OKLAHOMA CITY – The No. 17 MACU Men's Soccer program will be looking forward to a pair of challenging road matches up in Kansas this week as the Evangels will square off against Benedictine at 6 p.m. on Aug. 28 before traversing to Olathe for a 3:30 pm contest against No. 8 MidAmerica Nazarene on Saturday.
 
SEASON REPORT

• Record: 1-0-1
• Last Match: Won vs. McPherson (Kan.) – 2-1 – Aug. 23, 2025 – Dill Soccer Field
• Players to Watch:
  • Ryan Jeanfreau – SR – F
    • 1 Goal, 2 Points, 5 Shots, 2 SOG, 1 GWG, 2 GP, 2 GS, 149 MIN
  • Federico Palacios – JR – F
    • 1 Goal, 2 Points, 5 Shots, 2 SOG, 2 GP, 2 GS, 88 MIN
  • Alvaro Morera – SR – GK
    • 1-0-1 W-L, 0.50 GAA, 11 Saves, .917 SV%, 12 SF, 1 SHO, 2 GP, 2 GS, 180 MIN
• Team Notes:
  • Mid-America Christian managed to overcome some tough adversity to open the season last week as the Evangels came away with a 0-0 draw at No. 13 LSU Shreveport on Aug. 21 before returning home to pull out a 2-1 win over McPherson last Saturday.
  • In both matches, the Evangels had to play shorthanded during certain stretches of the game. In the draw at the Pilots, a double-yellow red booking for freshman centerback forced the Evangels to play down a man for the final 5:44. MACU faced an even bigger uphill climb against the Bulldogs as a straight red issued to Diego Sano forced MACU to play down to 10 men for 73 minutes of the match before another red assessed to Jair Estrada in the 78^th minute forced MACU down to nine men over the final 12 minutes.
  • Despite being down a man for most of the match, the Evangels still managed to net two goals in the 10-men situation as Federico Palacios scored MACU's first goal of the season in the 25^th minute before Ryan Jeanfreau scored the game-winner early in the 59^th minute.
  • Due to his excellent work in-goal, senior goalkeeper Alvaro Morera was award the Sooner Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week and the NCCAA Defensive Student-Athlete of the Week. Between the two stellar matches in net, Morera allowed only one shorthanded goal for a 0.50 goals allowed average and tallied 11 saves for a .917 save percentage.

SCOUTING REPORT
Benedictine (Kan.)

• Record: 1-0
• Last Match: Won at Friends – 3-0 – Aug. 21, 2025 – Wichita, Kan.
• Series vs MACU (2024-): MACU leads 1-0
• Last Match vs MACU: MACU won 1-0 – Aug. 30, 2024 – Dill Soccer Field
• Series Streak: MACU won 1
• Players to Watch:
  • Kody Argaez – JR – F
    • 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 3 Points, 3 Shots, 1 SOG, 1 GP, 1 GS, 65 MIN
  • Feliipe Vargas – JR - D
    • 1 Goal, 2 Points, 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 1 GP, 1 GS, 65 MIN
  • Hernan Burdiles – SR – GK
    • 1-0-0 W-L, 1.00 GAA, 3 Saves, .750 SV%, 1 GP, 1 GS, 90 MIN
• Team Notes:
  • Benedictine opened its 2025 campaign on the road last Thursday as the Ravens pulled out a 3-1 victory at Friends.
  • In that win, three different BC players found the back of the net in Kody Argaez and Feliipe Vargas while Fabian Viquez's goal in the 59^th minute proved to be the game-winner.
  • While both the Ravens and Falcons were evenly matched with Friends holding a slight 9-8 shot advantage and both teams put five shots on-frame, the Ravens were much more effective at finding the back of the net by scoring on 37.5 percent of its shot attempts to just 11.1 percent for Friends.
  • Thursday night's meeting will mark only the second all-time between the Evangels and Ravens. The two squads first met up at the Dill Soccer Field last year on Aug. 30 as MACU pulled out a thrilling 1-0 victory on Pietro Musso's game-winning goal as time expired at the end of regulation.

MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)

• Record: 1-0-1
• Last Game: Tied at Mississippi College – Aug. 23, 2025 – Clinton, Miss.
• Series vs MACU (2015-): MNU leads 2-0-1
• Last Match vs MACU: Tied 2-2 – Sept. 4, 2023 – Olathe, Kan.
• Series Streak: Tied 1
• Players to Watch:           
  • Tom Chartier – JR – D
    • 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 3 Points, 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 2 GP, 2 GS, 62 MIN
  • Antonio Mugica – SR – M
    • 1 Goal, 2 Points, 3 Shots, 1 SOG, 1 GWG, 2 GP, 2 GS, 68 MIN
  • Tobias Stirl – SR – GK
    • 1-0-1 W-L, 0.50 GAA, 7 Saves, .875 SV%, 2 GP, 2 GS, 180 MIN
• Team Notes:
  • MidAmerica Nazarene opened its 2025 season with a 1-0 road win against MACU's Sooner Athletic Conference rival, John Brown on Aug. 21 before heading down to NCAA D-II Mississippi College and grinding out a hard-fought 1-1 draw on Aug. 23.
  • Junior defender Tom Chartier and Antonio Mugica have netted the Pioneers lone two goals of the season thus far as Mugica's 40^th-minute score proved to be the game-winner against the Golden Eagles and Chartier's early second half goal in the 46^th minute forced the draw at MCU after conceding an own goal in the 22^nd minute.
  • The MNU defense has been lock down so far through their first two matches of the year as it only allowed two shots on-goal in the win at John Brown and six shots on-goal against the Choctaws.
  • Saturday's matchup will mark the fourth ever meeting between the Evangels and Pioneers. Even though MNU won the first two meetings by a score of 2-0 on Aug. 22, 2015 and 1-0 on Sept. 3, 2022, MACU forced a thriller draw in their last meeting on Sept. 4, 2023 when Federico Palacios made an incredible made an incredible 35-yard strike from the right side to the top left corner with 25 seconds left to seal the 2-2 result.