With eight saves on Saturday Mroz raised his save percentage to 72.6% and brought his saves per game average to 3.75. Mroz now leads the Valley in saves per game while being second in the conference in total saves with 45 across 12 games and 990 minutes in net.
Louisville comes into Wednesday’s match with a 5-4-3 record. The Cardinals are coming off a close loss to No. 12 Clemson on Friday as Louisville is still looking for its first win in ACC action. The Cardinals are led on the pitch by senior forward Gage Guerra with six goals and two assists in 11 matches this season. Guerra is six points ahead of Louisville’s other offensive leaders midfielder Leon Kondic, midfielder Sander Roed, and forward Ethan Subachan who all have eight points.
Senior forward Edward Mendy (Overland Park, Kan. / Blue Valley West HS) began a goal scoring streak on Saturday with his second straight tally. In the 61st minute of the Aces 3-1 win over UIC, Mendy found himself alone with the ball on the right side and worked around two Flames defenders and buried his second goal of the year into the top left corner of the net from the seven. Mendy was also the secondary assist on senior forward Nacho Diaz Barragan’s (Almeria, Spain) game-winning goal in the 48th minute for five points on the season in only two games.
