JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 16, 2023) – Before what promises to be a dramatic finale to Southern Conference play over the last 180 minutes of the regular season, ETSU men's soccer has some family business to attend to. 
  
David Lilly and the Buccaneers will honor 12 seniors on Tuesday at a midweek non-conference clash with the Winthrop Eagles. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Summers-Taylor Stadium. 
 
THE MATCHUP  
ETSU (6-5-2) vs. WINTHROP (4-6-2) 
Tuesday, October 17 | 7 p.m. | Summers-Taylor Stadium | ESPN+ | Live Stats 
  
ABOUT THE BUCS  
·       The Bucs have won three straight games after a 3-0 victory over VMI in Lexington, Virginia, on Saturday. Sebastian Reventlow-Mourier and Tarik Pannholzer scored exactly one minute apart inside the first quarter of an hour, and Zayd Idlibi added a spectacular bicycle kick off a rebound for his first career goal in the second half.
·       ETSU honors 12 seniors on Tuesday night: Cameron Carroll, Dailyn Crawley, Israel Garcia-Perez, Henrik Guenther, Cole Hunter, David Kovacic, Lucas Lightner, Pannholzer, Jack Perry, Andrew Prescott, Gabriel Ramos, and Kieran Richards. 
·       Pannholzer enters senior night with 21 goals, nine assists, and 51 career points. He is tied for third in school history in goals, ranks ninth in assists, and is fifth in points. He needs two goals to move into a tie for second on the ETSU goal-scoring charts with Fletcher Ekern. 
·       Richards has 20 goals, tying for fifth-most in ETSU history with Aaron Schoenfeld. His 12 assists are tied with Blaike Woodruff for the fourth-most at ETSU, and his 52 points also rank fourth. Richards needs one goal or two assists to move into second all-time. 
·       Ramos is tied with Alesi Osorio for ninth in ETSU history with 10 goals, tied with Pannholzer for ninth in assists, and tied with Itode Fubara for ninth in points. 
·       Hunter enters senior night as the career leader at ETSU in goals against average (0.770), ranks second in career save percentage (.780) and is tied for third in career shutouts (12). Hunter currently ranks sixth in the nation in goals against average, seventh in save percentage. 
  
ABOUT WINTHROP  
·       The Eagles are unbeaten in their last three after a 2-1 win at Presbyterian on Saturday night. Nick Guido scored his second goal of the year in the 85th minute to get the Eagles out of Clinton with three points.  
·       Picked seventh in the Big South preseason poll, Winthrop has been a surprise, sitting second in the conference at 3-0-2, two points back of High Point. The two teams meet in the season finale on November 1. 
·       Ricardo Ferreira is the top goal scorer in the Big South with six and ranks 59th in the nation in total goals and goals per game (0.50). 
·       Ferreira's twin brother, Rodrigo, leads the Eagles with three assists. He scored his first goal of the season in the 50th minute against Longwood last Wednesday. 
 
SERIES HISTORY 
·       This is the fifth meeting between ETSU and Winthrop. The Buccaneers are 1-2-1 against the Eagles. ETSU is 1-0-1 against Winthrop at Summers-Taylor Stadium. 
·       The last meeting between the two teams was on September 23, 2014, a 4-2 Winthrop victory at Eagle Field in Rock Hill, South Carolina. 
·       ETSU's only win against Winthrop was the first-ever meeting between the two teams on September 15, 2010, when ETSU all-time leading scorer David Geno scored his first collegiate goal in the fourth minute and Schoenfeld scored in the 90th to seal a 2-0 victory. 
 
UP NEXT  
The Bucs go on the road for a game with SoCon title implications against the Furman Paladins on Saturday at 7 p.m. 
 
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