Pirates Set for Showdown with Portland (RV) on Monday Night

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Pirates Set for Showdown with Portland (RV) on Monday Night - Seton Hall University Athletics

South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer finishes off its west coast trip against Portland on Monday night at 8:30 p.m.

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South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer finishes off its west coast trip against Portland on Monday night at 8:30 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
Seton Hall upset No. 10 Oregon State, 1-0, on Friday night at Paul Lorenz Field in Corvallis, Ore. Andrea Borg (Sliema, Malta) scored the lone tally in the 59th minute to secure the Pirates' first road win over a top-10 non-conference foe in 21 years. Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) made a trio of saves, as the Seton Hall defense was able to stand tall against numerous Oregon State opportunities.





BE THE BEST, BEAT THE BEST
The Pirates face a tough slate of six non-conference matches to begin the 2022 season, four of which will be away from home. Of those six non-league foes, five of them finished last season with a winning record. This year, the Pirates will take on five teams who finished inside the top-25 in RPI last season (Oregon State: 2, Georgetown: 4, Providence: 14, Creighton: 17, Villanova: 23). The Pirates will also face seven teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2021, all of which won at least one match.

The Hall will be facing some of the top teams in the country this season. Along with preseason No. 5 Oregon State, the Pirates also have preseason No. 2 Georgetown on their conference slate. This marks the first time since 2010 that Seton Hall will face two preseason top-five teams in the United Soccer Coaches rankings in the same season.

SCOUTING PORTLAND (1-0-2 THIS SEASON; 11-7-1 / 4-2-1 IN 2021)

• Portland enters this one fresh off defeating Cal Poly, 5-0, on Friday night. The Pilots also earned draws against Central Arkansas and No. 21 Indiana so far this season.
• The Pilots' offense is off to a blistering start, scoring 10 goals through three games.
• Former Pirate CJ Tibbling scored his first goal for Portland in Friday's win.
• Portland reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2021 before falling to eventual National Runners-Up, No. 2 Washington.
• Portland is receiving votes in the latest United Soccer Coaches poll.
• This will be the first meeting all-time between Seton Hall and Portland.

NEWS & NOTES

• The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021.
• The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe on the road since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
• The Pirates have conceded just one goal through three matches to start the year, their best defensive start to a season since 2005 when they had three clean sheets to begin the season. Seton Hall has never gone the first four matches of a season allowing just one goal.
• Head Coach Andreas Lindberg sits just two wins away from 200 for his career.
• The Pirates are aiming to stay unbeaten through the first four matches of the year for the third consecutive season.
• This is the Pirates' first trip to the west coast since the 2000 season, when they played Stanford and Cal at the Stanford Invitational.
• Luca Dahn has played wire-to-wire in each of his last nine matches dating back to last season, and has also done so in 36 of his 38 career matches.
• Three Pirates return to the pitch in 2022 as graduate students, as All-BIG EAST Third Team honoree Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) joins JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Paavo Riihijarvi (Oulu, Finland). The trio combined for seven goals and 18 points during the 2021 season.
• Fellow All-BIG EAST Third Teamer Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) enters his senior season, fresh off a campaign where he led the Pirates offensively with five goals, five assists and 15 points.
• Fourteen different Pirates found the back of the next last season. Of that group, nine of them return for the 2022 season.
• This season's roster boasts 12 freshmen, the most since the 2018 team which featured the same number.
• The Pirates also welcome in a pair of transfers: junior Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) from Palm Beach Atlantic, and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Cliffside Park, N.J.) from Clemson

WATCH
The match will be available to watch live on PortlandPilots.com. A link to the live stream can be found here.

 

[catholicman]

Portland is much better than the Oregon State team. They beat them 4 - 0 in a preseason exhibition two weeks ago. They also beat the No. 3 Washington Huskies by a score of 2 - 0, about a week ago, in an exhibition. In addition, the tied Indiana at Indiana in another exhibition. You could discount the results because these were only exhibitions. But I think we really have our work cut out for us. Tough opponent, not ranked, i believe, only due to conference affiliation.

 

[Flnj86]

The ref stinks, Portland is pushing SHU players and knocking them to the ground all over the field. They are not throwing flags.

 

[Flnj86]

SHU 1 Portland 1 Halftime

 

[walnuter]

Seton Hall lost 3-1. The Hall had 6 yellow cards and a red card. They were outshot something like 18-7.

 

[catholicman]

The ref stinks, Portland is pushing SHU players and knocking them to the ground all over the field. They are not throwing flags.

The officiating was very one-sided, very skewed in favor of the home team, almost as if Kim Jun Un was on the home team playing in Pyongyang!

That being said, we did make some incredibly foolish fouls, even when we knew the ref was extremely unfavorable to us. Not so smart.

 

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Pirates Fall on Road to Portland (RV), 3-1 - Seton Hall University Athletics

Portland, Ore. – Seton Hall fell to Portland, 3-1, on Monday night to conclude its west coast swing. The match was tied heading into the second half, but two late Pilots' goals allowed them to pull ahead. Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) scored on a penalty kick for his second goal of the season.

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Pirates Fall on Road to Portland (RV), 3-1​

1 Seton Hall (2-1-1, 0-0-0) 3 Portland (2-0-2, 0-0-0) Score By Periods Team 1 2 F Seton Hall 1 0 1 Portland 1 2 3

Portland, Ore. – Seton Hall fell to Portland, 3-1, on Monday night to conclude its west coast swing. The match was tied heading into the second half, but two late Pilots' goals allowed them to pull ahead. Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) scored on a penalty kick for his second goal of the season.

How it Happened
Portland opened the scoring early, as Brandon Cambridge found the back of the net in the seventh minute to give the Pilots a 1-0 lead. Portland nearly found another goal just 25 seconds later, but Pirate goalkeeper Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) made one of his six saves on the night to deny the scoring chance.

Seton Hall's goal came in the 24th minute after Andrea Borg (Sliema, Malta) was taken down in the penalty area by Portland keeper George Tasouris. Huerman did the honors of stepping up to take the penalty and buried his second goal of the season into the bottom-left corner to level the match at 1-1.

Portland took the lead back in the 70th minute as a counter attack led to Cambridge's second goal of the night. The Pilots would add an insurance goal in the 79th minute as Delentz Pierre headed one in off a corner kick.

Inside the Numbers

• Ronnholmen tied his career-high by making six saves in the setback.
• Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) was the lone Pirate to log all 90 minutes, doing so for the 37th time in his 39 career matches.
• The Pirates registered seven shots on the night, with Borg and Dahn leading the way with two apiece.

News & Notes

• Huerman now has points in three of his first four games of the season, and leads the team with five points overall.
• The Pirates scored a penalty kick goal for the first time since Sep. 28, 2021, when they scored on a pair of PK's against Fordham
• Mark Walier (Holmdel, N.J.) made his first appearance of the season, logging 29 minutes off the bench.

Up Next
The Pirates will return to New Jersey for their final non-conference road match of the season, as they head to Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday at 7 p.m.

 

[Flnj86]

Portland was very physical with no fouls called, but every foul was called on SHU.