DETROIT (11/2/2016) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's soccer team has one more road trip in the 2016 season, visiting Belmont on Friday for a 7:30 p.m. (EST) first kick from Nashville, Tennessee, at E.S. Rose Park. The game is set to be broadcast through a live stream on BelmontBruins.com on the Bruin Sports Network.

The Titans and Belmont are playing in the last game of the regular season for the third-straight season. Detroit Mercy is unbeaten against the Bruins all-time with the Titans earning a 1-0 victory over Belmont in 2014 and securing a 2-0 win over the Bruins last year in Detroit.
 

Game 17  |  Detroit Mercy (3-9-4, 1-5-2 HL) vs. Belmont (2-12-3, 1-5-2 HL)
Date	Friday, Nov. 4  |  7:30 PM ET
Location	Nashville, Tenn.  |  E.S. Rose Park  |  Admission is FREE
Live Stats	Stat Broadcast
Live Stream/Video	BelmontBruins.com
Social Media	Twitter (In-game tweets): @DetroitTitans  |  @UDMSoccer  |  Facebook     Instagram  |  Tweet #DetroitsCollegeTeam
All-Time Series	Titans lead, 2-0  |  Last Meeting: Titans 2, Belmont 0 (11/6/2015)

Titan News & Notes
• Detroit Mercy has won both meetings with Belmont, both by shutout in the past two seasons.
• Senior Matt Harkema's game-winning score against IUPUI was his sixth career game-winning goal.
• Harkema has nine career goals, which is tied with teammate Tyler Moorman for the active lead.
• Senior Tommy Bowman (three goals, two assists) leads the team with eight points.
• Bowman is tied-for-third in league play in goals (3) and tied-for-fifth in points (7).
• Detroit Mercy is 3-for-4 on penalty kicks this season, including freshman Justin Murray's first collegiate goal at UIC.
• Josh Flamme has started the past three matches for Detroit Mercy in net and was named the HL Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 24.
• Bowman leads the team in minutes played at 1,399. He and midfielder Adam Clauss are the only players to start all 16 matches.
• Pliakos ranks 13th all-time in Detroit Mercy men's soccer history with 16 assists. He has three goals and on assist in 2016.
• Detroit Mercy has 11 freshmen on its roster this season, and thirty-six (36) starts have been made by true freshmen.
• The Titans played 12 of their 17 matches away from Titan Field in 2016.
• Nicholas Deren '99 enters his seventh full year as the leader of the men's soccer program. A former player for the University, Deren has spent the last 13 seasons with the Detroit Mercy men's soccer program as an assistant coach or head coach.

Scouting Belmont
The Bruins a 1-5-2 record in the Horizon League, the same mark as Detroit Mercy in league play. The Bruins have been shut out in nine of their past 10 matches, but defeated Oakland on the road, 2-0, on Oct. 22. In its past match, Belmont fell to UIC 2-0 in Chicago. At home in 2016, the Bruins are 1-4-2. Belmont has scored 11 goals and given up 34 during the season.

Jack Driscoll, Dennis Kluba and Nat Hubert all lead the team with two goals each. Freshman goalie Mertcan Akar leads the Horizon League and the NCAA in total saves with 108 and ranks second in the nation at 6.35 saves per game. He has a 76.4 save percentage and 1.93 goals against average.

All-Time Series
Detroit Mercy is 2-0 all-time against Belmont, winning in each of the past two seasons. The Titans have blanked the Bruins in both games, earning a 1-0 win in 2014 and a 2-0 victory last season in the regular-season finale in Detroit. Adam Clauss scored the game-winner two years ago on a PK, while Tyler Moorman tallied two goals in 2015, both off assists from junior Spiro Pliakos.

Flamme, Weaver Earn Horizon League Weekly Awards
Following a 2-0 week on the road, a pair of University of Detroit Mercy men's soccer players received accolades from the Horizon League with sophomore Josh Flamme and freshman Garret Weaver each earning weekly honors on Oct. 24. Flamme, a goalkeeper, was named the Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week, while Weaver was selected as the Co-Offensive Player of the Week in the conference. It was the first career honor for both players and the first weekly honors for the Titans in the 2016 season.

Flamme earned the award after recording two shutouts on the road last week, his first two career clean sheets. Weaver, who has started the last nine matches on the back line for Detroit Mercy, scored the game-winning goal at NKU, heading home a free kick in the 70th minute to provide the only scoring of the game.

Bowman Earns CoSIDA Academic All-District Honor
Senior midfielder Tommy Bowman was voted to the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-District Team, as the organization recognized some of the top student-athletes across the country in men's soccer. Bowman became the second University of Detroit Mercy men's soccer student-athlete to earn the accolade in the past three seasons. The academic accolade was voted on by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members from across the country.

Bowman, who maintains a 3.88 GPA in business, leads the Titans with eight points in the 2016 season, while also leading the squad in assists (2), minutes played (1,399) and shots (27). He is tied for the team lead in goals (3), shots on goal (11) and is one of two players to start all 16 matches this year. He joins former University of Detroit Mercy teammate Matt Ybarra, who was a CoSIDA Academic All-District and All-America honoree in 2014, in receiving the honor.