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The UNO Maverick men's soccer team will look to pick up its second road result of the season against a Summit League school on Sunday when it plays at Oral Roberts at 2 p.m., in Tulsa, Okla. The Mavs picked up their only win of the season in their opening match at UMKC, the defending Summit League champion. Since then, UNO has not scored a goal in five straight losses, although the last two matches were 2-0 decisions where the Mavs were outshot by just a combined 27-20 margin.

Scouting the Competition: Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
Head Coach: Steve Hayes (14th season)    
2011 Record: 2-5-0 (through Sept. 29)
Last Game: vs. IPFW (9/30/11)    
Website: orugoldeneagles.com

Oral Roberts enters the weekend with a 2-5-0 record coming off a 6-1 loss to Missouri State on Tuesday. The Golden Eagles upset preseason Summit League co-favorite Oakland on Sept. 23, though, 2-1. The Golden Eagles feature a balanced scoring attack. John David James is the only player with two goals, while seven other Golden Eagles have scored on the season. Forward Jarrett Hamilton was an All-Summit First-Team selection last season.

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.

Steve Hayes is in his 14th season as the head coach of Oral Roberts. Hayes enters the weekend with a 97-119-22 record at ORU. He graduated from George Mason in 1988.

Next Up for the Mavs...
The Mavs travel to Memphis to face the Tigers at 6 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 11. UNO then returns home to play its last home game of the year on Friday, Oct. 14, against Fort Hays State at the UNO Soccer Field.
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