Men's Soccer Travels to No. 16 Penn State

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PHILADELPHIA – Temple men's soccer travels to State College, Pa. to face No. 16 Penn State on Friday at 7:00 p.m. The Owls will look for their second win of the 2014 season after splitting a pair of home games last weekend.

Check out the links above for live stats, game notes, and a video weekend preview with head coach David MacWilliams and senior Jonah Williams.

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Temple is 1-1 after opening the 2014 season at home where the Owls beat Sacramento State 3-0 after dropping the season opener to Drexel 1-0 in overtime.
Forward Olli Tynkkynen earned the first American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week of the season after he scored his first two collegiate goals in the team's 3-0 win against Sacramento State.
Redshirt-senior defender Jonah Williams garnered the American Athletic Conference Defender of the Week after helping the defense allow only one goal in two games this past weekend, not allowing a single shot on goal for Sacramento State, and assisting on a goal.
Junior midfielder/forward Jared Martinelli, sophomore defender Robert Sagel and senior goalkeeper Dan Scheck were selected to the Preseason All-American Athletic Conference Team. Scheck was voted by the coaches as the Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year.
Four freshmen have started both games for Temple: Tynkkynen, midfielder Miguel Polley, midfielder Felipe Liborio and midfielder Brendon Creed.
Temple was predicted to finish fifth in the conference by the preseason coaches' poll.
Since the start of 2013, Scheck has allowed only 14 goals. He is the all-time career goals against average leader (0.60) and ranks tied for fourth in career wins (15).
No. 16 Penn State comes into the game with a 2-0-0 record after defeating Oakland 1-0 and St. John's 3-0 at home.
Penn State leads the all-time series 39-18-8. The Owls won the last game in the series 2-0 on September 9th, 1997.
The Owls start a four-game road trip at State College, Pa. and won't return home until Sept. 21 for a Philadelphia Soccer Six match against Penn. Temple will head to Duke (Sept. 9), La Salle (Sept. 13) and Fordham (9/17).
Temple is coming off 10-4-4, 3-1-4 season where they finished fourth in the conference and were named the Philadelphia Soccer Six Champions.
Sagel and Martinelli were selected to the 2013 all-conference second teams. Sagel was put on the all-freshmen team.

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