Davis and Elkins College Kitchener, Ontario/Resurrection Catholic S.S. Bolton, Ontario/Humberview S.S. Aguascalientes, Mexico/Oak Park Miami, FL/Miami Coral Park Senior Kitchener, Ontario/Forest Heights Collegiate Institute Toronto, Ontario/St. Roch Catholic S.S. Argentina/Cypress Bay

5 Borna Juracic

So. B 6-0 165

6 Owen Carter

So. M 5-11 155

7 Hector Solorio Villalpando Jr.

M 5-8 160 M 5-8 160

8 Bautista Pedezert 9 Sergio Lujan 10 Zulfikar Karimi 11 Josh Tufino 12 Omar Cruz 13 Rhys Lanskail 14 Jordan Acevedo 15 Sebastian Diaz 16 Luca Pacheco

Jr.

Sr. F

5-10 150

So. M 5-8 145

NIAGARA UNIVERSITY WEBSITE PURPLEEAGLES.COM SCHEDULE/RESULTS

BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME BELFAST CLASSIC THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME BELFAST CLASSIC PRESENTED BY THE SPORT CHANGES LIFE FOUNDATION AND IT’S PARTNER THE METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE WILL FIELD FOUR U.S COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAMS FOR THE FIRST-EVER BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME BELFAST CLASSIC ON DECEMBER 1ST AND 2ND 2017. WITH AER LINGUS AS OUR OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER FOR THE EVENT WE CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU TO VISIT BELFAST AND WITNESS THIS HISTORIC EVENT THAT WE HAVE CREATED WITH OUR PARTNERS THE RORY FOUNDATION, TOURISM NI, TOURISM IRELAND, BELFAST CITY COUNCIL, CHAKA TRAVEL AND VELOCITY WORLDWIDE POWERED BY DARIUS.

GAME TIMES LOCATION: THE SSE ARENA, BELFAST TWO-DAY TOURNAMENT DATE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 HOLY CROSS VS. MANHATTAN COLLEGE - 4.30PM LA SALLE UNIVERSITY VS. TOWSON UNIVERSITY - 7PM SATURDAY 2, 2017 CONSOLATION GAME - 3PM CHAMPIONSHIP GAME - 5.30PM

So. M 5-11 155

Sr. M 5-6 145 Gaithersburg, MD/Eastern Nazarene College

Fr. B 5-7 138 Fr. B 6-0 172 Fr. B 6-2 170

Orillia, Ontario/Elmvale District Barrie, Ontario/Bear Creek Secondary

STATISTICS STANDINGS

Lakewood, NY/Southwestern

Fr. M 5-10 160 Burlington, Ontario/Corpus Christi Catholic

17 Absalom Solorio Villalpando So. M/F 5-9 140

Aguascalientes, Mexico/OakPark

CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION MAAC CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY WEEKLY AWARDS

18 Joel Gerberich 19 Asante Carroll

Sr. GK 6-3 180

Akron, OH/Revere

So. F

5-9 155

Lidenhurst, NY/Copiague

20 Matthew Krucko-Moeller

Fr. B 6-1 170

Burlington, Ontario/Assumption Catholic Secondary Derby, NY/Lake Shore Central

21 Andrew McDonagh 22 Mackenzie Roach 23 Alek Wendland 24 Ismail Kucevic 25 Andrew Francisco 26 Konrad Zydowicz 27 Jacob Myer 28 Brian Barry 30 Kyle Walters 31 Ben Christidis 32 Danilo Pekovic

Fr. B 6-1 178

TWITTER: @NUPURPLEEAGLES FACEBOOK: /PURPLEEAGLES

So. M 5-9 140 Marysville, ON/St. Theresea Catholic S.S.

R-So. B 6-0 170

Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima

So. F

6-0 205

Utica, NY/Utica Proctor

Jr.

B 5-11 165

Camillus, NY/ West Genesee Rochester, NY Aquinas Institute Reston, VA/The Heights School Holbrook, NY/Sachem North Bel Air, MD/Arcadia University Rochester, NY/Worcester Academy

Gr. B 5-11 150 So. B 6-2 170 Fr. B 5-8 160 So. B 5-9 172 Fr. M 5-11 175 Fr. M 5-9 142

WWW.BELFASTBASKETBALLCLASSIC.COM @BELFASTBASKETBALLCLASSIC

Denver, CO/East High

@BELFASTCLASSIC

@BELFASTCLASSIC

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