PORTLAND PILOTS (7-5-1, 1-2-0 WCC)
Week 10: vs. Gonzaga / San Francisco
 
Gonzaga Bulldogs (3-8-1, 2-1-0 WCC)
Day: Wednesday
Date: Oct. 30, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Portland, Ore.
Pitch: Merlo Field
Online: Video I Stats
 
POR vs. GU
Overall Series: 27-12-6
H: 14-5-2  •  A: 12-7-4  •  N: 1-0-0
Last: POR 3, @GU 2 (10/6/2018)
 
San Francisco Dons (2-10-1, 0-3-0 WCC)
Day: Saturday
Date: Nov. 2, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Portland, Ore.
Pitch: Merlo Field
Online: Video I Stats
 
POR vs. USF
Overall Series: 20-24-4
H: 12-8-0  •  A: 8-13-4  •  N: 0-3-0
Last: @USF 2, POR 1 (10/26/2018)
 
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots play their final home games of the regular season this week at Merlo Field when they host Gonzaga and San Francisco in a pair of West Coast Conference matches.
• First the Gonzaga Bulldogs come to The Bluff on Wednesday night for a 7 p.m. match.
• Saturday features a contest with the San Francisco Dons, and that game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
• Saturday is also senior day for the Pilots, and Portland's six seniors will be honored with a pregame ceremony.
• Links for live streams and live stats can be found at PortlandPilots.com.
 
PROMOTIONS/TICKETS
• In addition to Senior Day on Saturday, the match with the Dons will feature a Brewfest, which will begin at 4 p.m. and take place in the main Merlo Field concourse.
• For information on the Brewfest and other fan promotions, please visit PortlandPilots.com/Promotions.
• Fans can also visit PortlandPilots.com/Tickets or call/text 503-943-GoUP for information on tickets for this week and every Pilot home game.
 
LAST WEEK
• The Pilots won both their games at home last week, defeating the Cal Bears 2-1 on Tuesday night before recording a 2-0 shutout over the Santa Clara Broncos on Saturday.
• Against the Bears, the Pilots jumped ahead 2-0 with goals from Jacobo Reyes and Greg Tracey before the Bears pulled one back in the second half.
• Reyes, who also assisted on the Tracey goal, scored his goal on a free kick, which he bent inside the top right corner of the frame from 20 yards out.
• Against the Broncos, freshmen Delentz Pierre and Josh Ogudugu both found the back of the net, and keeper Nico Campuzano registered his third clean sheet of the year.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS...
• The Pilots are the top defensive team in the WCC, allowing a conference-low 0.746 goals per game, which ranks 15th nationally.
• Portland is also tops in the league and No. 14 in the country with a .811 save percentage.
• Portland has allowed only 10 goals this year, which is tied with Saint Mary's for the fewest in the WCC.
• Junior goalkeeper Nico Campuzano ranks 19th in the nation with a .805 save percentage, and he's 27th in GAA (0.85).
• Junior Luke Hendel was named the WCC Player of the Week on Oct. 6 after registering the game-winner during a 2-1 victory over UC Riverside (Oct. 4) at Merlo Field; Hendel also earned Top Drawer Soccer's Team of the Week Honorable Mention recognition.
• Earlier this season Hendel landed on the TDS Team of the Week after scoring both of Portland's game-winners against George Washington (Sept. 6) and Davidson (Sept. 8).
• Freshman Delentz Pierre became the second Pilot this season to land on the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week after scoring his first career goal and helping secure a 3-1 win over CSUN (Sept. 20).
• The six goals scored by the Pilots during a 6-0 win over Davidson on Sept. 8 were the most scored by a Portland team since 2002 when they also won by a 6-0 margin (vs. DePaul); six different Pilots accounted for each of the six goals.
• Offensively, the Pilots have out-scored their opponents 20-10, and 11 different players have scored a goal.
• The Pilots have 19 assists on their 20 goals.
• For the second straight season, senior midfielder Rey Ortiz was named to the Preseason Watch List for the MAC Hermann Trophy, which is awarded annually to the best collegiate player in the nation.
• Ortiz, who collected three goals and three assists in limited action as a junior, was also named to the All-West Coast Conference Preseason Team, as was senior midfielder Gio Magana-Rivera.
• Portland's 2019 recruiting class was ranked ninth in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer; the 10 newcomers are the program's third straight top-10 recruiting class.
• The Pilots received a first-place vote and were selected to finish second in the WCC this season by the league's eight head coaches.
 
THE OPPONENTS
• The Gonzaga Bulldogs have won two straight WCC games, topping USF at home and USD on the road, both by a 2-1 margin.
• Gonzaga has been outscored 21-12 and they have one shutout.
• Demetrius Kigeya and Theo O'Malley each have a team-best three goals, while goalkeeper Johan Garibay has a GAA of 1.72 and a .672 save percentage.
• Paul Meehan is in his second season as head coach at GU.
• The San Francisco Dons have lost four straight.
• The Dons have allowed 32 goals this season and have scored eight.
• Shayan Charalaghi, Ashish Chattha, and Jonah Van Der Werf each have two goals, and keeper Ruben Stuiver ranks 10th nationally in saves per game (5.27).
• Former Portland assistant coach Leonard Griffin is in his first season at the helm of the Dons; Griffin spent the past three years on the UP staff, helping guide the Pilots to the 2016 WCC title and a pair of NCAA tournaments.
 
THE STAFF
• Head coach Nick Carlin-Voigt is in his fourth year at the helm of the Pilots.
• In his first year on The Bluff he led Portland to an improbable turn-around en route to the 2016 WCC title and an NCAA Playoff berth.
• It was the program's first WCC Championship since 2002, and it was their first trip to the NCAA postseason since 2009.
• In 2016 Carlin-Voigt became the program's first WCC Coach of the Year since Clive Charles in 2002.
• Carlin-Voigt, who came to The Bluff from UCLA in 2016, was named one of the Top 10 American Coaches under 40 by Top Drawer Soccer in 2017.
• Joining Carlin-Voigt on the staff are first-year assistant coaches Ben Zemanski and Austin Nyquist.
• Zemanski entered the coaching ranks after a lengthy MLS career, which featured a five-year stint and an MLS Cup with the Portland Timbers.
• Nyquist was previously the Pilots' director of performance analysis.
• Assistant coach Emerson De Oliveira is in his fourth year with the Pilots, and he was recently elevated to the program's director of goalkeeping.