Football Highlights Stonehill Wednesday on NESN in Non-League Final – Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men’s soccer hosts Stonehill College in its non-league finale on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 7:00 pm (ESPN+/NESN) at Jordan Field, marking the third straight game in which the Crimson will appear on ESPN and the NESN family of networks.

What You Need to Know: Harvard Highlights

• The Crimson (2-5-4, 1-3-0 Ivy) takes on the Skyhawks (4-7-3, 1-2-2 NEC) in its final non-conference game of the season. After back-to-back games on NESN + Yale (Oct. 12) and Brown (Oct. 19), Harvard will appear on NESN for the first time this year.
• In its first four games in the month of October, Harvard posted a 2-1-1 record and allowed just three goals in those four contests. The Crimson allowed one or fewer goals in each of those games. The season included wins over Merrimack (3-1, Oct. 1) and Yale (1-0, Oct. 12), a draw with Boston University (1-1, Oct. 8), and a shutout weak against that time-No. . 25 Penn (1-0, Oct. 5).
• A young man Dylan Tellado leads Harvard by six points on three goals. He is in 10th place^th in the Ivy League with goals (three). Tellado scored two goals for his second career goal at No. 13 Seton Hall (Sept. 14). He scored his first goal of the season against Holy Cross (Aug. 31). He now has six career goals.
• Elder Marko Isakovic leads the Crimson by six points on the year. He scored his first goal of the season for URI (Sept. 5) and added his second assist of the year vs. Merrimack (Oct. 1). Isakovic had his first assist of the year against Holy Cross (Aug. 31) and added another to No. 13 Seton Hall (Sept. 14). He now has 11 assists in 54 games played.
• Junior Nicholas Nyquist improved to five points on the year with two goals and one assist. Scored his first career game-winning goal at Yale (Oct. 12). Nyquist posted a career-high three points at Merrimack (Oct. 1) with a goal and an assist. He notched his first team goal against the Warriors.
• A great protector Jan Riecke has started all 61 games for the Crimson since the start of the 2021 season. A three-time All-Ivy selection, Riecke played all 990 minutes on the season. He earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for Oct. 14 after the Crimson’s 1-0 shutout at Yale (Oct. 12).
• A small defender Zachary Sardi-Santos leads the team and ranks eighth in the Ivy League with three assists on the year.
• Elder Kristján Gunnarsson produced four points on the season behind a goal and two assists. Scored his first career goal against Brown (Oct. 19).
• Junior Juho Ojanen added assists in back-to-back games – at Yale (Oct. 12) and Brown (Oct. 19). In conference play, he ranks third in the league in assists (two).
• Goalkeepers are young Lucian Wood and Cullen MacNeil both started in 2024. Wood leads the Ivy League in saves per game (4.75) during conference play, pitched a shutout at Yale (Oct. 12), and made career high nine saves at Princeton (Sept. 28) . MacNeil had five saves in a shutout at Northeastern (Sept. 17), four saves in a 1-1 draw at URI (Sept. 5), and an assist at BU (Oct. 8) . Wood made 16 starts in 2023, posting a 1.44 GAA and two shutouts.
• In the old Yale season (Oct. 12), junior Nicholas Nyquist scored his first game-winning goal, his youngest goal Lucian Wood scored his first shutout of the season, and Harvard outlasted the Bulldogs, 1-0.
• In the derby, Harvard tied 1-1 at Boston University (Oct. 8) behind a first-year goal. Xavier Tanyi. The goalkeeper is young Cullen MacNeil with the assist on the goal, marking the Crimson’s first assist on a goal since 2021.
• To open the month of October, the Crimson took down Merrimack, 3-1, behind goals from the junior. Bobby Cuppselder Marko Isakovicand the youngest Nicholas Nyquist. Eight different members of the Crimson scored in the game as Harvard improved to 1-0-1 at home.
• In a crosstown contest, the Crimson marked its first clean sheet of 2024 when Harvard tied Northeastern (Sept. 17), 0-0. The goalkeeper is young Cullen MacNeil he made five saves in his first season shutout.
• Harvard went 1-1 in each of its first two games to open the season. In its season opener against Holy Cross (Aug. 31) sophomore Dylan Tellado he got the same goal in 73^rd minute, and against Rhode Island (Sept. 5), big Marko Isakovic awarded a penalty in the 36th round^th a minute.
• Harvard and Stonehill will meet for the first time in men’s soccer on Wednesday.
• Stonehill brings a 4-7-3 overall record and a 1-2-2 NEC mark into Wednesday’s contest. Collin Milliken leads the team with 15 points on six goals and three assists. In goal, Ryan Claffey, Tyler Sloan and Kyle Tencza have all made at least four starts.

What You Need to Know: Out of Bounds

• Elder Sam Bjarnason serves as President of the Harvard Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) and represents Harvard at Ivy League SAAC events. Bjarnason was selected to be the male representative for the Ivy League for the NCAA Leadership Forum in November 2024. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he is writing a thesis on possible reforms in the US electoral system from a perspective of the majority.
• A young man Erik Dalaker he serves as Co-Chair for the Coalition for Global Affairs at the Harvard Institute of Politics, President of the Harvard Nordic Club, and as a Student Representative for the Center for International Development. Fluent in seven languages ​​- Norwegian, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Swedish and Danish – Dalaker spent two months in the summer of 2024 in Jordan, continuing his Arabic studies, while enter the Jordanian domestic political tank.
• Elder Edwin Dominguez he got engaged to his girlfriend in the spring of 2024. The two plan to marry in the fall of 2025.
• Elder Kristján Gunnarsson spent the summer of 2024 working on business strategy and development. He serves as an active member of the Harvard College Events Board, a group that plans school concerts featuring artists such as Swae Lee and Jeremih.
• A young man Yuta Hata spent two months in Hong Kong in the summer of 2024 completing training that involved replicating and simulating robotic arms virtually.
• Elder Marko Isakovic – Serbian national math champion as a teenager – enjoys solving difficult math problems by thinking outside the box, using pattern recognition, and other methods – a mindset that serves him well on the field.
• A young man Ben Kelly serves Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), a nonprofit organization that raises money for student financial aid as the largest student-run organization in the world.
• Junior Rustin Khosravi he spent the summer of 2024 in Barcelona, ​​​​​​going to the bullfights in Pamplona and fly fishing in the Pyrenees.
• Junior Cullen MacNeil He is involved with Harvard Innovation Labs’ Student i-Lab, exploring several businesses including a tool to help users manage mobile addiction. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, MacNeil served as a product manager at the startup called Scuba Aquatics in the summer of 2024.
• Junior Nicholas Nyquist spent the summer of 2024 working at a venture capital firm called nFront Ventures. Nyquist helped the firm source more than 200 companies in two months and helped the group expand its investment network in Europe.
• Elder Jan Riecke led a sustainability competition for high school students around the world for the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group. Riecke also worked at the World Economic Forum’s Center for Trusted Technology.
• Elder Ludovico Rollo – who owns a collection of vinyl records – is writing a major thesis on the gut microbiome.
• Junior Zachary Sardi-Santos spent two months in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the summer of 2024 through Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Summer Internship Program. Sardi-Santos was appointed to the Minsterio Publico of Rio de Janeiro, helping to solve problems in the public sector. At Harvard, Sardi-Santos – a member of Harvard Hillel and a tour guide for Harvard Student Associations – also served as the male lead (Jason) in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s musical, Medea, during the the year 2024.
• A young man Is Sherwood is a member of STAHR (Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe) and editor of Harvard Crimson.
• A young man Dylan Tellado completed an internship with Nashville SC of Major League Soccer as a data scientist and software engineer. Tellado worked to build a model to measure each team’s control over the field with more than three million stamps per game.
• Junior Matus Vician – a first-year student with an interest in orthopedic surgery – completed research at the Harvard Lab for Skeletal and Muscular Biology in the summer of 2024, measuring the metabolic cost of swinging the arm during walking and running. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he spent the summer of 2023 volunteering in Vietnam with Coach for College.
• Junior Lucian Wood produced, wrote, and directed a short film — a 10-minute, dialogue-driven story that focuses on love, depression and mental health — in the summer of 2024. Wood hopes to lead film, titled “I See You,” at national and international film festivals in the spring of 2025.

Next Up

Harvard hosts Columbia on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 1:00 pm (ESPN+) Jordan Field.