OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City men's soccer will face its toughest challenge yet as the Stars gear up to host #5 Bellevue on Thursday night at Brian Harvey Field. 

Thursday, September 12
7:30 PM  – Oklahoma City (4-0, 0-0 SAC) vs #5 Bellevue (6-0, 0-0 NSAA)
Location: Oklahoma City | Brian Harvey Field
TV: SAC Sports Network
Live Stats: ocusports.com

STARS OUTLOOK
Oklahoma City comes off scoring the most goals since Sept. 16, 2021 by beating Randall 14-0 last Thursday. Oklahoma City had eight different scorers on Thursday while Nsonga, Alongi, Fahiya and Brulay all came away with multiple goals. Jovanny Nsonga was granted the Sooner Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week award after netting a hat trick against the Saints. OCU is off to its best start since 2022 who started the season 5-0 which had Stars assistant coach Harvey Paul as one its key players.

The success has been due partly because of the depth Oklahoma City is bringing which includes bringing last season's top goal scorer Marco Alongi come off the bench as well as Jordan Da Costa who started in all 19 games last season. The Stars have four players with five goals apiece which includes Alongi, as well as Ruben Fahiya and Jovanny Nsonga who were unavailable last season along with David Imbert who only participated in 10 games last season and has already set a program record for fastest hat trick which happened in a minute and a half. Oklahoma City still has not allowed a goal on this season as the Stars defense and goalkeeper Alexis Bertrand have kept teams from reaching the back of the net. OCU has outscored its opponents 32-0 through four games and look to carry the bill against the number five team in the country Bellevue for one of the most anticipated games at Brian Harvey Field in quite some time.


PLAYERS TO WATCH
David Imbert
Imbert's season is off to a hot start scoring four goals and having five assists while breaking a program record with hat trick in under a minute and a half. Imbert currently ties among three others for second most goals on the team. 

Ruben Fahiya
Fahiya comes off a two goal game in the 14-0 win over Randall which his second multi-goal match this season. After not playing for 13 months Fahiya debuted for OCU in the opener against Bethany where burst onto the scene with a pair of goals and one assist. Fahiya brought his season total to five on the year to go along with two assists. 

Jovanny Nsonga
Winning Sooner Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week after his hat trick performance Jovanny Nsonga comes off the best game of his career in the 14-0 win over Randall.Nsonga also notched his first assist of the season against the Saints while scoring in back-to-back games.

Thomas Brualy 
The Stars captain Thomas Brualy has been the heart of the Stars squad. After sitting out last year, Brualy returned with force by starting his year with a team-high six assists in four games and comes off his first mutli-goa game against Randall where netted two in the 14-0 win over the Saints.

SCOUTING THE BRUINS...
Bellevue comes in 6-0 and ranked fifth in the country. The Bruins come off an outstanding 2023 season where they reached the NAIA quarterfinals after beating Mid-America Christian in the NAIA second round, winning over Indiana Wesleyan in the Round of 16 and then saw the season come to a close in the quarterfinal to Milligan who eventually reached to the National Championship game. 

Bellevue is off to strong start yet again where the Bruins come off a win in the final minute over Morningside 2-1. Matias Daniel-Doren leads the way for Bellevue with five goals on the year scoring in four of the six games while having a multi-goal game in the season opener against Doane. 

Ombeni Mubake and Jeremiah Hteh come in as the two other Bruins with more than one goal as Mubake had tallied three while assisting on a goal in each of those game while Hteh has made two which came in the first two games of the season. 

SERIES HISTORY
Thursday's game will be the first ever meeting between the two schools as they square off at 7:30 on Brian Harvey Field. 

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