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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – In a battle of two of the eight unbeaten teams left in college soccer, No. 11 Virginia (5-0-2) will host Wright State (8-0-1) at Klöckner Stadium on Tuesday (Oct. 2). The match is slated for a 7 p.m. start and will air live on ACC Network Extra.
 
Game Coverage: ACC Network Extra is available to authenticated subscribers of ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. will be available on VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get in-game updates on the match’s live stats feed on VirginiaSports.com and on the men’s soccer official twitter page (@UVAMenSoccer).
 
TICKETS AVAILABLE
Fans can purchase tickets at a discounted rate in advance by going online to VirginiaSports.com/Tickets. For all regular season home games, available reserved single-game tickets can be purchased in advance for $8 online or via mobile devices. Tickets are $10 at the sport-specific ticket office on game day. General admission single-game tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the sport-specific ticket office locations on game day.
 
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Virginia Athletics has a clear bag policy and entrance procedures in effect for Klöckner Stadium this season. Please review FAQs here: https://virginiasports.com/sports/2018/5/22/facilities-clear-bag-Disharoon-Klockner.aspx
 
FOR STARTERS
• Virginia is the nation’s top defense, allowing 0.13 goals per game while Wright State is the country’s second-best scoring offense, averaging 3.00 goals per game.
• The Cavaliers will play at home for the first time since Sept. 18 and will play five of the next six games at Klöckner Stadium.
• Wright State has been held without a goal once this season, a 0-0 draw at Bowling Green on Aug. 31.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• Virginia and Wright State have only once before, a 3-2 Cavalier victory on Oct. 16, 2012.
• All five of the game’s goals came in the first 45 minutes including Eric Bird’s eventual game-winner in the 40th minute.
• Wright State is the only current Horizon League member that Virginia has ever squared off against.
 
GETTING DEFENSIVE
• Virginia has not allowed a goal in 469 consecutive minutes.
• The Cavaliers have blanked four-straight opponents, including ACC foes Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
• Virginia is the only team in the country that has not allowed multiple goals this season. Virginia and Stanford (2 goals allowed) are the only two teams that have allowed three or less.
• The six total shutouts for Virginia are the most in the ACC and four-most in the country. The Cavaliers lead the country in shutout percentage (.857).
 
HISTORIC DEFENSIVE START
• In its 75 years of soccer, Virginia has allowed one goal through the first seven once, in 1985.
• The 1985 squad didn’t allow its second goal of the season until the eighth game of the year.
• Virginia has shut out four-straight opponents for the first time since 2016, when it blanked five-straight at the latter end of the 2016 season.  
 
LAST LINE OF DEFENSE
• Goalkeeper Colin Shutler leads the country in goals against average (.013), save percentage (.966) and shutout percentage (.857)
• He made four saves in his fourth consecutive shutout on Friday night at Pitt.
• Shutler has made four or more saves in four of the nine games this season, including a career-high eight against Virginia Tech on Sept. 7.
 
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALL
 • Freshman Cabrel Happi Kamseu scored his third goal in four games last Friday at Pitt. It marked the second game-winner of the season.
• Classmate Aboubacar Keita tallied his first career score, putting Virginia up 2-0 in the 63rd minute. He headed in a Joe Bell corner kick service, Bell’s third-straight game with an assist.
• Virginia has registered three-straight mulit-goal games for the second consecutive season. The Cavaliers haven’t strung together four-straight multi-goal games since the 2013 season.
• Of the five Cavalier goal scorers this season, four have scored their first goal in a UVA uniform.
• Nathaniel Crofts, who has started 28-straight games for the Cavaliers, recorded an assist on the game-winner at Pitt. All five of his points (2g, 1a) this season have come in ACC play.
 
NOTING WRIGHT STATE
• The Raiders hired former player, assistant coach and associate head coach, Jake Slemker to lead the program prior to the 2018 season. So far he is unbeaten through his first nine games as a head coach.
• The potent Raider offense is paced by junior Alec Philippe who has nine goals, tied for the sixth most in the country. Philippe has five goals in his last three games including his first career hat trick on Sept. 22 against Cleveland State.
• Midfielder Jackson Dietrich is averaging an assist a game and has a total of nine on the year (one shy of the Northern Kentucky’s Alex Greive for the national lead).
• In Monday’s TopDrawerSoccer.com national rankings, Wright State moved up to No. 11 after appearing at No. 15 last week.