WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – After completing an undefeated Landmark Conference regular season in its first year in the conference, the Lycoming College men's soccer team will enter into its first Landmark Conference Championship as the No. 2 seed and open its postseason run in the conference semifinal on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m., at UPMC Field when the team faces No. 6 Goucher, who beat No. 3 Elizabethtown, 3-2, in a first-round game on Tuesday.
 
Tickets for the game are $7 for adults and $4 for students ages 10-17 and seniors (age 62 and over). Landmark Conference students, faculty and staff are Free with campus ID. Tickets can be purchased online here. Lycoming season passes will not be accepted for Landmark Conference Championship events.
 
The winner of the game will face the winner of the other Landmark Conference semifinal between No. 1 Catholic and No. 4 Drew, which will be held Thursday at 4 p.m.
 
The Warriors (10-3-6 overall, 7-0-2 Landmark) had an identical conference record to Catholic (10-6-2 overall, 7-0-2 Landmark), but Catholic earned the tiebreaker to earn the No. 1-seed due to the conference's second tiebreaking criteria – a comparison of tied teams' records against remaining teams in conference standings in descending order - as Catholic beat third-seeded Elizabethtown and Lycoming tied the Blue Jays, 0-0, in the regular-season finale.
 
Lycoming finished the regular season leading the Landmark Conference in goals-against average (0.842), shutout percentage (.579), winning percentage (.684) and corner kicks per game (6.16), while the team's 1.32 goals per game was fifth in the league.
 
Senior Nick Wilke (Mercerville, N.J./Notre Dame) finished the regular season second in Division III in minutes played (1,689:13) and fourth in shutouts (10), which is one shy of the school record set by Connor Keenan in 2014. Wilke is second in the Landmark Conference with a .821 save percentage.
 
Senior Kenny Clapp (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) has proved the most prolific catalyst on a balanced offense where 12 different players have scored and 18 have contributed at least one point. Clapp, an all-region defender in 2022, is fourth in the Landmark Conference with six assists. Junior Jaeden Asare (Letterkenny, Ireland/Perry Hall) leads the team with four goals, while sophomore Christian Woobay (Gaithersburg, Md./Quince Orchard), senior Joey Francis (Camp Hill, Pa./Cedar Cliff) and senior Brayden Wise (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) all have three.
 
The rules in NCAA soccer do change a bit in the postseason as well, with the addition of overtime and penalty kick shootouts. If teams are tied at the end of a regulation, 90-minute game, the teams will play two additional full 10-minute periods. If neither team is ahead at the end of that period, the teams will advance to a shootout, where each team has five shots which must be taken by different players and the team that makes more successful kicks is declared the victor. Shoot-outs finish as soon as one team has an insurmountable lead. After five rounds, additional rounds are added until there is a winner.