No. 13 Seton Hall Clashes with the Crimson Saturday Night - Seton Hall University Athletics
South Orange, N.J. - The No. 13 ranked Seton Hall men's soccer team is seeking its first 6-0-0 start to a season since 1986 Saturday night when it hosts Harv...
South Orange, N.J. - The No. 13 ranked Seton Hall men's soccer team is seeking its first 6-0-0 start to a season since 1986 Saturday night when it hosts Harvard at Owen T. Carroll Field at 6:56 p.m.
The game is free for all to attend, and it will be broadcast on the Pirate Sports Network via FloSports, which requires a subscription. A discounted subscription is available through this link.
This is just the second all-time meeting between the two teams, who battled to a 1-1 tie last year in Boston.
MOVING UP IN THE RANKINGS
- Seton Hall took a huge leap in the Sept. 10 United Soccer Coaches top-25, going from No. 22 to No. 13. It is the largest in-season leap in the polls the Pirates have made since going from No. 24 to No. 13 in September 1998.
- In head coach Andreas Lindberg's tenure, Seton Hall appeared in the United Soccer Coaches top-25 seven times during the 2020 season, reaching as high as No. 6. Then Seton Hall spent four weeks in the national rankings during 2021.
- The Pirates are one of two BIG EAST teams in the current top-25, joining No. 25 Georgetown.
- On Monday, the Pirates went to Piscataway and gave Rutgers the blues in a 3-1 victory over the Scarlet Knights.
- Seton Hall capitalized on Rutgers drawing a red card in the 24th minute, scoring twice before halftime. Liam Guske scored his first career goal in the 32nd minute off passes from Axel Berglund and Sam Bjork. Tim Strobeck connected on a goal in the 41st minute, assisted by Jack Kossoudji and Til Kauschke.
- After Rutgers scored off a Pirates mistake in the 73rd minute, Jared Smith helped put the game away in the 89th minute with an empty net goal off a pass from Aidan Tisony.
- It was the first time Seton Hall and Rutgers had met since 2009, and it was The Hall's first win in the series since 2007.
- This was also Seton Hall's first road win at Rutgers since Sept. 15, 2006, and the eighth all-time win in Piscataway.
- Before beating Rutgers, Seton Hall's last true road win over a Big Ten team came Sept. 8, 1995, a 2-1 victory at No. 12 Penn State.
- Seton Hall has shown outstanding depth so far in its five matches:
- Eight different players have scored a goal
- Eight different players have assisted on a goal
- 14 different players have put a shot on goal
- Both goalkeepers who have played have recorded a clean sheet
- Five different players have earned a BIG EAST weekly honor
- Thomas Sellwood, who is a sophomore academically but a redshirt freshman athletically after sitting out 2023, was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week after scoring the game-winning goal in Seton Hall's 2-0 win over Columbia. Sellwood delivered his first career goal in the 32nd minute in the 2-0 win over Columbia.
- Soren Jensen, a graduate transfer from Post University, was named BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week after making seven saves in the 2-0 win over Columbia. All seven of Jensen's stops came in the second half, and it gave him his first Div. I clean sheet.
SERIES HISTORY
- Seton Hall and Harvard competed on Sept. 9, 2023, and the Pirates led for just under 80 minutes of action. Andrea Borg scored in the 10th minute to put the Pirates up 1-0, but in the 90th minute, with just 29 seconds on the clock, Harvard equalized on a goal from Nik White, and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.
- It's the only match ever played between the two teams.
- Seton Hall is 39-26-11 (.599) all-time against members of the Ivy League.
OPENING SUCCESS
- With its win at FIU, Seton Hall has now won its season opener under head coach Andreas Lindberg for the fifth time in seven tries, and the Pirates are unbeaten in all seven (5-0-2).
- With their win over UAlbany, the Pirates are also now 5-0-2 in their home openers under Lindberg and have not lost a home opener since 2016.
