MORAGA, Calif. – Saint Mary's Men's Soccer begins WCC play this Saturday when they host rival Santa Clara in Moraga, Calif. The Gaels will also be celebrating alumni day, and honoring the 2011 team that made the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
 
The Broncos own the all-time, head-to-head matchup, but the teams played to a 1-1 tie last season, and SMC won four straight against San Clara from 2018-21.
 
THE DETAILS
Saint Mary's (5-2-2) vs. Santa Clara (4-1-1)
Saturday, September 30 at 1:00 pm
Saint Mary's Stadium – Moraga, Calif.
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LAST TIME OUT
Saint Mary's ran into the buzz saw that is the No. 6 team in the nation in the Stanford Cardinal, and had a 4-0 loss down on The Farm. The Gaels did get three shots on goal in the second half, including a right-footed shot from Riley Lynch that was handled by the keeper in the 48th minute and a blistering shot from Storm Schmidt Hollensted in the 57th minute that required a save to keep it out of the bottom right corner of the net.
 
Even with the three goals allowed, keeper Jack Landreth still made six spectacular saves to keep the Gaels in the game.
 
ABOUT SANTA CLARA
Through nine games, Caden Buckley, Adem Hamdaoua and Joshua Dabora leads
the team with five points each. All three players have tallied two goals and an assist.
 
Goalkeeper Jack Stoecker made his season debut last week getting the starting nod against CSU Bakersfield (Sept. 21) and CSUN (Sept. 24). In two games, he collected nine saves, allowed just one goal and posted the team's first clean sheet of the season. Against CSU Bakersfield, he made six saves, tying a season-high for Bronco goalkeepers.
 
Felix Schaefer recorded six saves vs. Incarnate word (Sept. 7), one off his career-
high mark set against San Francisco (Oct. 26, 2022).
 
Captain Caden Buckley was named to the 2023 preseason All-West Coast Conference team by a vote of the league's eight head coaches. Buckley is a two-time all-conference honorable mention selection in 2022 and in 2020 when he was also named to the all-freshman team. 
 
In 2022, the midfielder from Las Vegas started in all 13 matches he appeared in and finished third on the team with 1,090 minutes of action and tallied two assists.  Both assists came in league play including on a game-winner against San Francisco.
 
Second-year SCU assistant coach Riley Hanley played for the Gaels from 2011-14
and will be making his first trip back to Moraga as a Bronco.
 
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