University of St. Thomas Athletics
Lindenwood
Game Notes - Lions visit St. Paul for Saturday Men's Soccer
10/28/2022 2:14:00 PM | Men's Soccer
St. Paul, Minn. - Tommie Men's Soccer (2-10-2 overall, 1-3-1 Summit) has a Saturday Oct. 29 home game vs. Lindenwood (3-9-1, 2-4) -- the first meeting between the two programs, both in transitioning into D-I. Game time is 11 a.m.
It will be Senior Day for seven St. Thomas players in their final home contest -- Devan DiGrado, Wes Lorrens, Jacek Nickowski, Jack Gleckler, Connor Askoz, McRay Drong and Isaac Eckroth. Gleckler and Eckroth and are the lone remaining players from St. Thomas' 2019 conference co-champion squad in its final complete season of Division III play before 2020-21's Covid-reduced season. The others transferred to UST after starting in other programs.
Opponent Watch
Carl Hutter has 40-plus years as a college head coach, the last 29 with the Lions, and is closing in on 800 all-time games, including 350-plus wins at Lindenwood. His first D-I team has only one senior with nine juniors, seven sophomores and 13 freshmen. The Lions have 2-0 and 2-1 wins vs. Southern Indiana; a win over Eastern Illinois; and also have four one-goal losses. They fell 3-1 to first-place Oral Roberts.
Tough at Home
St. Thomas has allowed just seven goals in its last eight home games dating back to last season. The Purple became the first St. Thomas Division I team to tie or beat a top-10 ranked opponent as they played powerful Denver to a 0-0 tie over 90 minutes on Oct. 8 at South Field. The last time No. 10-ranked Denver was shutout after getting 12 or more shots on goal was in 2004. This year's outcome avenged a 3-1 Tommie loss to Denver on the road in 2021.
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The 200 Club
Jon Lowery coached his 200th game with St. Thomas soccer last Saturday Oct. 22. He has won two-thirds of his contests (120-58-22) over his D-III and D-I eras. Lowery played college soccer in Columbus, Ohio, for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the late 1990s. He was twice a first-team All-Big Ten honoree as a goalkeeper.
Over the last decade, Lowery guided St. Thomas' improvement from nine wins in 2014 to 12 wins in 2015, a school-record 20 wins in 2016, a school-record 22 victories in 2017, and added 16 wins in 2018 and 12 in 2019, the last complete D-III season prior to Covid.
Schedule Talk
The 2022 schedule includes 11 rematch games from last season: six involving Summit League opponents as well as California Baptist, Incarnate Word, Gonzaga, UW-Green Bay and Western Michigan. First-time Tommie Men's Soccer opponents in 2022 are UC Riverside, Dayton, Stonehill, Lindenwood, Southern Indiana and Chicago State.
Did You Know?
- St. Thomas is 5-10-2 in its last 17 games since the end of last season, including a 3-3-2 home record. The Toms played three times in eight days Oct. 15-22 and lost 1-0 at Omaha, 5-0 at Oral Roberts, and 1-0 vs. Western Illinois. All five ORU goals came in the second half.
- In their first 14 D-I games last season, the Purple scored just seven goals. In their last 17 games since then, they have scored 14.
- This season St. Thomas has allowed 28 goals in eight road or neutral games but only given up six goals in six home games.
- Sophomore Faris Colic and freshman Carver Tierney both scored goals in back-to-back games vs. Eastern Illinois and Gonzaga on Sept. 24 and 27.
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