GRANVILLE, Ohio (October 14, 2023) – Four different players scored a goal to help the Denison University men's soccer team to a 4-0 victory over Wittenberg University on Senior Day on a wet and rainy Saturday night.

Prior to the match, Denison recognized its two seniors, Chris Giglio and Rohan Tripathy, for their time and dedication to the DU men's soccer program over the last four years. These seniors have to date won 31 matches in their time on campus, including winning 12 matches and capturing the NCAC Tournament Championship in 2021. That season, the Big Red advanced to play in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009. In each of the last two seasons, the program has earned a No. 16 top-25 national ranking. Additionally, these seniors have also helped the program earn the Team Academic Award from the United Soccer Coaches during each of the last three academic years.
 
The first shot of the match came from almost 30 yards out by Wittenberg and hit the crossbar in the 13th minute, but Denison was not rattled and struck first in the 16th minute as Cameron McIntosh intercepted the pass from the Tigers' goalkeeper and scored the opening goal of the match.

A team save by Wittenberg on a shot by Henri Heyes in the 18th minute prevented a quick second goal for the time being, but it did not take long for Denison to double up its lead as a cross by Corey Brunner found its way to Jake Krueger, who put it in on his second attempt in the 24th minute.

That was followed by a red card on the Wittenberg goalkeeper as the Tigers were forced to play a man down the rest of the way.

With a field player playing in goal, a shot by Brunner was just saved by the new keeper, Ethan Archer, in the 25th minute.

Archer made another save on a shot by Phil Koutsaftis in the in the 32nd minute while Denison's Tommy Prokos had to make his only save of the match in the final two minutes of the first half.

In the second half, Archer saved another one of Brunner's shots in the 48th minute while Zarius Eusebe missed right just over 30 seconds later.

Denison added a penalty kick goal by Kameron Kist in the 59th minute despite a great effort by Archer, and then a free kick by Michael Sullivan turned into a goal in the 72nd minute.

"Tonight was a really good performance and a nice cap to a six-point week," spoke Brandon Bianco. "Finding the early goal from Cameron was big and it really pushed the group forward. On Senior Day, I'm really happen we could honor Chris and Rohan with this performance and we'll look forward to building on it into next week."

Denison improved to 9-3-2 overall and 3-1-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, and has now outscored Wittenberg (6-3-3, 1-2-1) 11-0 over the last three seasons.
 

Senior Day Recap:

Chris Giglio has played in 40 matches in his career with 35 starts,  and has started in every match he has played over the last two seasons. He scored his first-career goal this season in a 2-2 tie against Franklin College on September 11th, and then two matches later he recorded his first-career assist in a 2-1 upset win over No. 4-ranked John Carroll University on September 20th.

Rohan Tripathy has played in 59 matches, tallying nine goals and two assists in his career, including one goal and one assist as a senior. As a junior in 2022, Tripathy ranked second on the team with six goals scored and was third with 13 points. Tripathy was named First-Team Academic All-Ohio in 2022, and was a member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll in each of the last two years. He was also inducted into Denison's 2022-23 Chi Alpha Sigma class and was a member of the 2022 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Team.
 

With only three matches remaining in the regular season, Denison will play only one match next week as the Big Red head to Greencastle, Indiana, for a 4 p.m. kickoff at DePauw University on Wednesday, October 18.