No. 24 GCU hosts California Baptist

Friday, March 19 | 7 p.m. | GCU Stadium


Grand Canyon Lopes (4-0, 4-0 WAC)	vs	California Baptist Lancers (4-0-2, 3-0-1 WAC)
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The Grand Canyon men's soccer team hosts California Baptist in a battle for the top spot in the WAC on Friday night. The Lopes are first in the WAC with an undefeated record and earned their first national ranking of the season at No. 24 in the United Soccer Coaches Poll this week.

The match will be streamed live GCUTV and the WAC Digital Network.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

JUST THE BEGINNING: GCU stayed undefeated last week with a win over Incarnate Word. The Lopes' 4-0 record to start the season is the program's best since 1989. If GCU gets the win on Friday, it will mark the first time in program history that it has started 5-0.
MAKING AN ENTRANCE: Two Lopes players scored career-first goals in the season opener vs. Houston Baptist. Moeller scored GCU's first goal of the season while senior forward Rey Gaytan made the winner.
END OF AN ERA: GCU head coach Schellas Hyndman announced that he will be retiring at the conclusion of this season. Hyndman is the second-winningest active coach in Division I men's soccer with a 507-169-58 record. He was inducted into the United Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame in the offseason in recognition of his 37-season coaching career.

SCOUTING

California Baptist is tied for second in the WAC with a 3-0-1 conference record and 4-0-2 overall record. The Lancers are on a three-match win streak with wins over Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word and Dixie State. CBU tied its first WAC match of the season against UT Rio Grande Valley, finishing 0-0 in the double-overtime match.

The Lancers went 1-0-1 in nonconference play, tying 0-0 in a double-overtime match vs. The Master's and winning 4-0 at San Diego.

Sophomore striker Bryan Iliohan leads California Baptist in points (nine) and goals (four).

The Lancers went 6-11-2 in 2019, finishing 5-5-1 in the WAC. CBU was selected to finish seventh in the WAC with 54 points in this season's Preseason Men's Soccer Coaches Poll.

The Lopes lead the series against California Baptist 12-2-2. In the last meeting between the two teams, GCU and CBU battled to a scoreless double-overtime match in Riverside, California.

LAST TIME OUT

GCU defeated Incarnate Word on the road 1-0 for its second consecutive shutout.

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Friday, March 19 | 7 p.m. | GCU Stadium

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

SCOUTING

LAST TIME OUT

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Players Mentioned

Rey Gaytan

Grand Canyon University Athletics