Tribe Continues Road Trip with CAA Matches

W&M will travel to James Madison on Friday, Oct. 6, and then to VCU on Sunday, Oct. 8.

10/04/06 3:00PM

Williamsburg - The William and Mary men’s soccer team will look to get back on the winning track with a pair of difficult CAA road contests. The Tribe will travel to Harrisonburg, Va., to battle James Madison at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, before taking on VCU on Sunday, Oct. 8, at 1 p.m. The matches will bring a close to the Tribe’s current four-match CAA road trip. W&M will have three straight home games following the weekend. The match against VCU will have live stats available by visiting the VCU Athletics Web site.

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Tribe Home Matches Live Over the Internet
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Tribe News and Notes
- The Tribe’s 1-1 tie with Northeastern marked the first time this season W&M tied a match and went to overtime. A season ago, the Tribe set a school record with five ties, including eight overtime games.

- Junior midfielder Doug Ernst ranks 20th nationally in assists per game at 0.50 per contest. He is tied for the CAA lead with six helpers.

- W&M opened the CAA portion of the schedule with a 4-0 victory over Drexel on Sept. 22. It marked the first time the Tribe had won its CAA opener in four seasons.

- The Tribe claimed its first ODU Stihl Soccer Classic since 1998 and the fourth overall with its perfect 2-0 mark at the event.

- W&M opened the season against five straight teams that played in the NCAA Tournament a season ago. It marked the first time in school history that had occurred. Included in those five contests were four against teams ranked among the top 25 in the country (No. 1 North Carolina, No. 16 Wake Forest, No. 24 South Carolina and No. 8 Virginia Tech).

- The Tribe scored five goals in its victory over VMI. It marked the most goals the Tribe has scored in a game since the season opener in 2005. In that contest, W&M put eight goals on the board against Saint Joseph’s.

- The Tribe scored five goals in its victories over VMI and UNCG, marking the first time since the 2003 campaign that the College had two games of five or more goals during a season.

- W&M notched back-to-back five-goal games against VMI and UNC Greensboro, marking the first time since the 2001 campaign that the College has accomplished the feat. In 2001, the Tribe defeated College of Charleston, 5-0, on Sept. 1, before notching a 6-1 win over Marist on Sept. 3.

- The W&M-ODU game in Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 26 will be televised live on Fox Soccer Channel as part of the NSCAA/FSC College Soccer Game of the Week. It will be the 10th men’s contest on television and is slated for 8 p.m. at ODU.

- Senior goalkeeper Kris Rake recorded his 13th career shutout against Drexel to move past Trevor Upton (1999-02) into fifth on W&M’s career shutouts list.

- Senior forward Pat Scherder scored his 20th career goal in the Tribe’s 4-0 victory over Drexel. He leads all current W&M players in career goals.

- The schedule for the 2006 season will test the Tribe as half of its opponents made an appearance in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Six of those teams were ranked in at least one of the major preseason top 25.

- Two former W&M players are currently playing in Major League Soccer (MLS) with another playing in the Norway. Steve Jolley (1993-96) is in his 10th season as an MLS vet, playing for Red Bull New York. He has appeared in 15 matches with 10 starts, while earning one assist. Wade Barrett (1994-97) is in his first season with the Houston Dynamo, earning 29 starts, while assisting on three goals. Former All-American Adin Brown (1996-99) is the first-team goalkeeper for Aalesunds FK in Norway. In total, over 27 former Tribe players have played pro soccer at some level.

Scouting James Madison
James Madison is coming off only its second defeat of the season, falling, 3-2 in overtime to Delaware on Oct. 1. The Dukes had won six straight matches and were ranked among the top 25 nationally in the NSCAA rankings. James Madison ranks third nationally in scoring offense with 2.8 goals per contest.

JMU, while not currently ranked in any national poll, is receiving votes in the Soccer Times and College Soccer News polls. The Dukes are ranked sixth in the South Atlantic region according to the NSCAA, while Top Drawer Soccer projects JMU as an NCAA Tournament at-large team. James Madison is 8-2 on the year and 3-1 in the CAA.

Kurt Morsink leads not only James Madison, but the CAA in scoring with 24 points and nine goals. His six assists on the year also are tied for the league lead with W&M’s Doug Ernst. Mark Totten and Kyle Morsink are tied for second on the team with nine points and four goals apiece. Lasse Kokko and Mike Tuddenham each have three tallies for the Dukes. Kevin Trapp has played every minute in goal. He has a GAA of 1.19 with 25 saves and four shutouts.

W&M and JMU have split the all-time series, 17-17-7. The Dukes hold an 8-3-3 advantage in Harrisonburg against the Tribe. Last season, the teams played to a 0-0 draw in Williamsburg, In 2004, JMU notched a 1-0 win in overtime in Harrisonburg. W&M has not won at James Madison since the 1987 season.

Scouting VCU
After winning two of its first three and garnering the No. 19 national ranking, VCU has fallen on some hard times winning only two of its last eight contests. The Rams are 4-7 overall on the year and 2-2 in the CAA with victories over Seton Hall, UNC Greensboro, UNC Wilmington and Delaware. VCU will host Old Dominion on Oct. 6, before facing the Tribe.

Aside from the conference ledger, the Tribe and Rams have a pair of common opponents in UNC Greensboro and North Carolina. Both teams are 1-1 against the pair. W&M defeated UNCG, 5-1, at the ODU Stihl Soccer Classic and fell to UNC, 2-0, to open the year at the Wake Forest adidas Classic. VCU defeated Greensboro, 3-1, while falling, by the same 3-1 score to the Tar Heels.

Matthijs Maruanaya leads the Rams in scoring with eight points on three goals and two assists. Pat Viray is tied with Maruanaya for the team lead in goals with three. He has an assist to go along with the scores for seven points. Thomas Weingartner leads VCU in assists with three. Fred Owusu Sekyere and David Rosebaum have both scored twice on the year for the Rams, who are one of the lowest scoring teams in the CAA. Andrew Dykstra has started 10 of 11 games for the Rams. He has played a total of 931 minutes with a GAA of 1.26, 29 saves and two shutouts.

W&M holds the all-time series advantage over VCU, 13-8-2. The Tribe is 6-4-1 in Richmond with a 51-21 scoring cushion in the 23 all-time meetings. Last season, the two teams played to a 0-0 draw in Williamsburg. W&M has not defeated the Rams since a 3-2 overtime win in Richmond during the 2001 campaign.

Scoring in Pairs
Sophomore forward Andrew Hoxie notched two goals in the Tribe’s CAA opening victory over Drexel, 4-0, on Sept. 22. He notched the College’s first two goals, including an impressive finish from a severe angle early in the second half to give the Tribe a 2-0 cushion. It marked his second two-goal game over a three game period. He also had a pair of tallies against UNC Greensboro on Sept. 15.

His pair of two-goal games over a three-match stretch marked the first time the feat had been accomplished by a Tribe player since 2001. Carlos Garcia, currently playing for the Detroit Ignition in the MISL, scored two goals in a game twice over the three game stretch during that season. He tallied the final two W&M goals in a 3-1 win over Fairleigh Dickenson on Oct. 13, 2001, before scoring both Tribe goals in a 2-1 overtime win over George Mason on Oct. 27.
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Return to Health
After missing the majority of the 2005 season with an injury, senior forward Pat Scherder has shown he is back to full strength in 2006. Scherder ranks third on the team with 10 points on four goals and two assists. He ranks eight in the CAA in goals and ninth in points.

Scherder notched his first career two-goal performance in the Tribe’s 5-1 win over then-No. 29 UNC Greensboro at the ODU Soccer Classic. He went on to earn All-Tournament honors as the event, marking the second time he earned an All-Tournament honor this season. He also garnered the accolade at the Wake Forest adidas Classic to open the year.

Against Stony Brook, Scherder not only iced the game with his second-half goal, but started for the first time in nearly a year. Scherder last started a match on Sept. 9, 2005 against Clemson. The Vienna, Va., native earned first-team all-conference and second-team all-region accolades as a junior in 2004, but missed the final 15 games of last season. The speedy forward leads all current Tribe players in career goals with 20.

Answering the Call
Before the season, head coach Chris Norris said he had high expectations for junior midfielder Doug Ernst. The third-year head man of the Green and Gold felt it was time for the Alexandria, Va., native to step up his offensive production, given his success at the prep and club levels. This season, Ernst has answered the call and is enjoying a breakout season.

Ernst has found the back of the net on three occasions, but more impressively is tied for first in the CAA in assists with six. He also ranks 20th nationally in assists per game at 0.50 per contest.

In the CAA opening victory over Drexel, Ernst notched a pair of assists his second two-assist game of the season. He became the first W&M player to notched a pair of multiple assist games in a season since Phil Hucles had two, two-assist games in 2003. Ernst’s six assist this season are already the most in a campaign for a W&M player since Hucles had seven and Bryan Hinkle had nine in 2003.

Scoring with a Quickness Into the Record Books
The Tribe broke open a 1-0 halftime lead with goals 20 seconds apart in the 60th minute and a trio of tallies just over three minutes apart against VMI. Sophomore forward Andrew Hoxie chipped the goalkeeper from 35 yards after a failed clearance at 60:23, before freshman midfielder Price Thomas hammered home a volley from six-yards out on a cross from senior forward Pat Scherder at 60:43. Junior Chris Wayne added a bending free kick from 25 yards out at 63:28, giving W&M three straight scores in 3:05.

The 3:05 time span between the trio of Tribe goals was the 11th fastest between three goals by one team in NCAA history. The 3:05 was also the fastest in the NCAA since three UMBC players (Drew Perkins, John Clark and Larry Scheller) scored 1:46 apart in a victory over Valparaiso on Oct. 12, 2001.

The W&M goals 20 seconds apart established a school record for the fastest two consecutive goals. The 20-second mark also ranks as the 21st-fastest consecutive goals by a team in NCAA history. According to the 2006 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer Record Book, it is also the fastest set of goals for a single team in nearly four years. The last time one team scored 20 seconds apart came on Sept. 27, 2002 when Mike Rosenthal and M.J. Serota of UMKC scored 20 seconds apart against Denver