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TERRE HAUTE, Indiana -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men's soccer team travels to Bluffton for a 3:30 PM Sunday kickoff. The Fightin' Engineers come in at 5-1 on the season with their lone loss coming to Ohio Northern back in September.
ROSE-HULMAN NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman comes into this match with a 9-1-2 record and a 5-0-0 record in the HCAC.
* The Fightin' Engineers are 5-1 on the road this season including wins over Wabash and DePauw.
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Takezo Kelly and
AJ Yilmaz lead the team in five goals on the season.
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Caleb Urban has also added four goals for the Fightin' Engineers including a hat trick last weekend.
* Urban is the team leader in assists with six, and
Tyler Eldridge has added four assists as well.
* The Fightin' Engineers swept the Player of the Week awards last weekend with Urban winning the Offensive award and
Michael Trinh winning the Defensive award.
* In goal,Â
John Biederstedt has made 26 saves to just 5 goals allowed. He also has five clean sheets and two combined clean sheets in eleven games this season.
* Trinh has not allowed a goal on the season with one clean sheet and two combined clean sheets. He has made four saves in his three appearances this season.
* The Fightin' Engineers men's soccer team has not allowed a goal since their September 24th loss to Ohio Northern. That is a 455 minutes scoreless streak for the Fightin' Engineers defense which currently ranks as the 12th longest in school history.
BLUFFTON NOTES:
* Manchester comes into this mid-week match with a 5-5-3 record on the season and a 3-2Â record in the HCAC.
* The Beavers have struggled on their home field this year at just 1-4-2, but they are 4-1-1 away from home.
* The Bluffton has wins over Heidelberg, La Roche, Franklin, Mount St. Joseph, and Earlham.
* The Bluffton duo up top of Dalton Taynor and Elijah Zimmerman has been lethal for the Beavers. Taynor has 8 goals and 3 assists on the season, and Zimmerman has 6 goals and 2 assists.
* Angel Velasco-Urbina has lead the Beavers in goal for all 13 games this season, and he has made 66 saves to 20 goals allowed. He has also recorded three clean sheets on the season.
SERIES NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman leads the all-time series 16-0 against Bluffton.
* The Fightin' Engineers won last season's meeting 5-1 with goals from
Takezo Kelly,
Tatenda Mafa, and
Owen Trudt.
* The Fightin' Engineers have outscored Earlham 57-6 all-time.
* Nine of the 16 all-time meetings have been decided by three goals or more.
* Manchester's only road win at Rose-Hulman came in 2001.
CAREER STATS NOTES:
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Takezo Kelly - 1st in Shots/Game (3.20), 3rd in Game-Winning Goals (13), 3rd in Shots (179), 3rd in Points/Game (1.36), 3rd in Goals/Game (0.55), 4th in Goals (31), 4th in Points (76), 7th in Penalty Kicks Made (2), 14th in Assists (14), 14th in Assists/Game (0.25)
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Caleb Urban - 3rd in Assists (23), 3rd in Assists/Game (0.40), 15th in Shots/Game (1.51)
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AJ Yilmaz - 6th in Shots/Game (2.08), 10th in Game-Winning Goals (6), 11th in Shots (123), 14th in Assists (14), 15th in Assists/Game (0.24)
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John Biederstedt - 13th in Clean Sheets (5), 12th in Goalie Wins (7)
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Tyler Eldridge - 11th in Assists/Game (0.26), 12th in Shots/Game (1.81)
HCAC STANDINGS:
1. Rose-Hulman (5-0)
2. Hanover (4-0-1)
T3. Transylvania (3-2)
T3. Bluffton (3-2)
5. Manchester (2-1-2)
T6. Franklin (2-3)
T6. Anderson (2-3)
T8. Mount St. Joseph (1-4)
T8. Earlham (1-4)
10. Defiance (0-4-1)