No. 8 Pitt Up Next On Spring Slate For Eagles

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College men's soccer team will head to Pittsburgh, Pa. on Saturday, March 13 to take on the Panthers. The game is slated for a 7 p.m. start and it will be live on ACCNX, which streams live on the ESPN App.

The Eagles opened up the spring season at No. 6 Wake Forest on Saturday, March 6, falling late, 3-2, to the Demon Deacons. The Panthers are coming off a 3-0 road loss to North Carolina.

Game 2 | Boston College at No. 8 Pitt
Saturday, March 13, 2021 | 7:00 p.m.
Ambrose Urbanic Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.

A WIN OVER PITT WOULD . . .
• Give the Eagles an overall record of 1-1-0.
• Give Bob Thompson his first career win as a head coach.
• Move the Eagles' record in the all-time series with Pitt to 13-5-2.

ABOUT PITT
• The Panthers are coming off a 3-0 loss at North Carolina on Friday, March 5 ... the team topped Duquesne, 1-0, in the spring opener on Feb. 27.
• Pitt finished the fall ACC slate as the runner-up after making the program's first appearance in the ACC Championship game ... the Panthers finished the fall slate at 7-1.
• Valentin Noel has a team-leading 18 points on eight goals and two assists ... Veljko Petkovic is second on the team with five goals and three assists for 13 points ... Valentin and Petkovic were named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List.
• Jay Vidovich is in his fifth year as head coach of the Panthers.

SERIES HISTORY VS PITT
• Saturday's meeting marks the 20th all-time meeting between Boston College and Pitt ... the Eagles hold an all-time series record of 12-5-2, including a mark of 6-2-2 on the road.
• BC and Pitt first met on Oct. 21, 1990, with the Eagles dropping the 1-0 home contest.
• Last year, the Panthers snapped a four-game losing streak in the series with a 2-0 win in Newton.

468 DAYS LATER. . .AT WAKE FOREST
• The Boston College men's soccer team finally returned to the pitch for a competition on Saturday, March 6 at Wake Forest ... it had been 468 days since the last game.
• The Demon Deacons jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute but Stefan Sigurdarson tied the game up in the 40th.
• Kristofer Konradsson then gave BC a 2-1 lead just three minutes into the second half ... Wake Forest, though, would score twice over the final five minutes for the come-from-behind 3-2 win.
• Christian Garner finished with three saves for the Eagles ... Sigurdarson's goal was the ninth of his career and third against Wake Forest.
• The game marked Bob Thompson's first as head coach of the Eagles.

2019 REWIND
• The Boston College men's soccer team finished the 2019 season with an overall mark of 9-6-3 and a record of 2-4-2 in ACC play.
• The Eagles earned the program's 15th-ever NCAA tournament appearance ... BC hosted Yale in the first round, earning a 3-0 win, and then fell at No. 4 Washington, 2-0, in the second round.
• The Eagles opened up the season with a 4-0-0 mark and then went on to record a six-game unbeaten streak later in the season.
• Stefan Sigurdarson led the team in scoring, putting up 20 points on eight goals and four assists ... he had three game-winning goals as a rookie.
• Fellow freshmen Michael Suski and Amos Shapiro-Thompson were second and third in scoring ... Suski had 12 points on four goals and four assists ... Shapiro-Thompson had nine points on four goals and one assist.
• David Longo and Victor Souza both played every single minute of the 2019 season, putting in 1,707 minutes on the pitch.
• Goalkeeper Christian Garner appeared in 12 games ... Garner went 5-3-3 with a 1.12 goals against average, .794 save percentage and four shutouts ... he ranked first in the ACC in saves per game (4.50) and second in saves (54).

THE 2021 CAPTAINS
• The Eagles are led by a quartet of student-athletes this year in Gregorio Barilla, Ian Buehler, Christian Garner and David Longo.
• Garner, a junior, appeared in 12 games with nine starts in 2019 ... the goalkeeper finished the season with 54 saves and a .794 save percentage.
• Buehler, a senior, has played in eight games for the Eagles, including a career-high six last season as a junior.
• Barilla, a two-time All-ACC Academic Honor Roll member, earned his debut as an Eagle last season at Virginia Tech as a sophomore.
• The redshirt-senior Longo made an immediate impact since transferring to the Heights ahead of the 2018 season and has gone on to start all 34 of BC's contests over the last two season.

BC DEBUTS
• In BC's first game of the spring at Wake Forest on March 6, Jorge Dickens and Nacho Dominguez made their collegiate debuts.
• Dickens started and played 32 minutes while Dominguez played 58 minutes off the bench.
• That Wake Forest match also marked head coach Bob Thompson's first game at the helm of the Eagles.

No. 8 Pitt Up Next On Spring Slate For Eagles

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Players Mentioned

Gregorio Barilla

Ian Buehler

Jorge Dickens

Nacho Dominguez

Christian Garner

Kristofer Konradsson

David Longo

Amos Shapiro-Thompson

Stefan Sigurdarson

Victor Souza

Michael Suski