DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (Oct. 26, 2021) – The Mercy College men's soccer team hosts ECC foe Daemen for Senior Day on Saturday, October 30th at 2 p.m.

Who, When and Where

Date/Time: Saturday, October 30th 2 p.m.

Records: Mercy (7-4-2, 3-2-2 ECC), Daemen (4-9, 2-5 ECC)

Location: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Last Meeting

Mercy earned a 3-1 win over Daemen on September 28, 2019.

Scouting the Mavericks

Mercy will honor seniors Felipe Baeza, Rainiero Salas, Archie Jones and Tormod Simonsen in a ceremony prior to the game. The Mavericks are coming off a 4-2 win over Queens on Friday. Mercy was led by graduate student Pau Echarri who had two goals and an assist. Jones had a goal and an assist and junior Matthias Kuhn had a goal. Salas and junior Vasco Baptista added assists and freshman Eirik Elvestad had four saves. Baeza was named ECC Defensive Player of the Week and Echarri was tabbed Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. The Mavericks are 7-0 all-time against Daemen dating back to 2013. Kuhn, a one-time ECC Defensive Player of the Week, has a team-high 13 points on a team-high six goals with one assist. Jones is third on the team with 11 points on the year by way of four goals and three assists. Graduate student Pau Echarri has five goals, two assists and 12 points. Echarri was named ECC Rookie of the Week on October 4th. Salas has two goals and two assists on the year and was tabbed to the ECC Honor Roll on September 13th. Senior Javier Mangado has a goal and an assist and junior David Breitenbach has a team-high three assists on the year. Senior Abraham Lopez scored the game-winning goal in Mercy's win over Saint Rose on September 15th and junior Marco Passera has one goal on the year. Freshman Martin Penafiel has a goal and two assists on the year and senior Tormod Simonsen has one assist. Graduate student Felipe Baeza is 3-3-1 in goal for the Mavericks with 28 saves and a .737 save percentage in seven starts. Freshman Eirik Elvestad is 4-1-1 in goal with four shutouts, 13 saves and a .813 save percentage and was named ECC Rookie of the Week last week.

The Mavericks are looking to defend their ECC Championship from 2019 and look to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year. In 2019, Mercy went 14-4-3 and won their first ECC Tournament Championship since 2004. The Mavericks were picked first in the ECC Preseason Coaches' Poll and Kuhn was named Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.

Leading the returners is Kuhn who was named Third Team All-ECC as a freshman. Jones, Saul Melendez Kevin Aguilar, Salas, Vasco Baptista, Hamza Khan and David Sassano return from the team in 2019. Jones had four goals and five assists in 2019 and Salas had a goal and two assists. Head Coach Pedro Velazquez also welcomes nine transfers that have joined the team over the last two years. Simonsen, Mangado and Lopez and juniors Benjamin Van Buren, Passera, Jens Ovreseth, Breitenbach and Isaí Carrillo all joined the team during the 2020-21 academic year and Baeza transferred in for this year. Simonsen transferred from Seton Hill University where he had a goal and an assist in 11 starts in 2019. Mangado transfers from Wheeling University where he had a goal and two assists in 2019 in 14 starts. Lopez joins the team from Harding University where he made five starts and played in 20 games in two years. Van Buren transfers in from Division I USC Upstate where he started 12 games in 2019. Passera played at Spring Hill College in 2019 where he had an assist in 13 games and Ovreseth comes from Davis & Elkins College where he had two goals and four assists in 2019. Breitenbach posted six goals and three assists in 2019 for Barton College prior to joining Mercy. Carrillo joins the team from Notre Dame de Namur University where he started 16 games in 2019 with one assist. Baeza joins the team in 2021 from Division I USC Upstate where he went 5-4-2 in goal with 35 saves in 2020-21.

Scouting the Wildcats

Daemen is coming off a 1-0 win over Staten Island that snapped a two-game losing streak. The Wildcats were picked ninth in the ECC Coaches' Poll after going 0-17 in 2019. Daemen has been led by junior Christian Lewin who has a team-high three goals. Senior Art Djengue Bille also has a team-high six points on two goals and two assists and junior Trey Buscaglia and junior Pontus Lundin both have five points on two goals and one assist. Senior Marcos Lerma is 4-8 in goal with 57 saves, a .760 save percentage, 1.49 goals against average and two shutouts.

Next Game

Mercy resumes action on Thursday, November 4th when they host Dominican at 3 p.m.