10/9/26
 
SCRANTON, Pa. – After a win and a draw in its last two matches, Lackawanna College men's soccer will look to keep the momentum rolling, as the Falcons take a trip down interstate 81 to take on Shippensburg University on Saturday, October 10^th. Kickoff is set for 2:00pm ET at David See Field on campus in Shippensburg, PA.
 
It's the second time that Lackawanna and Shippensburg have locked horns this season, with Shippensburg taking the first match-up, 3-0, on September 23^rd. An early goal from Shippensburg came in the seventh minute, derailing any potential momentum the Falcons were hoping to capitalize on, and the Raiders put Lackawanna under a ton of pressure through the rest of the game, eventually getting a penalty to go up 2-0 and then adding a third goal to round out the scoring. Read the full recap HERE.
 
Game Details
Who: Lackawanna College Falcons (1-7-3) at Shippensburg University Raiders (2-5-4)
When: Saturday, October 10^th, 2:00pm ET
Where: David See Field, Shippensburg University; Shippensburg, PA
 
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Video Coverage: PSAC Sports Digital Network
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Live stats: Shippensburg Live Stats
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The Falcons
Lackawanna (1-7-3) used an 82^nd minute goal to draw even with East Stroudsburg, earning a point against one of the top teams in the PSAC East this past Wednesday night. After a strong first half that saw plenty of energy, but no goals, the visiting Warriors managed to find a way through in the 53^rd minute. Lackawanna College kept at it, probing and poking away at the ESU defense, eventually equalizing with and 82^nd minute shot from Wisdom Afrani (Accra, Ghana) off a nifty assist from Tito Tokunboh-Salako (Columbia, MD). Lackawanna nearly took the lead just a minute later, then got two big saves late from keeper Kevin Nievas (West Palm Beach, FL) to keep the game tied. East Stroudsburg outshot Lackawanna on the afternoon, 8-7, with a 5-3 advantage in shots on frame. The Falcons posted four saves while the Warriors had a pair. ESU had five corners to just two corner kicks for the Falcons. It was the second-straight game where Lackawanna was able to earn at least a "point" against PSAC competition, after picking up their first win of their Division II campaign against Pitt-Johnstown last weekend. You can read the full recap HERE.
 
On the season, the Falcons have given up 20 goals, a 1.82 goals against average, while scoring four for themselves. Lackawanna has 92 shots, 41 on target (.446), and the opposition has posted 149 shots, 52 on target (.349). The Falcons have 29 corner kicks, while their opponents have 61 corners this year.
 
Tokunboh-Salako leads the Falcons with 13 shots on the season, and has seven shots on target this season. Tito has an assist, which he picked up against East Stroudsburg, and he's recorded three shots in his last two games. Tito had two shots, one on target, against Shippensburg in the first game.
 
Afrani is second on the team with 12 shots, four on target in eleven appearances this season. Afrani scored his first goal of the season against ESU, and he recorded a pair of shots. He recorded a season-high three shots, two on target, against Millersville on September 12^th. Afrani didn't record a shot in 49 minutes against Shippensburg on September 23^rd.
 
First-year forward Miguel Pereira (Revere, MA) has a pair of goals this season for the Falcons, with eleven shots, four on target. Pereira scored a goal in the draw with King's College on September 2^nd, and he scored the game-winner against Pitt-Johnstown on October 3^rd. He didn't score or record a shot in 47 minutes against Shippensburg in the first game. He had one shot against ESU in 70 minutes on Wednesday. 
 
 Cristian Lopez-Contreras (Guatemala) has a pair of assists this season in just five matches, taking nine shots, five on target. Lopez-Contreras picked up an assist against King's College, and then assisted the goal the falcons had against Berkeley (NJ) on September 5^th. Lopez-Contreras has been battling an injury, and hasn't played since the Millersville match on September 12^th.
 
Second-year keeper Nievas has made six appearances, all starts, and he has posted nine saves. Nievas has allowed five goals for a 1.07 goals against average. Nievas missed nearly a month of action with injury, returning to the Falcons for full-time action against Pitt-Johnstown on October 3^rd. Nievas set a season-high with four saves against ESU on Wednesday. He did not see time against Shippensburg in the first match.
 
Before Nievas's return, first-year keeper Rowin Thomas (Abilene, TX) had been thrown into action. Thomas had started the previous five games before the UPJ match last weekend, allowing 15 goals in his seven appearances. He has 24 saves this season, posting a season-best six stops against Shepherd on September 19^th. Thomas had two saves in the loss to ESU on September 9^th, giving up three goals on 17 shots faced. He had four saves in a 3-0 loss to West Chester on September 30^th.
 
Lackawanna College is coached by Will Flannery, in his first season at the helm and who took over the program in February earlier this calendar year. Flannery has coached and played collegiate soccer for the last ten years, previously serving as assistant coach at Lehigh University before coming to Lackawanna. In his one season with the Mountain Hawks, Lehigh made the Patriot League championship game and had six all-conference selections. Before his time in Bethlehem, Flannery spent seven years at Dickinson College in NCAA Division III. While there, he spent five seasons playing with the Devils, then transitioned into coaching immediately after his senior season concluded. Flannery became the first full-time assistant in program history and helped Dickinson achieve never-before-seen heights, including an NCAA Elite 8 appearance and finishing #6 in the national polls in 2024. He was a captain for three years while playing at Dickinson. Flannery also has experience coaching on the youth level, working with the Lehigh Soccer Academy and Lehigh Valley United Rush.
 
 
The Raiders
Shippensburg (2-5-4) comes into the weekend on a bit of a slide, having lost three of its last four contests and going winless in its last four games, a draw with Lock Haven as the only non-loss. The Raiders fell in their last game, 2-0, to Shepherd University at home. The Rams scored a goal in the 28^th minute to take a 1-0 lead in the first half, then added a second half goal late in the 87^th minute to make it 2-0. Shepherd outshot the Raiders, 11-9, with a 6-5 advantage on shots-on-target. The Raiders had six shots in the second half and posted four corners, but couldn't find the equalizer.
 
Shippensburg has scored 12 goals this season, while allowing 18. The Raiders have 125 shots, and their opponents have 138. Shippensburg has 58 shots on target and has an overall SOG percentage of .464, while the opposition has 61 shots on frame and a .442 shots-on-target percentage. Shippensburg has 48 corners this season, while their opponents have 52 corner kicks this year. 
 
Junior defender Nate Herb has a team-best three goals this season, with two coming in a win against Bloomsburg on September 9^th. He added his third in the win against Lackawanna College on September 23^rd. he has nine shots, seven on target this season. Herb has not recorded a shot in his last two games. He was an All-PSAC East Division second team selection as a defender, scoring four goals from his defensive spot and starting in all 16 games for the Raiders a year ago. 
 
Sophomore forward Julius Dogan has a pair of goals this season, both coming in the first two games of the year against Cal U (PA) and Chestnut Hill. Dogan has a team-best 16 shots, eight on target, in eleven games. Dogan had five shots, two on frame, but did not score against Lackawanna College on September 23^rd. He had one shot on target against Shepherd on Wednesday. 
 
First-year midfielder Zac Slevin has two goals and one assist this season, and he has ten shots, seven on target this year. Slevin scored a goal against Bloomsburg on September 9^th, then added a second goal against Shepherd on September 16^th. He picked up an assist in a 6-1 loss to ESU on September 26^th. He did not record a shot against Lackawanna on the 23^rd, and he didn't record a shot against Shepherd this past Wednesday. 
 
Senior keeper Ryan Krumenacker has started and played in ten of eleven matches for Shippensburg this season. Krumenacker has given up 18 goals in that time, a 1.80 goals against average, with 39 saves. He posted his season-best seven saves in three games, his latest coming in a narrow loss to Millersville on September 30^th, where he gave up a goal on 14 shots faced. Krumenacker has one clean sheet this season: The win against Lackawanna on September 23^rd. he had four saves in the loss to Shepherd on Wednesday. 
 
The head coach is Jeremy Spering, now in his 18^th season in charge of the Raiders. Spering took over a program desperate for change, and, after a pair of one-win seasons, he brought that with a school-record 14-win campaign in 2010. The Raiders won the PSAC that season and made the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. Spering has a pair of NCAA tournament appearances in his time at Shippensburg, and won double-digit games again in 2018, going 10-3-4 and making the PSAC quarterfinals. Before arriving at Shippensburg in 2008, Spering was an assistant at Gettysburg College on the women's side in Division III. Before that, he was a three-year member of the men's soccer staff at James Madison University, where he picked up a master's degree in exercise physiology. Spering is a PSAC alum, graduating from Slippery Rock in 2002, where he was a two-year starter for The Rock. He got his coaching start at the college level when he was a volunteer assistant for two seasons, while also serving as head coach at Knoch Area and Slippery Rock Area in the high school ranks. 
  
Next
Lackawanna College is set to return home for its next two games, hosting Bloomsburg on Wednesday, October 14^th at 3:30pm ET and then Shepherd University at 3:30pm ET on Saturday, October 17^th. Both games will be at Schautz Stadium in Dunmore, with the Shepherd match serving as the second of a doubleheader, with the women's teams playing first at 1:00pm ET.