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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The 16th ranked Slippery Rock University men's soccer team will host Millersville University in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday at 1 p.m. at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.

Tickets: The NCAA mandates the prices for the tournament at $7 for adults, $3 for students with ID and $3 for children ages 2-12. Children under age two will be admitted free.

Live Coverage: The Slippery Rock sports information office will provide live statistics, live audio and live video streams of the game at the links above. The video stream will be hosted by WSRU-TV, the student TV station. Live updates will also be available throughout the game on the official Twitter feed for Slippery Rock athletics (@Rock_Athletics).

Regional Picture: Slippery Rock is the No. 1 seed in the region and Millersville is the No. 4 seed. No. 3 Mercyhurst plays at No. 2 Notre Dame (Ohio) Sunday. The winners of the two games will advance to the Sweet 16, which will take place Thursday or Friday at the highest remaining seed.

National Rankings: Slippery Rock moved up eight spots in this week's NCAA Division II national rankings to No. 16. Millersville is unranked. The rankings are the final regular season rankings of the year.

Records: Slippery Rock enters the game with an overall record of 13-3-3, which does not reflect the extra win SRU was granted by the PSAC due to a vacated West Chester win during the regular season. The Rock is coming off a 3-2 win at Mercyhurst last Saturday in double overtime in the PSAC title game.

Millersville enters the game with an overall record of 12-5-2 and is coming off a 0-0 tie against Slippery Rock last Friday in the PSAC semifinals.

Scouting The Rock: Slippery Rock is outscoring opponents 40-17 and outshooting the opposition 291-275.

Stephen Donnelly leads the team with eight goals and two assists, while Dom Francis has six goals and four assists and Michael Ramirez has added six goals and one assist. Zach Hall has four goals, all game-winners, and three assists, as does Declan Brennan.

Joshua Gray leads the team and ranks seventh in the nation and first among all defenders in assists with 11 and also has one goal. Brandon Chiu has three goals and two assists to cap the top scorers.

SRU has received outstanding goalkeeping from the duo of Chris Zier and Joe Agerskow, who have split time between the posts. Zier has won nine-of-11 starts for SRU and owns a 9-3 record with a 0.97 goals against average and an .857 save percentage. Agerskow has started the last three games and has not lost this season. He owns a 4-0-3 record with a 0.70 goals against average and an .870 save percentage.

Streaking: The Rock has been defeated in just seven games dating back to the beginning of last season, going unbeaten in 33-of-41 games. SRU is the only team in the PSAC to post an unblemished record against non-conference teams in each of the last two years.

Rock in the Playoffs: Slippery Rock won its seventh PSAC title in school history last weekend and is making its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2009, when the team was also the No. 1 seed. SRU has never advanced passed the Round of 16 in the Division II Tournament.

Scouting the Marauders: Millersville has one of the most potent offenses in the region and is outscoring opponents 46-21 and outshooting the opposition 321-200. The Marauders were shut out only once this season and it was in their last game against Slippery Rock.

Andrew Dukes leads the team with 11 goals and six assists to pace five players that have double figure point totals. Jaime Vazquez has nine goals and four assists, Jeramey Robbins has six goals and eight assists, Ben Johnston has three goals and a team-high 13 assists and Zack Caracciolo has four goals and three assists.

Bran Benzing has started 18 games in goal this season and is 12-4-2 with a 0.95 goals against average and a .764 save percentage. He has recorded seven shutouts on the year.

Marauders in the Playoffs: Millersville is making its fourth trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last seven years. The Marauders have won the regional title twice in their last three trips to the playoffs and have reached as far as the NCAA semifinals. 

Series: Millersville owns a 14-10-2 advantage in the all-time series, but Slippery Rock is 8-5-2 since 2004. The Rock own the most recent win in the series and the teams have split the last nine meetings 4-4-1.

Rivalry Heating Up: This is the third time these two teams will meet this season and both of the previous games had epic finishes. Slippery Rock earned a 4-3 comeback win in the regular season meeting at SRU by scoring the tying goal with 1:31 to play and the winner with just eight seconds left. In the next meeting, the teams played to a 0-0 tie in the PSAC semifinals and SRU advanced with a 4-3 edge in the penalty kick shootout last Friday at Mercyhurst.

Last Time: (Box Score) Joe Agerskow made one kick save and another Millersville shooter hit the post in the shootout as The Rock prevailed 4-3 in penalty kicks in the PSAC semifinal.

Benzing made a save on the first SRU shooter, but the next four all converted, capped by a Ryan Lutke goal that sealed it.

The teams were nearly dead even in every statistical category. Both finished with 17 total shots, five shots on goal and five corner kicks.

Head Coaches: Michael Bonelli is in his fourth season at the helm of the Slippery Rock program. Bonelli has posted a record of 42-22-12 during his SRU tenure. He has led the program to three berths in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoffs and two appearances in the title game.

Steve Widdowson is in his seventh season as the head coach at Millersville, where he has led the team to the PSAC playoffs in every season. He owns a record of 92-40-9, which is the best winning percentage in Millersville history.

Up Next: The winner of Saturday's game will play the winner of the Notre Dame-Mercyhurst game in the Round of 16 either Thursday or Friday next week at the highest remaining seed. If SRU wins Saturday, it will host the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8 next weekend.