Men's Soccer (9-4-4, 1-3-2) Posts Scoreless Tie in Lone Contest, Completes Regular Season

The Wheaton College men's soccer team posted a scoreless tie at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) on Saturday in its lone contest of the week, completing its regular season and New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) slates in the process. The Lyons will hold down the sixth seed in the league tournament, which begins when the Blue and White travels to number-three Clark University for a first-round contest on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. The contest will be the initial time Wheaton hits the road for a NEWMAC Tournament game since 2004 and mark the first time in 11 seasons of being in a league that the Lyons play a first-round game away from Norton. Wheaton looks to advance to the semifinal round for the ninth straight season, as the semifinals and final will be held on Saturday and Sunday at Babson College. The Lyons seek their fourth straight NEWMAC Tournament crown, which would give them a berth into their sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament.

At WPI, the Lyons played to their second consecutive scoreless tie for the first time since 1994, moving to 1-1-4 in overtime games this season. Wheaton held advantages of 17-8 in shots and 8-2 in corner kicks, while sophomore keeper Cole Davidson (Needham, MA/Salisbury School) made three saves in recording his second clean sheet of the year. Davidson also extended his shutout streak to 244:06, as he has now yielded just one goal in his past 329:10.

After Wheaton's freshmen, the Class of 2011, scored 28 of the team's 45 goals and recorded 34 of 50 assists last season, the class has played a role in 34 of 36 tallies thus far, with 28 goals and 31 assists. Sophomore Josh Solomon's (Acton, MA/Acton-Boxboro Regional) 10 assists this fall are tied for fourth in program history, while classmate Yuri Moreira's (Marlboro, MA/Northfield Mount Hermon School) 11 goals leave him just one marker outside the single-season top 10. Solomon has 17 career helpers, one shy of the top 10.