Men's Soccer Travels to Duke

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PHILADELPHIA – Temple men's soccer travels to Durham, N.C. to face Duke on Tuesday 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 1-2 to open the 2014 season. The Owls lost to Drexel and beat Sacramento State 3-0 at home to open the season and lost to Penn State 1-0 last Friday.
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 two weekends ago, 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 all three 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).
Duke comes into the game with a 1-1-1 record. The Blue Devils lost their most recent game at American Athletic Conference member SMU 3-1 last Friday.
Duke was picked to finish fourth in the Coastal Division of the ACC. Sean Davis was voted to College Soccer New's Preseason All-America Third Team.
Duke leads the all-time series 2-0-0. The Blue Devils claimed victories in 2004 and 2005 over the Owls.
The Owls are currently in a four game road trip and won't return home until Sept. 21 for a Philadelphia Soccer Six match against Penn. The road trip began at Penn State last Friday, and Temple will head to La Salle (Sept. 13) and Fordham (9/17) next.
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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