🆚 Lindenwood University
📆 Sunday, October 19, 2025
⏰ 1 pm CT
🏟️ Hunter Stadium – St. Charles, Missouri
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Houston Christian University plays its final regular season road match when it faces league-leading Lindenwood University in a Sunday matinee. Kick-off at Hunter Stadium in St. Charles, Missouri is slated for 1 pm.
The Huskies are coming off a hard-luck defeat at two-time defending OVC champion SIUE on Thursday, a rematch of last year's conference championship match. In a match where HCU allowed just three shots on target by the hosts, the Huskies were undone in the 85th minute snapping a three-match winning streak in the process.
HCU is now 8-4-1 overall and 3-2-1 in Head Coach
Ryan Pratt's ninth season at the helm and 12th season overall with the program. The Huskies fell out of a three-way tie for first place, as Lindenwood was the only one of the three to earn three points on Thursday bumping its season total to 13, two points ahead of Liberty. The Flames played to a 2-2 draw at Eastern Illinois to fall into second place, with the Huskies sitting one point back in third place at 10 points.
The brace in Thursday's match was the first in the career of
Ryan Okerayi, who leads the club with 15 points and seven goals having put 21 of his 33 shots on goal thus far for a .636 SOG%. He now sits in seventh place all-time with 19 goals, and is second in the league in goals and points.
The Huskies have had eight players hit the back of the net this season and have a .459 SOG% as a team.
Joby Reid and
D'Alessandro Herrera are now tied for second on the club in goals. Reid is second on the squad in points with 10 and paces the Huskies with four assists, tied for fifth in the OVC.
Herrera's two-assist game last Thursday against Eastern Illiniois was the third in his career, giving him 18 for his career and moving him into fifth place on the all-time charts, where he needs just two more to move into second place.
Ben Thirkill has three assists for the Huskies, while Herrera,
Ron Pressler and
Nico Kross each have a pair. HCU has registered 18 assists on 18 goals thus far on the campaign.
Aitken leads the league with his seven clean sheets, a 0.77 GAA and a .846% save percentage, while ranking fourth in total saves with 55. The senior from Great Barford, England now has 24 victories for his career, ranking as the all-time leader since the program was restarted in 2006. Already the all-time leader in saves, Aitken last week put his name at the top of the leaderboard in shutouts, as Sunday gave him 19 for his career, passing former keeper and former Head Coach
Benny Agosto.
The final regular season road trip of the 2025 campaign ends with a with a rematch of last year's Ohio Valley Conference semifinal, just the fourth all-time meeting between HCU and Lindenwood.
The two teams played to regular season stalemates in 2023 and 2024 before HCU claimed a 2-0 win over the Lions in the semifinals of the OVC Tournament in Edwardsville last year behind goals from
Sam Zeeman and
Ethan Giwa-McNeil.
Lindenwood is led by third-year head coach Kris Bertsch who has the high-octane Lions at 11-1-2 overall and 4-1-1 in OVC play following Thursday night's 2-0 home victory over Incarnate Word. LU is tied with Liberty as the highest scoring team in the league, hitting the back of the net 32 times in 14 contests for a 2.29 average per outing.
Grad forward Mateo Landais leads the charge, placing third in the league in points with 14 on three goals and a conference-topping eight assists. Three players are tied at 13 points apiece in grad midfielder Gavin Csiszar with six goals and one dime, with senior forwards Luca Bartoni and Ethan Blake chipping in four goals and five helpers apiece.
LU has employed a pair of goalkeepers who have allowed just 5 goals. Grad Quinn Clossen is 7-0 with 31 saves, while senior Gavin Roberts has started the past five matches in conference play, going 3-1-1.
HCU closes the 2025 regular season slate with three straight on Fondren Road, beginning with a Friday night match against arch-rival University of the Incarnate Word on October 24. The game with UIW is a rematch of the conference opener, a 1-1 stalemate in San Antonio on September 26.
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