Game 8	NJIT (3-2-2; 0-0-0 ASUN) at Jacksonville (3-4-0, 0-0-0 ASUN)
Date|Time	Wednesday, September 21 | 7pm
Location|Venue	Jacksonville, FL | Southern Oak Stadium
Live Coverage	ESPN3 streaming telecast (WatchESPN app; www.watchespn.com)  Scott Manze (play-by-play) and Ryan Patridge (analyst)
Live Stats	In-game statistics (free)
Social Media	@njithighlanders | @ASUN Soccer

NEWARK, NJ—NJIT men's soccer will make the program's first-ever road trip against an ASUN Conference opponent, visiting Jacksonville on Wednesday, September 21. The game will be streamed live on ESPN3 at 7pm.

Live coverage on ESPN3
The game will be shown live on ESPN3 with Scott Manze, voice of the Dolphins, on play-by-play, with analysis from Jacksonville's Women's Soccer Coach Ryan Patridge.

A simple way to find ESPN3 is on NJIT's official athletics website, www.njithighlanders.com. Near the middle of the home page NJIT TV section, click Upcoming Events for a list of scheduled NJIT contests. After finding the event, click the camera icon to the right of the event listing. That brings you to an ESPN3 portal where you can access the desired program.

For more details on how to watch NJIT on ESPN3, go to the section at the bottom of this page.

A Look at NJIT
Men's soccer, which played the previous two seasons as an associate member of the Sun Belt Conference, is in its first season as a member of the school's multi-sport conference, the ASUN Conference.  Men's Soccer begins competing in the ASUN a year later than the other NJIT programs, which began play in the ASUN in 2015-16.

The Highlanders enter the game with a 3-2-2 overall mark, with two 1-0 victories over Fairleigh Dickinson and Manhattan, to open the 2016 season and 3-2 thrilling win at Niagara. 

NJIT, which has played in three overtime matches, drew even with 2015 Atlantic 10 regular season champion George Washington, 1-1, and most recently against Stony Brook, 2-2.

Goalkeeper Victor Pujades ranks second in the league with two clean sheets and his .910 goals against average is just outside the top-50 in the NCAA.

Recapping Stony Brook Match
NJIT (3-2-2) scored a goal in each half while Stony Brook (4-2-1), a tough team from the America East Conference, entered the match winners of its last three, used two second-half goals to erase a 1-0 halftime deficit before, drawing even late in regulation to settle for a 2-2 draw.

NJIT got on the board in the 29th minute on a header by freshman Rene White off a beautiful cross from classmate Andy Alvarez for a 1-0 advantage.

The Seawolves evened the match at 1-1 in the 59th minute and scored five minutes later, connecting on a penalty kick by sophomore Vince Erdei, taking a 2-1 lead.

The Highlanders tied the game at 2-2 in the 81st minute on the first goal of the season by senior Victor Kausch.  NJIT freshman Juan Zapata served a free kick from the left side of the field to the back post, to a waiting Kausch, who headed home the free kick.

Head Coach Fernando Barboto
Fernando Barboto came to NJIT after a successful 13-year run as head coach at Iona in New Rochelle, NY, where he won 116 games and built a program from one that was winless in 20 matches the year before he arrived to one that was a perennial Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference contender by the time he left.

NJIT Leaders
Goals: Mamadou Guirassy (3) and Rene White (3)
Assists: Andy Alvarez (2) and Rickardo Oldham (2)
Points: Mamadou Guirassy (6) and Rene White (6)
Saves: Victor Pujades (20)

A Look at Jacksonville
Jacksonville, who has played its last three matches away from home, will host first-time opponent NJIT on Wednesday at 7pm. 

The Dolphins (3-4), which dropped its previous two contests against Mercer and Central Florida, won a stretch of three matches (Sept. 3-Sept. 8) against UNC Asheville, Georgia Southern and 2015 NCAA Participant South Florida.

Jacksonville Leaders
Goals: Kai Bennett (4)
Assists: 5 players with (1)
Points: Kai Bennett (9)
Saves: Patrick Harding (10)

ASUN Preseason Poll
Jacksonville, who finished 3-12-1, 1-4 in the ASUN a year ago, earned one first-place vote in the 2016 ASUN Preseason Coaches poll and was selected to finish fourth while the league newcomers, NJIT, were picked fifth.  Last season the Highlanders finished 5-10-4.

Dolphins vs. Highlanders
This will mark the second all-time meeting between the two schools.  NJIT previously beat Jacksonville, 3-2, at the Mike Gibbs Memorial Tournament in Jacksonville, to open the 2014 season

How to watch NJIT sports programming on ESPN
ESPN3 is ESPN's live multi-screen sports network.  It is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

The network is currently available to more than 99 million homes at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated service provider.

ESPN3 is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-campus educational and on-base military broadband and Wi-Fi networks. That means devices served by NJIT's on-campus computer network can link directly to ESPN3.

Others can access ESPN3 through WatchESPN if they receive ESPN programming from an affiliated service provider. Those users need to provide the username and password they use in online communication with their regular service provider (can usually be found on regular billing material from the service provider).

Here is a link to Frequently Asked Questions about WatchESPN.