Men's Soccer | 9/19/2016 1:40:00 PM

STATESBORO – Following Saturday's road win at Mercer, the Georgia Southern men's soccer team will close out the current three-game road swing with a game in Durham, North Carolina on Tuesday, September 20. The Eagles will play Atlantic Coast Conference foe Duke in a 7 p.m. game on the ACC Network Extra, part of the ESPN family of network.

MATCH SNAPSHOT 
GS at Duke
Tuesday, Sept. 20   |  7 p.m. EDT   |   Koskinen Stadium (Durham, N.C.)
Live Stats   |  Video (ACC Network Extra)

SCOUTING THE BLUE DEVILS
Tuesday's match between Georgia Southern and Duke will be just the fourth meeting between the two programs dating back to 2002. The Blue Devils have claimed the three previous games including the last game on September 10, 2013. All three games have been contested in Durham, North Carolina. John Kerr, the sixth head coach in Duke history, is in his ninth season as the head skipper at Duke. He has guided the program to a record of 82-60-21 while in Durham and is 1-0 against Georgia Southern while at Duke.

Duke is 2-2-1 heading into Tuesday's game, including a 2-0-1 record in non-conference play. The Blue Devils have played three ranked teams during the regular-season, including ninth-ranked UCLA in Los Angeles, California, No. 25 Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and 12^th-ranked Wake Forest at home in Durham. Duke defeated UCLA 1-0 but has lost the last two games which were against the BC Eagles and the Demon Deacons.

Through the first five games of the season, the Blue Devils have been led by Brian White and Suniel Veerakone with two goals each. Both also have an assist on the season and have started all five games. In total, eight players have started in all five games and one other, Colby Agu, has also played in all five games. White leads the team with 17 shots and nine shots on goal and he also has both game-winners for Duke. Max Moser and Carter Manley have two assists each and Duke's other three goals have been scored by Ciarran McKenna, Agu and Cameron Moseley. In goal, Robert Moewes has started all five games and has recorded just over 456 minutes between the pipes with Ben Hummel coming in for 13 minutes in one contest. Moewes has made 22 saves on the year while facing 52 shots. He has allowed five goals for a goals against average of 0.99 and a record of 2-2-1 and he has one shutout to his credit.

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LAST TIME OUT
The Georgia Southern men's soccer team bounced back from a tough loss at South Carolina earlier in the week and were rewarded with a road win over a solid Mercer team Saturday night at Bear Field. Blake Wilson scored twice for the Eagles and the defense held strong down the stretch as GS went on to win 2-1 over a Bears team that entered the game with a 5-1 record on the year.

Despite giving up a goal in the second minute, the Eagles didn't get discouraged and continued to attack. That relentlessness paid off just a minute after Mercer's goal as Blake Wilson scored his fifth goal of the season off a feed from Adam Abdellaoui. Wilson found the back of the net again in the 63^rd minute, again off an assist from Abdellaoui, this one a throw-in.

The Eagles had several other chances to extend the lead late in the game, but the Mercer goalkeeper was able to make some changes and recorded four saves on the night. On the other side of the field, redshirt freshman Torgeir Fjaer had six saves compared to the one goal allowed.

MEN'S SOCCER COACHING STAFF ANNOUNCES COACHES SYMPOSIUM
Georgia Southern head men's soccer coach John Murphy and his staff will host a coaching symposium on Saturday, September 24. This four hour event, which will include pre-match insights from Coach Murphy and his staff as they prepare for that evening's game against North Florida, will be held in the Gene Bishop Fieldhouse located at Paulson Stadium.

The coaching symposium, which costs $30 per coach and includes handouts of notes and methods as well as a raffle ticket for adidas items, will be open to both male and female coaches of any level, but will be more geared towards helping high school and club level coaches. The event will include discussion of training themes, methods and rhythms accompanied by video footage of the Eagle men's soccer team's preparation that week. The staff will highlight how scouting and analysis is used in the modern game and how it could be applied to any coach's preparation.

This event will give coaches in attendance the chance to learn insights from the only American born coach to hold both the prestigious EUFA Pro Badge (Scottish Football Association) and a Certificate of Applied Football management from University of Warwick (English Professional League Manager's Association). Murphy is a NSCAA National Instructor and an author of two books and two instructional DVDs.

MEN'S SOCCER WILL PLAY FOUR TIMES ON THE ESPN FAMILY OF NETWORKS
Four Georgia Southern men's soccer games will receive national exposure in the coming weeks with the Eagles having the opportunity to play four times on the ESPN family of networks, including one home game and two during the road swing that begins next week as well as one game in October.

The Eagles got their first national exposure of the year on Tuesday, September 13 at South Carolina when the Eagles and Gamecocks played on the SEC Network+.

Tuesday's game against Duke in Durham, North Carolina is the second nationally-televised game of the year and will be on the ACC Network Extended. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

The third ESPN game of September for the Eagles will be at home against Campbell on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The game against the Fighting Camels will be available on ESPN3 with kickoff slated for 7 p.m. at Eagle Field.

The fourth and final ESPN game currently on Georgia Southern's schedule will be on Tuesday, October 25. On that date, the Eagles will play at Clemson in a 7 p.m. game that will be nationally televised on the ACC Network Extra. Clemson is currently No. 2 in the NSCAA coaches poll and was the national runner up to Stanford last year.

NEXT UP
After Georgia Southern wraps up the current three-game road swing on Tuesday, the Eagles will return home for a pair of games at Eagle Field. GS will first host North Florida on Saturday, Sept. 24 for a 7 p.m. contest and will then welcome Campbell to Statesboro on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The game against the Camels will also be at 7 p.m. and will air on ESPN3.


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