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Men’s Soccer Plays at Stonehill on Wednesday in Non-League Finale

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men's soccer plays at Stonehill College in its non-league finale for the regular season on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6:00 p.m. (NEC Front Row) at W.B. Mason Stadium in Easton, Massachusetts as the Crimson enters the match with a three-game unbeaten run, including a 4-2 win over Brown in its last outing.

What to Know: Harvard Highlights

  • Harvard has posted an undefeated 1-0-2 mark over its last three games with a draw against No. 2 Vermont (0-0), draw with Yale (1-1), and win over Brown (4-2).
  • The Crimson currently stands in a tie for fifth place in the Ivy League standings with four points, just one point back of fifth-place Penn (five points). Princeton (12 points), Cornell (nine points), and Dartmouth (six points) hold the top three spots in the league table.
  • First-year forward Adam Poliakov earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 20 after scoring a brace in Harvard's 4-2 win over Brown (Oct. 18). He netted his first two collegiate goals against the Bears.
  • Closing out a three-game homestand, first-year Adam Poliakov scored a pair of goals in the second half, and first-years Alejandro Palacio and Lucas Benuce Sarvas each netted a goal in the first half as Harvard beat Brown, 4-2, on Oct. 18 at Jordan Field behind a season-high four goals.
  • Junior Andreas Savva leads Harvard in points (nine) and goals (three) on the season. He stands ninth in the Ivy League in goals (three), points (nine), and shots (25). Savva posted a career-high five points on a career-best two goals and one assist vs. Cal (Sept. 10). He also netted a goal vs. Boston University (Sept. 30).
  • Junior Dylan Tellado ranks second on the Crimson in points (seven), goals (two), and assists (three) on the year. Tellado posted a point in three straight matches from Sept. 5-13. He notched three points on a goal and an assist vs. Cal (Sept. 10) and netted a goal at PC (Sept. 5).
  • Junior Ben Kelly has posted six points on the year on a goal and a team-high four assists. He ranks sixth in the Ivy League in assists (four). He posted a career-high two assists vs. Cal (Sept. 10) and netted a goal vs. UNH (Sept. 16).
  • Sophomore Phoenix Wooten has registered six points on the year behind one goal and a team-best four assists. He ranks sixth in the Ivy League in assists (four) and second in the league in assists in Ivy only games (two). Wooten posted a career-high two assists vs. Brown (Oct. 18).
  • Senior goalkeeper Lucian Wood has posted a 1.00 GAA, 0.774 save percentage, 24 total saves, and two shutouts over seven starts on the season. Wood has earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors twice (Sept. 8, Oct. 13) on the year. He ranks second in the Ivy League in saves per game (3.43) and fourth in both GAA (1.00) and save percentage (0.774). Wood tallied a season-high seven saves in the clean sheet at Providence (Sept. 5), posted a shutout vs. No. 2 Vermont (Oct. 7), and made five saves vs. Belmont (Aug. 29).
  • Senior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil has posted two shutouts in five starts this season. For the year, he has notched a 1.00 GAA and 0.722 save percentage. MacNeil made a season-high five saves vs. Princeton (Sept. 27).
  • Harvard stands as one of five Ivy League programs in the top 100 of the NCAA RPI in a group that includes No. 1 Princeton, No. 32 Cornell, No. 47 Brown, No. 62 Harvard, and No. 79 Penn.
  • Playing in the second game of a three-match homestand, senior defender Ethan Veghte scored an equalizer in the 79th minute to counter a goal from the Bulldogs in the 74th minute as Harvard battled Yale in a 1-1 draw on Oct. 11 at Jordan Field.
  • Harvard became the first team in 2025 to post a shutout against No. 2 Vermont as the Crimson and Catamounts played to a 0-0 draw on Oct. 7 at Jordan Field. The Crimson posted the clean sheet as Vermont remained undefeated.
  • Over a five-game stretch from Sept. 5-23, Harvard posted an undefeated 3-0-2 mark and outscored its opponents 7-2 over that stretch, including three shutouts. During the streak, Harvard topped Providence (2-0), California (3-1), and New Hampshire (1-0) alongside draws against Connecticut (1-1) and Northeastern (0-0).
  • Harvard trails Stonehill in the all-time series, 0-1-0, with the Skyhawks taking the first meeting between the two programs in 2024.
  • Stonehill brings a 4-8-1 overall record and 2-2-1 NEC mark into Wednesday's matchup. Shane Fonseca leads the team with seven points on a team-best three goals and one assist. 

What to Know: Outside the Lines

  • First-year Lucas Benuce Sarvas is interested in attending law school following graduation.
  • Sophomore Alexander Castel served as a junior summer analyst at AFIG Funds in Dakar, Senegal during the summer of 2025.
  • First-year Mikey Cortellessa plays the piano. His grandparents are from the Philippines.
  • Senior Bobby Cupps is interested in the AI and defense industries. In the summer of 2025, he interned with Epirus, working on their high-powered microwave drone defense product. His brother, Christopher Cupps, signed a homegrown player contract with MLS side Chicago Fire FC in February 2025 at the age of 16.
  • Sophomore Nayan Das conducted physics research at Harvard during the summer of 2025. He can play the piano.
  • Junior Yuta Hata ranked in the top 500 in the world in TETRO.IO, a multi-player Tetris game. He is a member of the Harvard Japan Club and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. Hata spent two months in Hong Kong during the summer of 2024 completing an internship that involved replicating and simulating robotic arms virtually.
  • Junior Ben Kelly is interested in attending law school while also pursuing a career as an A&R in the music industry following graduation. Kelly currently makes and produces music, while also working as a DJ. In the summer of 2025, he worked as an A&R at a music label called Oakstreet Media. Kelly traces his family lineage on his mother's side through the Lin Dynasty in China over more than 35 generations.
  • Senior Rustin Khosravi served as a summer analyst with The Raine Group, a financial services firm, in the summer of 2025.
  • Sophomore Tim Langenbahn is a member of the Harvard's German Student Association, the Harvard Undergraduate Woodbridge International Society, and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. He has played the piano since age four.
  • First-year Sophian Lovato has spent time living in Milan, Italy and can speak English, French, and Italian. His great uncle, Vittorio, played for AC Milan.
  • Senior Cullen MacNeil is writing a senior thesis on applying statistical methods and reinforcement learning techniques to cryptocurrency markets. MacNeil is hoping to run the Boston Marathon in spring 2026 and the New York City Marathon in fall 2026. He served as the team's Student-Athlete Wellness Leader (SAWL).
  • First-year Maxwell Mobray has competed for the Bermuda National Team and can play the piano.
  • Senior Nicholas Nyquist started a non-profit in Kenya and knows the first 200 digits of pi from memory. He has interned with venture capital and investment banking firms in both Norway and the U.S.
  • Senior Juho Ojanen plans to work in consulting for McKinsey & Company following graduation after interning with the organization in the summer of 2025. A member of the Harvard Undergraduate Nordic Club, his second name, Valo, means "light" in Finnish.
  • Senior Marcos Ojea Quintana is interested in attending medical school following graduation. A member of Harvard's Athlete Medical Mentorship Program and Harvard Latinos in Health Careers. During the summer of 2025, he studied for the MCAT and conducted research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Proud of his Argentinian roots, he has a dog named after Lionel Messi.
  • First-year Alejandro Palacio was born in Madrid, Spain and lived in Bogota, Columbia until the age of eight. He speaks both English and Spanish.
  • First-year Adam Poliakov can solve a Rubik's Cube.
  • Junior Andreas Savva has traveled to 26 countries.
  • Junior Will Sherwood has volunteered with Feeding America and the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. He has also served as a Quantitative Analyst Intern with the Los Angeles Dodgers, using sabermetrics to analyze player data.
  • Sophomore Xavier Tanyi grew up in South Africa and speaks French. He is a member of the Harvard French Club and Engineering without Borders.
  • Junior Dylan Tellado is interested in attending graduate school to pursue a master's degree in computer science or machine learning. During the summer of 2025, he interned as a Machine Learning Engineer with General Motors, working on software for autonomous vehicles. Tellado completed an internship with Nashville SC of Major League Soccer as a data scientist and software engineer in the summer of 2024.
  • Senior Ethan Veghte worked for an AI startup called Sana Labs in the summer of 2025. His mother, Julie, won a national title with the Harvard women's lacrosse team in 1990.
  • First-year Christo Velikin can speak five languages.
  • Senior Matus Vician, a nominee for the Allstate NACDA Fall Good Works Team, served as a volunteer with Coach for College in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam during the summer of 2023. Vician has acted as a researcher at Harvard's Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab and worked as a research assistant at The Center for Advanced Orthopedic Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
  • Junior Nicholas Willen is involved in Harvard's Black Men's Forum and the Harvard Undergraduate Quantum Computing Association. He is working for a quantum engineering (computing) lab on the Harvard campus during the fall of 2025. He served as a product management intern with Aetion during the summer of 2025, building healthcare software for conducting analysis of real world data. Willen's grandmother, Frances Conway, desegregated Wells College.
  • When senior Lucian Wood was in eighth grade, he saw the 2009 Ivy League champion men's soccer team photo on the wall in Pinocchio's in Harvard Square, leading him to want to eventually represent the team himself. Wood worked as a paralegal intern at Davis Polk, a law firm in New York City, in the summer of 2025. He produced and directed a short film titled "I See You" in the summer of 2024 and is now submitting the film to festivals.

Next Up

Harvard plays at Columbia on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
 
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Alexander Castel

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Bobby Cupps

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Nayan Das

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6' 0"
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Yuta Hata

#22 Yuta Hata

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Ben Kelly

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Government
Rustin Khosravi

#2 Rustin Khosravi

D
5' 10"
Senior
Economics
Tim Langenbahn

#13 Tim Langenbahn

D
6' 1"
Sophomore
Cullen MacNeil

#1 Cullen MacNeil

GK
6' 5"
Senior
Statistics
Nicholas Nyquist

#9 Nicholas Nyquist

F
6' 2"
Senior
Economics
Juho Ojanen

#14 Juho Ojanen

M
6' 1"
Senior
Economics

Players Mentioned

Alexander Castel

#4 Alexander Castel

6' 1"
Sophomore
D
Bobby Cupps

#19 Bobby Cupps

6' 1"
Senior
Physics and Statistics
F
Nayan Das

#23 Nayan Das

6' 0"
Sophomore
D
Yuta Hata

#22 Yuta Hata

6' 0"
Junior
Computer Science and Statistics
F
Ben Kelly

#8 Ben Kelly

6' 2"
Junior
Government
F
Rustin Khosravi

#2 Rustin Khosravi

5' 10"
Senior
Economics
D
Tim Langenbahn

#13 Tim Langenbahn

6' 1"
Sophomore
D
Cullen MacNeil

#1 Cullen MacNeil

6' 5"
Senior
Statistics
GK
Nicholas Nyquist

#9 Nicholas Nyquist

6' 2"
Senior
Economics
F
Juho Ojanen

#14 Juho Ojanen

6' 1"
Senior
Economics
M