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Virginia Tech (5-5-1, 0-3-1 ACC) vs. Longwood (3-9-1, 2-6-1 Big South)
Oct. 9 • 7:00 p.m.
Athletics Complex • Farmville, Va.
Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/longwood/msoc/scoreboard.aspx

SCOUTING LONGWOOD
• Longwood is coming off of a 1-0 loss at George Mason on Oct. 5. Taylor Morgan recorded the eventual game-winner in the 22nd minute as the Patriots outshot the Lancers 17-0.
• The Lancers scoring attack is led by Jonathan Kukapa, Devin Pierce and Anthony Ugori who each have two goals on the year.
• Kukapa also leads the team in both assists (3) and points (7).
• Longwood has been shutout in four of its last five games and six times overall this season.
• The Lancers are 1-4-1 at home this season, recording the lone win in a 3-2 contest against VMI.
• Longwood has scored four goals in six home matches.

SERIES HISTORY
• Tech has a one-game lead in the all-time series, holding a 4-3-1 record.
• Since 2000, each side has won two games in the series.
• The Hokies won last season’s contest 1-0 behind a goal from Drew Ranahan just over a minute into the second half. The defender headed in a cross from a corner kick by Ben Strong. Both sides amassed 14 shots with Tech putting six on frame compared to the Lancers’ two.
• The last match between the two in Farmville, Va., was on Oct. 5, 2010. Devin Pierce tallied the game-winner in the 70th minute in a 1-0 win for Longwood.

HOKIES IN YOUR HOME
For fans looking to catch a game live, but can’t attend, nine Hokie matches will broadcast live either online or on TV throughout the 2012 season.
• Hokies All-Access (http://www.hokiesports.com/allaccess)
• Aug. 26 vs. Richmond, 2:30 p.m.
• Sept. 14 vs. Boston College, 7:00 p.m.
• Sept. 28 vs. Wake Forest, 7:00 p.m.
• Oct 23 vs. Radford, 7:00 p.m.
• ESPN3
• Sept. 8 at North Carolina, 7:00 p.m.
• Now. 1 at Clemson, 7:00 p.m.
• ACCDN on YouTube
• Sept. 21 at Maryland, 7:30 p.m.
• Oct. 12 vs. NC State, 7:00 p.m.
• RSN
• Oct. 19 at Virginia, 6:30 p.m.

JUST GIVE THEM THE LEAD
• In all four Hokies wins this season, they’ve scored first.
• Three of the five games resulted in shutouts.
• The earliest that the Hokies have scored this season is the 14:46 mark when Hunter Jecius connected on a header from a Ben Strong corner kick against NJIT.

HOKIE WALL
• Goalkeeper Kyle Renfro is right where he left off last year. After leading the ACC with 100 saves in 2011, the junior currently leads the conference in saves (53) and saves per game (4.82).
• His nine saves in a 1-1 draw versus Boston College on Sept. 14 tied his career high which was set on Sept. 10, 2011 in a 1-0 double-overtime win over No. 1 North Carolina.
• The nine saves is a game-high amongst ACC keepers this season.
• At No. 1 Maryland on Sept. 21, Renfro was one save shy of his high, recording eight stops against a relentless Terrapin attack.
• His seven career shutouts is three away from cracking the school’s top five.

GOAL SCORING FRESHMEN
• Freshmen have accounted for six of the team’s 13 goals with Daniel Lauretano and Connor Pompilio recording two a piece.
•Pompilio has taken two shots this season, finding the back of the net on both occasions. His second goal was a game-winner against NJIT.
• Hunter Jecius has two shots on the year, recording his first goal is a Hokie on his second attempt.

OFFENSIVE HOKIES
• Seven Hokies have combined to score the team's 13 goals.
• David Clemens leads the team with five goals which is tied for third in the ACC, while his 10 points is tied for seventh-most in the league.
• Freshmen Daniel Lauretano and Connor Pompilio have each tallied a pair of goals with each recording a game-winner.
• Lauretano tallied his first collegiate goal in the season opener against SIU-Edwardsville.
• Jed Prater notched his first goal of the season, and third of his career, after converting a penalty kick in a 1-0 game versus Temple.
• Drew Hartell and Connor Pompilio tallied their first goals of the season and first of their careers on Sept. 2 versus St. Bonaventure as Clemens and Lauretano scored their second goals of the year in the 4-0 victory.
• The last time Tech defeated a team by four goals or more was nearly two years ago in a 7-2 win over Howard on Sept. 14, 2010.
• After coming in as a substitute in the first game, Lauretano recorded his first goal as a Hokie against SIU-Edwardsville. Three starts later, the freshmen tallied his second goal on the year, the game-winner against St. Bonaventure.
• Six games into his final season, midfielder David Fiorello tallied the first goal of his career in dramatic fashion with a 35-yard high-arching shot that looped over the BC keeper Justin Luthy for a game-tying goal in the 83rd minute while playing his team was playing a man down.
• On Sept. 25 against VMI, Clemens had a breakout game, notching his first-career hat trick in a 3-1 win. He is only the third ACC player to record a hat trick this season.
• His seven shots versus VMI and St. Bonaventure tied his career high for a single game. It is the third time in his career that he has recorded seven shots and it the most shots in a game for any ACC player this season.

HOLDING OPPONENTS IN CHECK
• Despite allowing 166 shots through 11 games, Tech’s defense has allowed 17 shots to find the back of the net.
• Opponents have tallied 13 or more shots against Tech in eight of the team’s 11 matches.
• Against one of the country’s most potent attacks, the Hokies held No. 1 Maryland to two goals on Sept. 21. To that point, it marked only the second time that Maryland had been held to less than three goals.

MULTIPLE #1’s
• For the second-straight season, Tech faced multiple top-ranked opponents.
• Last year, the Hokies upset North Carolina 1-0 in double overtime before falling to Maryland two weeks later, 2-0. Both matches were played at Thompson Field.
• This season, Tech hit the road for both matches as the squad fell 2-0 to North Carolina and Maryland.

WHO NEEDS TO PLAY AT FULL STRENGTH
• The Hokies had a gutsy performance in a 1-1 draw against Boston College on Sept. 14. After going down a goal in the 46th minute, Tech was forced to play down a man after a red card was issued to DeVante DuBose. The Hokies fought back to tie the game on an 83rd minute goal by captain David Fiorello.
• After going down a man, Tech equaled its first half shot total of three during the final 40 minutes of regulation before adding another three during the 20 minutes of extra time.
• During the final 60 minutes of play, Boston College took 10 shots, two less than the first 50 minutes.

MINUTE MEN
• David Clemens, David Fiorello, Jed Prater, Drew Ranahan, Kyle Renfro and Ben Strong have each eclipsed the 900-minute mark this season for the Hokies through 11 games.
• Fiorello is the lone Hokie to eclipse 1,000 minutes this season after playing every minute thus far (1,010).
• Prater, Ranahan, Renfro and Strong led Tech in minutes logged a season ago. The four amassed 6,969 minutes in 19 games.

LEARNING ON THE FLY
• Tech has 16 players this season who have been in the program for less than two years. With David Fiorello being the lone senior on the 2012 squad, and only seven upperclassmen in all.
• Eight underclassmen have logged more than 350 minutes this season with Hunter Byrnes, Hunter Jecius, Daniel Lauretano, Drew Ranahan and Ben Strong each totaling more than 600 minutes played.
• Redshirt sophomore Drew Ranahan leads all underclassmen with 978 minutes played while Daniel Lauretano leads all freshmen with 704 minutes.

ACC TEST
• The Hokies finished off a grueling conference test from Sept. 8-28 in which the team took on four of the top teams in the ACC according to the NSCAA rankings.
• Tech opened the ACC season with 2-0 defeat at No. 1 North Carolina on Sept. 8. The Hokies followed that up with a 1-1 double overtime draw against Boston College at Thompson Field on Sept. 14. The Eagles were receiving votes at the time after opening the season ranked No. 14.
• On Sept. 21, the Hokies fell 2-0 to No. 1 Maryland. A week later, Tech was defeated 4-0 at home by No. 16 Wake Forest.

AMONG THE BEST
• The Atlantic Coast Conference has traditionally been one of the nation’s top conferences in men’s soccer and this year is no different. Currently three schools (North Carolina, Maryland and Wake Forest) are ranked in the NSCAA’s top 15, which is the second-most of any conference behind the BIG EAST.
• The league began the season with three teams ranked in the NSCAA’s top 25 preseason poll which was second behind the BIG EAST’s four.

445:02
• The Hokies kept their opposition from finding the net for a total of 445:02 minutes during the first five games of the season.
• All five goals allowed during this time were surrendered during two stretches that total less than five minutes. The Hokies allowed SIUE to score three goals in span of three minutes and eight seconds in the season opener while North Carolina’s Martin Murphy scored twice one minute and 52 seconds.

CAPTAINS
• Senior David Fiorello will finish out his Tech career as a three-time team captain for the Hokies, while junior Jed Prater will join him for his first time in the role.

DON’T I KNOW YOU
• The center back pairing of DeVante DuBose and Drew Ranahan played high school soccer at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif.
• Redshirt freshmen Hunter Byrnes and Drew Hartell were high school teammates at F.W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach. They also both played club soccer for Beach FC.
• Freshmen Kai Marshall and Shane Rose played for Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Va., while also playing club soccer for SOCA Lightning.
• Despite going to high schools more than 300 miles apart, freshmen Hunter Jecius and Deven Mason played club soccer together for New Mexico Rush Nike Argonauts ‘94 which is located in Albuquerque, N.M.
• Freshmen Daniel Lauretano and Carter Brown played club soccer together for Richmond Kickers Academy.

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