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The UNO Maverick men's soccer team travels to Edwardsville, Ill., on Tuesday to take on SIU Edwardsville at 7 p.m., at Korte Stadium. It marks the second game of the Mavs' four-game road stretch to end the season. UNO coach
Jason Mims and SIUE coach Kevin Kalish played together collegiately at Saint Louis from 1997-98. Live stats and a free live webcast will be available at OMavs.com.
Scouting the Competition: SIU Edwardsville Cougars
Head Coach: Kevin Kalish (4th season)
2011 Record: 7-6-3 (1-3-1 MVC)
Last Game: L, 0-1 vs. Creighton (Oct. 22)
Website: siuecougars.com
The Cougars enter the match with a 7-6-3 overall record and are in sixth place in the Missouri Valley Conference with a 1-3-1 record. SIUE is coming off a 1-0 loss at home to Creighton on Saturday. Senior Jack Twellman has a team-leading nine goals and 20 points on the season. Freshman Matt Polster is second in points with 10 (2g, 6a). Scott Meyer has played every minute in goal for the Cougars, posting three shutouts and saving 78 percent of the shots he's faced. The Cougars have lost three straight MVC games to Bradley, Drake and Creighton.
The Coaches
Jason Mims enters his first season as the head coach of the UNO men's soccer program in 2011. Mims comes to Omaha from Penn State, where he was the first assistant for the Nittany Lions in 2010. Prior to that, Mims spent nine years as an assistant coach at Creighton, helping then-head coach Bob Warming, now the head coach at Penn State, create the Bluejays' program from the ground up. Mims helped lead Creighton to eight straight NCAA tournament appearances and six Missouri Valley Conference Championships. He was a two-time finalist for the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year award, the 2008 MVC Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2008 NSCAA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Mims recruited 10 All-Americans, eight conference players of the year, 21 all-region honorees and 50 all-conference picks at Creighton. He also coached club soccer for six years while in Omaha, winning the Nebraska State Cup each season and qualifying for the national tournament once. In 2007, he was an NSCAA National Youth Coach of the Year finalist and the region coach of the year. A native of Memphis, Tenn., Mims played soccer collegiately at Saint Louis University, where he was a two-time All-Conference USA selection and an NSCAA All-Midwest Region pick in 1997. Mims graduated from Saint Louis in 1999.
Kevin Kalish is in his fourth season as the head coach of SIUE. Kalish enters the match with a 27-28-11 record at SIUE. He played with Mims at Saint Louis and graduated in 1999.
Last Time Out
CHICAGO - The UNO men's soccer team was defeated 2-0 by UIC on Sunday, Oct. 16 at Flames Field. The Mavericks fell to 1-9 on the season, while UIC improved to 7-3-3.
Eric Frazier notched the first goal for the Flames in the 15th minute. Frazier tucked the ball away on a low shot following a cross from Nermin Dautovic.
Ivan Stanisavljevic added his eighth goal of the season in the 69th minute on a penalty kick to cap the scoring.
UIC outshot UNO on goal, 12-1.
Joe Marinkovich had the Mavs' lone shot on goal.
Sam Noddle hit a header over the crossbar in the 64th minute for the Mavs. Noddle finished with a team-high two shots.
Josh Christensen made 10 saves for UNO.
Next Up for the Mavs
The Mavs finish out the season with a road trip to Florida. On Nov. 4, UNO faces Jacksonville at 6 p.m. (CT). Then on Nov. 5, the Mavericks end their inaugural season at Stetson in DeLand, Fla., at 6 p.m. (CT).
