{"id":3783,"date":"2021-05-06T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2021-05-09T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:05:06","slug":"preview-no-6-pirates-take-on-virginia-tech-in-the-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/2021\/05\/06\/preview-no-6-pirates-take-on-virginia-tech-in-the-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: No. 6 Pirates take on Virginia Tech in the Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 6 Seton Hall men\u2019s soccer team (10-1-3) will face off against the Virginia Tech Hokies (7-6-3) in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men\u2019s Soccer Tournament on May 6 at 9:00 p.m. Seton Hall is coming off their 2-1 first round victory over the Air Force Academy while the Hokies took down the Oregon State Beavers in overtime also by a score of 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the last game, the Pirates two goals were scored by JP Marin and CJ Tibbling, who got the go-ahead goal in the final minutes of the match. This goal was Tibbling\u2019s third game winning goal for the season for the Pirates and has now scored the game winning goal in back-to-back games. \u00a0One of the keys to last game for the Pirates was the number of shots they earned. The Pirates outshot Air Force 23 to nine. While the difference in the number of shots makes it look like the Hall had a clear advantage, the game was tied 1-1 for most of the match<\/p>\n<p>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3784\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa-373x210.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa-373x210.jpeg 373w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa-889x500.jpeg 889w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2021\/05\/shu-vs-air-force-ncaa.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking at Virginia Tech\u2019s first round match, they had a pretty similar match to the Pirates. The Hokies were up 1-0 for the majority of the match until they allowed Oregon State to break through in the 87<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Their game-winning goal came in the final minutes of the first period of overtime where Jacob Labovitz scored his second header of the match to secure the win over the Beavers.<\/p>\n<p>While Seton Hall has the better record between the two teams, Virginia Tech is no pushover. Earlier in the season they were able to stay in competition with No. 5 Virginia and tie 1-1. They also defeated Virginia when they weren\u2019t ranked later in the season by a score of 1-0. Another big win they had was a 2-0 victory over the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and they got a top-25 1-0 victory over the No. 15 North Carolina Tar Heels.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude4a\ud835\ude50\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude3f \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude43\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude40\ud835\ude40<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udd9aVirginia Tech<br \/>\u23f09 pm<br \/>\ud83d\udccdCary, N.C.<br \/>\ud83c\udfdf\ufe0fWakeMed Field #4<br \/>\ud83d\udcbb<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dkkntz7UYK\">https:\/\/t.co\/dkkntz7UYK<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udcca<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0LPhgdjByG\">https:\/\/t.co\/0LPhgdjByG<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HALLin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HALLin<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\u26aa\ufe0f | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NCAASoccer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCAASoccer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ik036IMU7q\">pic.twitter.com\/Ik036IMU7q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seton Hall Men&#39;s Soccer (@SHUMSOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHUMSOC\/status\/1390314034885431302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This Virginia Tech team\u2019s strong suit is its defense. The most goals they\u2019ve allowed in a game this season is four, but they were able to hold Oregon State to one goal in 110<sup>th<\/sup> minute with the Beavers being the nation\u2019s leading offense. Tibbling and the Pirate offense will have to be on their game in order to get past the stout Hokie defense, which includes redshirt-freshmen goalkeeper Matt Zambetti who recorded six saves in their win over the Beavers.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night has all the makings of a classic as a trip to the Elite Eight is on the line for both these teams. This is the first time the Hokies and Pirates are matching up since 2002 where the Pirates earned a 2-1 victory over the Hokies. Seton Hall is 2-0 over Virginia Tech all-time with both matches coming in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to be on the lookout for all of The Clarity Stripe\u2019s coverage of today\u2019s match!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 6 Seton Hall men\u2019s soccer team (10-1-3) will face off against the Virginia Tech Hokies (7-6-3) in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men\u2019s Soccer Tournament on May 6 at 9:00 p.m. Seton Hall is coming off their 2-1 first round victory over the Air Force Academy while the Hokies took down the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4988,"featured_media":3542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,386,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hall-sports","category-pirates-on-the-pitch","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}