University of Delaware Athletics
Delaware to Face Lehigh Friday in Bethlehem
9/1/2016 3:36:00 PM | Men's Soccer
Delaware (2-0-0, 0-0-0 CAA) at Lehigh (1-1-0, 0-0-0 Patriot League)
📅 DATE: Friday, September 2, 2016
🕖 TIME: 7 p.m. Eastern
📍 LOCATION: Ulrich Sports Complex – Bethlehem, Pa.
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LAST TIME OUT 👀
Forward Guillermo Delgado scored the only goal of the match 19 minutes into Sunday's home opener as Delaware posted a 1-0 victory over Fordham at sun-splashed Stuart & Suzanne Grant Stadium. Delgado intercepted a pass from Fordham goalkeeper Rashid Nuhu and beat the keeper low to the right side from 10 yards out to account for the only score of the contest. The Blue Hens, who improved to 2-0 on the year while posting their second consecutive clean sheet, controlled play for most of the afternoon by holding a 19-5 shot advantage and a 7-2 edge in corner kicks. Goalie Todd Morton needed to make just one save on the afternoon as he posted his sixth career shutout.
HEN SCRATCHINGS 🐔
· All-American Guillermo Delgado has started the season hot and was recognized Monday for his efforts as he was named the CAA Men's Soccer Player of the Week. Delgado scored three of UD's four goals and assisted on the fourth to power the Blue Hens to a 2-0-0 opening weekend. The senior tied a career high with five points in the season lid-lifter Friday, tallying two goals and an assist in Delaware's win at Bucknell. In Sunday's victory over Fordham, Delgado scored the game's lone goal, which happened to be the 40th of his career.
· The 2016 campaign marks the 91st season in program history dating to its inception in 1926. In the previous 90 years, Delaware has compiled a record of 431-654-105 (.406) with four 10-plus-win seasons in the last five years and four trips to the CAA Championship match in five seasons.
· Last season, Delaware finished the year by going 10-7-4 overall and finished third in the CAA with a mark of 5-2-1 before falling to Hofstra, 2-0, in the CAA Tournament Final.
· The Blue Hens were predicted to finish second in the CAA Preseason Poll.
· Delaware returns 12 letter winners, including 10 starters, from last year's squad and add five newcomers to the mix.
· UD features a total of nine international players on the roster.
· Guillermo Delgado, Thomas de Villardi and Thibault Philippe garnered Preseason All-CAA accolades.
· Guillermo Delgado, a three-time All-American, was one of 28 men nationally named MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List.
· Guillermo Delgado, Thibault Philippe and Ben Sampson once again serve as the team's captains in 2016.
· Guillermo Delgado is currently second all-time in program history with 90 points on 40 goals (second) and 12 assists (t-ninth).
· Jaime Martinez is tied for 12th in the record books alongside Delgado with 11 career assists.
· The Blue Hens will play nine of their 18 games in the friendly confines of Stuart and Suzanne Grant Stadium this season.
SERIES INFORMATION ⚽️
· Lehigh leads the all-time series against Delaware, 37-16-5, since its inception in 1928.
· Last season, the Hens picked up their first victory over the Mountain Hawks since 2002 with a 3-2 win at Stuart & Suzanne Grant Stadium.
· Guillermo Delgado scored twice while Carlos Perales also found the back of the net in the contest.
· UD goalie Blai Palmi made two saves to earn the victory for the Blue Hens, who enjoyed a 21-7 shot advantage.
· The 2016 season marks Dean Koski's 25th as head coach of the Lehigh's men's soccer program. Since taking over the program in 1991, Koski has guided the Mountain Hawks to two Patriot League Tournament championships (2000, 2015), a Patriot League regular season championship in 2006, four NCAA tournament appearances and 12 Mid-Atlantic Region Top 10 rankings. Koski currently posts a career record of 207-178-60, by far the most wins of any coach in program history.
ABOUT LEHIGH
The Mountain Hawks are 1-1-0 to start the year after shutting out James Madison, 1-0, Friday before being shutout by Radford by the same tally on Sunday. Sophomore Oscar Greene has notched the team's lone goal of the season with his first career score. Senior goalkeeper Jacob Gottwald was named the Patriot League Goalie of the Week after registering 10 total saves against both JMU and RU.
