MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran men's soccer team (7-2 overall) has two road games this week. The Vikings will face Northwestern (1-7-1) Tuesday at 7 p.m. in a nonconference match.
Follow the Vikings
Click here for the
live video, provided by UNW.
Click here for the
live stats.
The Series
UNW leads 17-5-4 as the teams have met at least once every season since 2004.
Bethany Lutheran
The Vikings enter the week on a school-record six-game winning streak.
Freshman Max Busch (
Odenthal, Germany) leads the team with 11 goals for 22 points. Classmates Joao Bastos (Piracicaba, Brazil) follows with six goals and Marcel Campabadal has five. Freshman Luke Oosterbosch (
Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has a team-best 12 assists.
Senior Moritz Bruns (Leer, Germany) has a .846 save percentage and 0.69 goals against average and two shutouts.
Career Record Watch
Bruns is fifth in goalkeeper wins (6), tied for fifth in shutouts (3) and ninth in saves (89). Senior Samuel Duran (Marshall, Minn.) is seventh in goals (14) and points (34). Classmate Jonny Sehloff (Mankato, Minn.) is tied for eighth in goals (12) and ninth in points (28).
Busch is tied for seventh in goals (11) and tied for seventh in game-winning goals (3). Oosterbosch is fourth in assists (12).
Single Season Record Watch
Oosterbosch is the single season record holder in assists (12) and he and Busch are tied for sixth with one PK. Busch is tied for fourth with three game-winning goals, tied for first in goals (11) and fourth in points (22).
Bruns is tied for fourth in wins (4).
As a team, BLC has set a new school record in assists (34). The previous mark was 33 set in 2013.
National Stat Rankings
Bethany Lutheran ranks in the top 100 of 12 national stat categories, the NCAA released today.
The Vikings lead the nation in total goals (39) and are second in assists/game (3.78), total assists (34), points (112), and points/game (12.44), fourth in corner kicks/game (8.78), fifth in shots/game (22.67), sixth in shots on goal/game (10.89), 19th in team goals against average (.556), 39th in shutout percentage (.556), 41st in won-lost-tied percentage (.778), and 43rd in save percentage (.839).
Individually, five rank in the top 100.
Oosterbosch is first in assists (12), second in assists/game (1.33), 22nd in points (20), 26th in points/game (2.22), and 93rd in shots/game (3.56).
Vincent Ayodi is 21st in assists (5), 24th in assists/game (.63) and Duran is 69th in assists (4) and 99th in assists/game (.44).
Busch is second in goals/game (1.57), third in points/game (3.14), seventh in goals (11), 10th in shots on goal/game (2.86), 12th in shots/game (5.14) and points (22), and 15th in game-winning goals (3),
Bastos is 81st in goals (6).
Northwestern
Samuel Jorgensen leads his team with four goals. Keeper Austin Gunkel has played the most in goal and has 34 saves and one shutout.