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Vikes Set to Battle Bellarmine on Saturday

Vikes Set to Battle Bellarmine on Saturday
Posted: Mar 12, 2021

Cleveland State at Bellarmine
Saturday, March 13 | 12 p.m.
Owsley B. Frazier Stadium | Lousiville, Ky.

Presented by Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine

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FAMILIAR FOE
Saturday's match marks the third meeting between Cleveland State and Bellarmine. The Vikes have taken each of the last two matchups, including a 9-8 victory in 2020 powered by Chase Baker's three-point day. The two sides will become even more familiar with one another in the coming years as both are set to join the ASUN Conference in 2022. The two sides will square off for the second time this season at Bellarmine on April 17.
 
LOOKING FOR A "W"
The Vikings fell in their first match of the 2021 season on Sunday, Feb. 18 to Mercer by a final score of 10-9 before a late comeback effort fell short in last week's 15-9 setback at Bucknell.
 
BREAKING OUT
After making a pair of apperances as a freshman, sophomore Brendan Sigurdson looks primed for a breakout campaign. The Milford, Ohio native has four goals and three assists for seven points over his first two career starts, including a hat trick in the season opener at Mercer. 
 
IN THE RANKINGS
Goaltender Kevin Sobey has recorded 31 saves through two games, which gives the sophomore the third-most saves per game in NCAA DI: 15.5. Freshman Evan Moskwa has excelled as a faceoff specialist, ranking within the top 35 nationally in faceoff percentage at 52.8 percent. As a team, the Vikes are tied for eighth in the country in man-down defense at 85.7 percent and are sixth in caused turnovers per game (11.5).
 
SURPASSING TRIPLE DIGITS
Michael Wilson was on fire to end 2019, tallying 45 points in his final 10 games. After posting 15 points in seven games in 2020, he now has points in 13 straight games, including 11 multi-point efforts in that span. Wilson's first-quarter assist in the final home game last season pushed his career point total to 100, as he became the first-ever Viking to reach the century mark.
 

SUCCESS IN THE SUMMER
 While box lacrosse leagues across North America were canceled last summer, more than half of Cleveland State's 2020 roster had competed in sanctioned box lacrosse leagues in the summer of 2019. Twenty active Vikings took part in a summer box competition in 2019, including 13 that were part of the second season of the Ohio Collegiate Box Lacrosse League. Noah Gleeson and Karson Burkey highlighted that summer season for CSU by being members of the Rivermen squad that won the inaugural National Collegiate Box Series championship.

CAPTAINING THIS (VIKING) SHIP
 Head coach Andy German announced the fourth set of permanent captains at the beginning of the spring season. Quinn Lemke, Derek Radke and Jason Sullivan will serve as tri-captains in 2021. Lemke is in his second stint as a captain, also serving in the role during the 2019 season.

STUDENT-ATHLETES
 Although Cleveland State did not play any official games this past fall, the program still put up some impressive numbers. The Vikings posted a 3.51 team grade point average in the fall semester. Thirty five Vikings qualified for the Dean's List while 17 of the 52 Vikings on the roster compiled at least a 3.75 mark in the fall. Eight Vikings led the way by achieving a perfect 4.0 mark: redshirt seniors Chase Baker, Quinn Lemke and Nick Wendel, senior Tristan Hanna, junior Gabe Reno and freshmen Carson Croy, Gannon Matthews and Alex Van Voorhis.

VIKING VOLUNTEERS
 Cleveland State has historically run a learn-to-play lacrosse academy at the Urban Community School during the fall, providing the school that caters to low-income children with a once-a-week 'class' in lacrosse. CSU players and coaches attend the school weekly from early September into November to teach the basics of the game and interact with the kids while serving as role models for the younger generation. CSU's programming supports the mission and objectives of the Lacrosse Communities Project-Cleveland. Cleveland State had run this program in the fall of each of the past three years before the pandemic interrupted that streak this past fall.

SPEAKING ABOUT SCHEDULE
 Games against BIG EAST and ACC opponents, four rematches of contests from the 2020 campaign and a first-time opponent highlight Cleveland State's 2021 schedule. CSU had nine regular-season games and one scrimmage on its initial slate. The Vikings will face off against a pair of teams that reached the most recent NCAA Tournament and will meet the same opponent more than once in the same season for the first time. An early April game against VMI will be the first meeting in program history. Two of the Vikings' final three games will see them face off against an opponent that they already faced during the campaign, adding a unique twist to the season. Cleveland State is set to continue its streak of playing at least one team from the ACC and BIG EAST in each year of its existence to date.

 

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