{"id":93661,"date":"2025-08-24T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93661\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:04:07","slug":"mens-soccer-set-to-host-new-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93661\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Soccer Set To Host New Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –\u00a0\u00a0The Providence College men’s soccer team (0-1-0) is scheduled to host the University of New Haven Chargers (1-0-0) on Monday, Aug. 25. The game is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+.
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\nGAME INFORMATION VS. NEW HAVEN
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\nLive Stats<\/a><\/p>\n

FRIARS FALL TO RUTGERS IN OPENER\u2026\u00a0The Providence College men’s soccer team lost to Rutgers, 1-0, on Thursday, Aug. 21 in Piscataway, N.J. With the loss, the Friars opened the 2025 season 0-1-0. Goalkeeper Ryan Carney<\/a> (Dunstable, Mass.) recorded six saves in the match.

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\nSCOUTING THE CHARGERS\u2026\u00a0The University of New Haven Chargers began their inaugural NCAA Division I season with a 2-1 victory over Monmouth on Thursday, Aug. 21. Before joining the Northeast Conference this year, the Chargers were NCAA Division II members and played in the Northeast 10. Last season, New Haven advanced to the NE10 Championship Game and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

\nCoach, Tommy Mattera, was named the New England Soccer Journal’s Division II Coach of the Year for 2024.

\nThe Chargers were picked to finish seventh in the NEC Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

\nThis will be the first meeting all-time between the Chargers and Friars.

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\nReturners

\nThe Friars return 15\u00a0players from last year’s roster, including\u00a0three multi-goal scorers.<\/p>\n

Two returners earned All-BIG EAST honors last season for the Friars. Senior forward\u00a0Bruno Rosa<\/a>\u00a0(Cascais, Portugal) earned All-BIG EAST Second Team. Senior midfielder\u00a0Diego Batista<\/a>\u00a0(Barcelos, Portugal) was named to the All-BIG EAST Third Team. Both Bruno and Batista were named to the 2025 Preseason All-BIG EAST Team on Aug. 19.

\nJunior midfielder\u00a0Pearse O’Brien<\/a>\u00a0(West Hartford, Conn.) enters his third season with the Friars. Throughout his career in Providence, he has solidified himself as a strong offensive threat, recording four goals and 11 assists. He was named to the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team in 2024.<\/p>\n

Sophomore defender\u00a0Vasco Teixeira<\/a>\u00a0(Arrentela, Portugal) returns for his second season with Friars after a strong freshman campaign. He started all 22 games for the Friars and recorded three assists. He earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honors on Oct. 28, 2024.<\/p>\n

Graduate forward\u00a0Pepe Lora<\/a>\u00a0(Madrid, Spain) enters his second season with the Friars. He appeared in 10 games last season, scoring three goals, including two game-winners. He earned a BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll selection on Aug. 26, 2024.<\/p>\n

Junior defender\u00a0Brandon Marshall<\/a>\u00a0(Wake Forest, N.C.) returns for his third season with the Friars. Marshall has appeared in 32 games, logging 2,324 minutes\u00a0for the Friars.<\/p>\n

Newcomers

\nThe Friars welcome six freshman and six\u00a0transfers to the 2025 roster.<\/p>\n

In his three collegiate seasons between Maryland and Loyola, senior\u00a0Caden Stafford<\/a>\u00a0(Cincinnatus, N.Y.) has appeared in 35 games. He has recorded eight goals and four assists and earned All-Patriot League Team (2024) and All-BIG Ten Freshman Team (2022) honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Graduate defender\u00a0Charlie Dickerson<\/a>\u00a0(Norwich, England) joins the Friars after two seasons at Bradley University. He started in all 33 matches and played a team-high 2,869 minutes, while anchoring the back line.\u00a0 He recorded three goals and two assists and earned MVC All-Conference Second Team honors (2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senior\u00a0Ian Abbey<\/a>\u00a0(Elmer, N.J.) played three seasons at Rutgers (53 games), before joining the Friars. He recorded nine goals and seven assists. He was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team in 2022.<\/p>\n

Senior midfielder\u00a0Cameron Yriondo<\/a>\u00a0(Sammamish, Wash.) joins the Friars from Virginia after appearing in nine games for the Cavaliers in 2024. Before Virginia, he played at Seattle Pacific, where he earned First-Team All-GNAC honors in 2023.

\nOther transfers include senior goalkeeper\u00a0Colin Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0(Safety Harbor, Fla.) from Virginia and graduate student\u00a0Fernando Garcia Gil<\/a>\u00a0(Spain).<\/p>\n

The incoming freshman class includes\u00a0Giuseppe Ciampa<\/a>\u00a0(Westwood, Mass.),\u00a0Michael Vella<\/a>\u00a0(Westwood, Mass.),\u00a0Angelo Ventrella<\/a>\u00a0(Toronto, Canada),\u00a0Jeremy Munoz<\/a>\u00a0(Rahway N.J.),\u00a0Mayowa Ajayi<\/a>\u00a0(Westbury N.J.) and\u00a0Connor Winters<\/a>\u00a0(Medford, N.J.).<\/p>\n

BIG EAST PRESEASON COACHES POLL\u2026\u00a0The Providence College men’s soccer team was picked to finish second in the BIG EAST East Division in 2025 earning 56 points. The Friars finished last season with a 5-1-2 mark in conference play and shared the East Division regular-season title with St. John’s.

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UP NEXT\u2026\u00a0The Friars stay at home to host the Boston College Eagles (1-0-0) on Friday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.

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\nFor more updates on the Providence men’s soccer program, follow the team on Twitter @PCFriarsMSoccer.<\/p>\n

-Go Friars!-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVIDENCE, R.I. –\u00a0\u00a0The Providence College men’s soccer team (0-1-0) is scheduled to host the University of New Haven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-93661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}