Thomasville, GA | Championship soccer Continues for the Night Hawks in the Southern States Athletic Conference Montgomery, AL on Wednesday as the Thomas Night faces Mobile at the Emory Folmar YMCA.  #4 Thomas (10-3-4, 6-2-2 SSAC) comes into this match as an underdog against #1 Mobile (12-2-2, 9-0-1 SSAC).  The Rams are ranked #7 in NAIA, while the Night Hawks are receiving votes in the NAIA polls.

Under interim head coach Billy Jeffery, the Night Hawks are still unbeaten, having advanced in the SSAC tournament, by way of a shootout over Faulkner, at home, on this past Friday.  After playing to a 2-2 draw through regulation, and neither team able to muster a goal during the two extra periods, the Night Hawks scored four goals, compared to three, to claim the right to advance. 

Friday's draw raised the unbeaten streak to nine, with Thomas going 7-0-2.  Two Thomas trends ended in the opening round match against Faulkner.  Thomas gave up a goal during the first half of a match for the first time since September.  Also, Thomas allowed more than one goal in a match for the first time since September.  During their streak, Thomas shut out five of their opponents and did not give up more than one goal in any match.  During the unbeaten streak, Thomas only allowed 0.375 goals per match, while scoring 2.25 goals while per match.  The run for Thomas consumed the entire month of October.

The Night Hawks have a total of four ties on the season.  The first tie of the season occurred against Mobile, at nil-nil on September 16 at the TU Soccer complex.  In the first period both teams' defenses would hold their own and keep either offense from scoring. Thomas would tally two shots compared to Mobile's one. Neither would record a shot on goal in the 1st.  In the second period both teams' offenses would desperately try to find the goal that would ignite their team. As a result, Mobile would take six shots with one on goal, and Thomas would take five with three on goal. However both teams' goalies would remain perfect on the day. Thomas' Jorge Gonzalez would record one save, while Mobiles Ty Turner would record three. This resulted in a 0-0 draw.  The Night Hawks finished the day with a total of seven shots with three on goal and a total of three corner kicks. The Rams recorded seven total shots with one on goal and one corner kick. 

Mobile enters the match on a 10-match winning steak, and are unbeaten in their last 13 matches.  

Mobile and Thomas are right behind each other, offensively, with points.   Mobile has totaled 102 points, with 39 goals.  Thomas has accumulated 83 points, with 31 goals.  Defensively, Thomas has given up 0.93 goals per game, while Mobile has given up 0.63 goals per game.  Mobile takes 6.1 corners per game and Thomas takes 4.4 corners per game.

The Rams goalkeeper, Ty Turner, has a save percentage of .786, good for third in the conference.  Jorge Gonzalez has the fifth best save percentage, in the conference at .738.  Turner has allowed nine goals, good for fourth in the conference, and owns the third best goals against average at 0.61.  After this past Friday's match, Gonzalez dropped from fourth to fifth with a goals against average at 0.85.

The action for Thomas is set to begin at 5:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday.  The match will be a part of a quadruple header of Men's/Women's post-season action in Montgomery.  The Night Hawk women will face William Carey at Noon EST.  The contest will be streamed live at www.tunighthawks.com. The entire tournament will be available https://ssacsports.tv (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GAME IS PAY-PER-VIEW ON BOTH SITES).  For up-to-date information on this game and other TU Athletics, visit http://www.TUNightHawks.com. Stay up-to-date with news, scores, photos, game summaries, play-by play, and feature stories of your TU men's soccer team by following them via Twitter at @NightHawksMSocc.

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