River Forest, Ill.—The Dominican University Men's Soccer program continues NACC play as they look to face Marian University on Saturday.

Series History vs. Marian:
All-Time Record /Streak/: 21-2-0/W3
-The first time these two schools played was on October 30^th, 2002, at West Campus Field, with the Stars winning 1-0.
-The Stars won the first 18 matchups in this series. With one of those matches having 8 yellow cards combined between both teams and 2 red cards for Marian.
-Dominican has the upper hand on MU in the last 10 matchups, with Dominican's record being 8-2-0.
-The Stars are 10-1-0 at Marian against the Sabres.
-Dominican has held Marian to only 2 goals in the past three matches.
-The Stars have scored 88 goals against Marian and average 3.83 goals a match.

DU in Review: 
-DUMSOC holds a 2-1-1 record so far in the 2026 season.
-Dominican finished the 2025 season with a 7-8-4 record, including going 7-3-2 in the conference and 5-3-2 at home. 
-The Stars notched the fifth seed in the NACC Tournament and fell on the road at MSOE in the NACC quarterfinal matchup. 
-Head Coach Erick Baumann enters his 32nd season at the helm of the Dominican Men's Soccer program. Baumann has amassed an impressive 470-127-54 (.763) record in that time. Coach Baumann is coming off his first ever losing season as Dominican University men's soccer head coach. 
 
Familiar Faces: 
-Senior Tristen Banquil is back in a Stars kit for his senior season and is looking to make a last impact on the DUMSOC program. Banquil is coming off a season where he played and started in 17 matches while scoring 5 goals on 16 shots on goal in his 1257 minutes. 
-Junior Jonathan Almaguer returns to DU in his third season after having a great sophomore campaign. Almaguer played in 19 matches and started 14 of those matches, while registering 3 goals and 4 assists from the midfield. The junior is looking to improve for a third straight season. 
-Senior Ciaran Geraghty returns as a big part of the Stars backline. Geraghty started in 18 matches last season while marking 1620 minutes on the pitch. The senior from Scottsdale, AZ, also logged an assist with six shots over the course of the season. 
-Sophomore Enzo Cinque came on strong for Dominican as a key player off the bench and is looking to solidify a bigger role on this squad. Cinque scored 4 goals on 24 shots in his 18 matches played in his freshman year. 
-Sophomore Rogelio Cisneros stepped up when DU struggled on the offensive side of the ball, scoring 2 goals with 2 assists in his 13 matches played. 
-Sophomore Cody Leyba returns between the posts this upcoming season. Leyba started in 5 matches last season but played in 9. The sophomore made 21 saves and held a 7-1 record in his freshman season. 
 
Last Time Out: 
-Dominican tied 2-2 with MSOE in their first conference match of the season.
-Junior Travis Fowler scored his first goal of the season in the 26^th minute of the match. This was Fowler's only shot of the match.
-Sophomore Eduardo Lopez buried his only shot of the match for his first goal of the season.
-Senior Tristen Banquil collected 4 shots, and 3 of them found the target. Banquil assisted on Lopez's goal.
-Junior Jonathan Almaguer earned an assist on Fowler's goal. Almaguer also earned 2 shots in the match.
-Freshman Alexander Julian Garcia held a clean sheet in his 45 minutes, making 3 saves.


Scouting Report: 
-Marian is 0-4-1 on the 2026 season after losing their last three matches.
-The Sabres are 0-4-1 on the road and this will their first home game of the season.
-Marian lost to Carthage for their season opener, tied with Ripon 2-2, lost to Lawrence, UW-Whitewater, and St. Norbert 0-1.
-Last season the Sabres went 5-10-4 overall with a 3-6-3 conference record while going 4-4-3 at home.
-Marian's season ended to Edgewood in the first round of the NACC tournament last year.
 
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