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CSU Continues Road Trip at Cincinnati and Detroit

CSU Continues Road Trip at Cincinnati and Detroit
Posted: Sep 13, 2016

MATCH #6
at Cincinnati | Wednesday, Sept. 14 | 7:00 p.m.
Live Stats | Video

MATCH #7
at Detroit | Saturday, Sept. 17 | 1:00 p.m.
Live Stats | Video

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Week #4

THE OPENING KICK:
 • Cleveland State has a pair of road matches this week to conclude a three-game road trip, its second straight week with two contests.
• CSU heads to Cincinnati Wednesday, Sept. 14. The Vikings are 7-7-1 all-time against the Bearcats, and this is the fifth straight season they have met.
• CSU topped UC, 3-1, last year as Gianluca DiFranco, Dan Koniarczyk and Jake Lagania scored. However, CSU is winless in its last four trips to Cincinnati.
• CSU will resume Horizon League action by traveling to Detroit Saturday. The Vikings and Titans have met eight times in the last six seasons and have faced each other every year since 1994.
• The Vikings are 11-16-2 all-time against Detroit but are 6-3-1 in the last 10 meetings. However, CSU has not won at Detroit since 2008. 

RECAPPING LAST WEEK:
 • Cleveland State dropped a heartbreaker to Bowling Green, 1-0, in double overtime to begin the week. Freshman Sebastian Kalk made 10 saves.
• CSU rebounded by opening league play with a 2-1 win at Belmont. Dan Koniarczyk and Hesham Hammouda staked the Vikings to a 2-0 lead. 

FREE KICKS:
 • Head coach Ali Kazemaini announced August 17 that he will step down at the end of this season, his 11th with the Vikings.
• Kazemaini owns 80 wins for CSU, the most in program history.
• CSU has been seeded fourth or better in the Horizon League Tournament in each of the past eight seasons, the longest active streak in the league. It most recently won the league tournament in 2012.
• Cleveland State fired 28 shots in its Horizon League opener at Belmont last weekend. That figure (28) is the most by a HL team in any match this year.
• Freshman Gabriel Pewu was named Horizon League Offensive Player of the Week Aug. 29. He was one of just four freshmen in Division I to post five points on the season's first weekend.
• Pewu is not the only CSU rookie to have a multi-goal game on the young campaign as Lawrence Karpeh achieved the feat in the season opener.
• CSU has had balanced offensive production as five players have scored and eight have points. No other Horizon League team has eight players with points thus far this season.
• Cleveland State enters this week having allowed only seven goals in its past 13 matches dating back to last season.
• Eight of Cleveland State's nine goals this year have come in the second half. In fact, five of CSU's goals have come in the 78th minute or later.
• Sergio Manesio was named 2015 Horizon League Defender of the Year.
• A total of seven newcomers, five freshmen and two transfers, have competed for CSU this year. Six have started at least once and four have played in each of the first five games.
• Entering the week, CSU leads the Horizon League in both goals per game (1.80) and goals against average (0.96). 

UP NEXT:
 • CSU will open a four-game homestand with a pair of home games.
• After hosting its second Atlantic 10 foe of the year in Duquesne Tuesday, Sept. 20, the Vikings will welcome league foe Valparaiso Saturday, Sept. 24.