Game Time...The Northwestern College men's soccer team will make its 2020 season debut this weekend when they play host to Missouri Baptist on Saturday, Sept. 5. Saturday's opener is set to begin at 3:30pm at the NWC Soccer Complex. 

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All-Time... Saturday's match will be the first ever between the two teams. 

About Missouri Baptist... Located in St. Louis, Mo., the Spartans are members of nine-team American Midwest Conference (AMC) where they finished sixth in the 2019 regular season with a 5-5-1 record. They fell to Park (Mo.) in the AMC quarterfinals to end last year at 10-7-2 but had won seven straight games early in the 2019 season. Columbia (Mo.) won the conference title, followed by Lyon (Ark.), Park, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) and Williams Baptist. 

Jake Alverina returns for his ninth season as the head of the Spartans men's soccer program and owns a 61-73-14 overall record. A former letterwinner for the Spartans (1995-96), Alverina returns eight starters and 19 players from last season. 

    By the Numbers (2019 Stats, AMC rank)
    Goals / Game: 2.2 (5th)
    Goals Against / Game: 1.7 (6th)

    Top Players Returning (2019 Stats)
    Cullen Barr (HM All-Conf)  12 goals, 4 assists
    Louie Perez (HM All-Conf)  9 goals, 11 assists
    Richie Taylor (1st team All-Conf)  4 goals, 3 assists
    Davide Bucarelli (2x 1st team All-Conf)  69 saves, 1.68 goals against / game

Northwestern Notes...(2020 Media Guide) 

Head Coach Dan Swier begins his 13th season as the head of the men's soccer program at Northwestern and brings over 40 players into the 2020 season. Swier owns most wins (114), best win percentage (54%) in program history and has guided Raider teams to the postseason nine consecutive years. 

The Raiders finished the 2019 season in fifth place in the GPAC with a 6-5 record, 9-10 overall, losing to Briar Cliff in the conference quarterfinals 3-2. Six starters and eight letter winners are back from last year's squad but Swier needs to account for the loss of Ben Hengst (All-Conference) and Anselmo Kim (All-Conference, #4 in career goals scored and #2 in career assists).

By the Numbers (2019 Stats, GPAC rank)
    Goals / Game: 1.8 (6th)
    Goals Against / Game: 1.6 (6th)

    Top Players Returning (2019 Stats)
    Jake Foscalina (2nd team All-Conf)  11 goals, 1 assists
    Christopher Ten Pas (HM All-Conf)  2 assists
    James Bolger  3 goals, 3 assists
    Matt Roll  3 goals
    Brennan Haggerty  1 goal, 3 assists