Pirates End in Draw with Butler on Senior Night

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Pirates End in Draw with Butler on Senior Night - Seton Hall University Athletics

The Pirates wrapped up their regular season schedule on Saturday night, finishing in a scoreless draw with Butler.

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0 Butler (9-5-2, 4-3-2) 0 Seton Hall (7-2-7, 4-1-5) Score By Periods Team 1 2 F Butler 0 0 0 Seton Hall 0 0 0

South Orange, N.J. – The Pirates wrapped up their regular season schedule on Saturday night, finishing in a scoreless draw with Butler. Prior to the match, the Pirates honored 11 departing seniors on Senior Night.

How it Happened
The two sides engaged in a defensive first half that featured five total shots. Neither team was able to formulate too dangerous of a chance, but the most threatening opportunity came in the 34th minute. Butler's Wilmer Cabrera dribbled a ball inside the penalty area, forcing Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) to come off his line. Cabrera tried to chip the ball over Ronnholmen, but the senior reached up to tip it away.





Ronnholmen was called upon to make another save early in the second half, once again coming off a Cabrera shot. The Butler attacker danced through the Pirate defense and laced a shot from just inside the 18-yard box. Ronnholmen dove to his left to make a beautiful save to keep things scoreless.





The closest opportunity of the evening for the Pirates came from JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) in the 55th minute. After a ball was passed back to Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) adjacent to the penalty area, the defender swung a cross into the box. Marin timed his jump well about 12 yards from goal, but his header sailed just over the crossbar.





One more late chance formed for Seton Hall in the 87th minute as the attack pressed to find another late go-ahead goal. Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) found the ball at his foot from about 22 yards out and rifled a shot towards the near post. Butler goalkeeper Gabriel Gjergi dove to his left to make the stop to keep the Pirates off the scoreboard.

News & Notes

• With the draw, the Pirates will have to wait until the conclusion of Wednesday's matches to determine their seeding for the BIG EAST Tournament.
• Due to UConn's draw tonight, the Pirates can finish no lower than third in the BIG EAST standings.
• With the draw, Seton Hall completes an unbeaten regular season home schedule for the second time in the last three seasons.
• The seven draws this season extends the new program record for ties in a single season.
• Ronnholmen's shutout is his sixth of the season, tying him for the second most clean sheets in a season in program history. It's the most shutouts by a Pirate goalkeeper in a season since Julian Spindler, who has seven back in 2014.
• Luca Dahn has played wire-to-wire in 45 of his 48 career matches, including 14 of his 15 matches this season.
• The Pirates honored 11 seniors prior to the match: Torre Avitabile, James Boote, Luca Dahn, Quenzi Huerman, Hugo Keller, Denis Kelmendi, JP Marin, Eden O'Leary, Johannes Pex, Paavo Riihijarvi and Hannes Ronnholmen.

Up Next
The Pirates will await the results of the Xavier-Butler match on Wednesday night to determine their seeding in the BIG EAST Tournament. Should the Pirates receive a bye, they will next take the pitch on Thursday, Nov. 10 at the Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds, Md. If the Pirates host a quarterfinal match, it will be held at Owen T. Carroll Field next Saturday, Nov. 5.

 

[Halldan1]

SCHOOL CONF PTS. OVERALL PCT. HOME AWAY NEUTRAL STREAK Georgetown 7-1-1 22 9-4-3 .656 7-1-2 2-3-1 0-0 W5 Seton Hall 4-1-5 17 7-2-7 .656 3-0-4 4-2-3 0-0 T1 Xavier 3-1-5 14 9-1-6 .750 4-0-4 5-1-2 0-0 T1 Butler 4-3-2 14 9-5-2 .625 6-2-1 3-3-1 0-0 T1 Creighton 3-2-4 13 6-3-6 .600 5-1-4 1-2-2 0-0 W1 UConn 3-3-3 12 6-6-3 .500 5-4 1-2-3 0-0 T1 Providence 2-2-5 11 4-4-7 .500 3-2-4 1-2-3 0-0 T2 St. John's 2-3-4 10 4-7-5 .406 4-2-3 0-5-2 0-0 T1 DePaul 1-4-4 7 4-6-6 .438 2-2-3 2-4-3 0-0 L2 Villanova 2-6-1 7 6-8-2 .438 5-3-1 1-5-1 0-0 W1 Marquette 0-5-4 4 4-9-4 .353 4-4-2 0-5-2 0-0 L1

 

[TrueBlue1989]

Great season given preseason ranking.

 

[Halldan1]

What's the tie breaker as it's possible that Xavier or Butler will end of with the same amount of points as the Hall? They're playing each other so a tie would be the best result.

 

[SHU Advisory]

What's the tie breaker as it's possible that Xavier or Butler will end of with the same amount of points as the Hall? They're playing each other so a tie would be the best result.

A draw gets Seton Hall a buy and 2nd seed. If Butler beats Xavier, Butler gets 2nd seed, Seton Hall 3rd seed. If Xavier wins, they will get 2nd seed and buy, as they would end up with identical record as Seton Hall.

Since Xavier and Seton Hall played to a draw, tiebreaker likely will go to Xavier by results vs higher seeds.

 

[silkcitypirate]

If we finish 3rd we play a home game in the quarter finals.

 

[SHU Advisory]

If we finish 3rd we play a home game in the quarter finals.

Not the preferred path, as the League is very even, outside of Georgetown,from the 2 to 8 spot this season, and any match can go either way.

A buy will allow them to likely qualify for the NCAAs with just a single neutral site victory.

Root for a Butler Xavier draw on Wednesday

 

[SHUisNJsTeam]

Why all of the ties? Why not go to sudden death? I want W’s, not T’s or L’s.

 

[mjkpa]

Big East conference eliminated OT this year for regular season games.

 

[SHUisNJsTeam]

Big East conference eliminated OT this year for regular season games.

They don’t even do 2 OT’s before leaving it as a tie? Ugh.

 

[STLPirate12]

I would assume the tiebreaker is record against the best common opponent. All 3 of us lost to Georgetown, meaning a tie for 2nd would likely be settled by who finishes 4th. If it's the loser of the Butler-Xavier game we lose. Otherwise I think it's:

Creighton: we beat Butler, Lose to Xavier
UConn: Goes to 5th as all 3 of us beat them
Providence: We beat Butler, goes to 5th with Xavier as we both tied them

So if they tie, we're 2nd
If Xavier wins, we're 3rd
If Butler wins, it depends on the Creighton-Providence result
If Creighton wins, we're 2nd
If Providence wins, they go into a tiebreaker scenario with Xavier, making this even more complicated and I don't care to dig that far

 

[STLPirate12]

They don’t even do 2 OT’s before leaving it as a tie? Ugh.

It may actually be pretty smart. Ties are less damaging to the rankings at and at-large chances than Ls.

 

[lloyde dobler]

Big East conference eliminated OT this year for regular season games.

NCAA did