GAME 2
Bowling Green (1-0-0) vs. Duquesne (0-0-1)
Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 5:00 p.m.
Rooney Field | Pittsburgh, Pa.
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From The Pitch
- The Duquesne University men's soccer team continues a three-game homestand Sunday with a 5:00 p.m. match against Bowling Green at Rooney Field.
- The Dukes opened their 2026 campaign with a
scoreless draw against Lafayette (8/20). Duquesne held a 15-6 edge in shots, with junior forward
Roni Badler recording a game-high five.
- The Dukes have compiled a record of 16-12-4 (.563) all-time in season openers, including a mark of 7-4-3 (.607) under head coach
Chase Brooks.
- Duquesne returns six starters from a 2025 squad that finished with an overall mark of 8-6-2 (.562), including a 2-6 (.250) ledger in the Atlantic 10. In a preseason poll of head coaches, the Dukes were picked to finish 10th in the conference in 2026.
- Included among the six returning starters for Duquesne is four of the top five scorers from 2025, including leading scorer
Jaxon Ervin. A two-time member of the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team (2024, 2025), Ervin started all 16 games for the Dukes last year and finished with a team-high 12 points thanks to five goals and a pair of assists.
- Ervin is the active leading scorer at Duquesne with 24 points courtesy of eight goals and eight assists. He has started 34 of his 44 career games on the Bluff over the last four seasons.
- Also returning as starters for the Dukes this season are midfielders
Miles Imparato and
Pepo Bravo and defenders
Ashwin Menon,
Luke Fiscus and
Alex Posada. Imparato finished with seven points thanks to a pair of goals and three assists, while Bravo produced a team-high four assists in 2025.
- Menon and Posada join Ervin in having started all 16 games for Duquesne last season. Menon, who finished with six points a year ago, has started 34 consecutive games dating back to the beginning of the 2024 season, the longest active streak by a student-athlete for the Dukes. Posada, meanwhile, was tabbed to the 2025 Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team and led the team in minutes played (1,414).
- The Dukes are led by head coach
Chase Brooks, who is in his 14th season leading the program in 2026. Brooks has compiled an overall record of 96-93-30 (.507) at Duquesne and is the program's all-time leader in coaching victories. In his 16th year as a head coach overall, Brooks has posted a mark of 118-99-39 (.537).
- Duquesne established a new program record with 11 consecutive wins at Rooney Field over the course of the 2023 and 2024 seasons, while its eight victories at home in 2024 is a school record. The Dukes own a mark of 31-6-7 (.784) at Rooney Field since the beginning of the 2021 campaign.
- The final match of a three-game homestand after taking on the Falcons Sunday comes Thursday, August 24, with a 4:00 p.m. start against Mount St. Mary's at Rooney Field.
Scouting the Falcons – Located in Bowling Green, Ohio … Member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) … BGSU opened its 2026 campaign with a 5-2 victory over Wright State (8/20), grabbing a 3-0 lead in the first half en route to the victory … Forward Trace Terry scored a pair of goals for the Falcons to power Bowling Green to the win over the Raiders … Terry is a 2024 All-American and a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference Team selection … In 69 career matches, Terry owns 73 career points … In his 18th season as head coach of Bowling Green is Eric Nichols (Ohio State '00), who owns a career record of 196-149-50 (.559), including a mark of 137-127-48 (.516) at BGSU … Duquesne and Bowling Green have played seven times previously, with the all-time series knotted, 2-2-3 (.500) … In the last meeting between the two programs, Duquesne and Bowling Green tied,
2-2, August 21, 2023, at Rooney Field … All four goals in the contest were scored in the first half, including strikes from Jayden Da and Zach Mowka for the Dukes.
Reserve Spark – In returning four of its top five scorers from last year, junior forward
Roni Badler was a key contributor for the Dukes, mostly as a reserve. He played in 11 contests a year ago, including one start, and tied for second on the squad in goals (4) while ranking third in points (8). Owning one of the more lethal strikes in the lineup, 52.4 percent (11-of-21) of Badler's shots during the year were on frame. He led Duquesne in shots on goal and was one of seven players to produce a game-winning goal throughout the season. Badler has played 16 career games on the Bluff and owns five goals on 18 shots on net, including a pair of game winners. He fired a career-high five shots in the 2026 season opener against Lafayette (8/20).
The New Style – The starting lineup for Duquesne in its 2026 season opener featured four players making their debut on the Bluff. Each is a transfer, including redshirt freshman
Steel Bayer and senior
Sergios Feneridis on defense, forward
Jameson Michel and goalkeeper
Sam Coss. Bayer is a transfer from West Virginia and in the season opener against Lafayette (8/20) logged 73 minutes, while Feneridis, a transfer from Virginia Tech who missed last season rehabbing from injury, posted a shot in 56 minutes of action. Michel, a transfer from Maryland, played 52 minutes in his Duquesne debut, while Coss, who also missed last year due to injury in his first year with the Dukes, earned his first career clean sheet in his first career start. Coss, a transfer from Syracuse, posted a pair of saves.
The Next Step – A key figure in the lineup as a rookie last season was
Hákon Dagur Matthíasson, who scored a pair of goals while notching an assist for five points. Included among his strikes was the lone goal in a 1-0 victory at Syracuse that helped him earn Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors. Both of the times that Matthíasson found the back of the net last year wound up a game-winning goal. He also produced a goal and an assist in 55 minutes of the 2025 season opener, a 3-0 triumph over Seton Hill at Rooney Field.
One – Since the beginning of the 2021 campaign, the Dukes own a record of 33-13 (.717) in one-goal matches. Included in that stretch is a 19-5 (.792) record in such games at Rooney Field and a 14-8 (.636) mark on the road.
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