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OPENING TOUCH: Dixie State (6-7-1/5-4-0 RMAC) begins its final road swing of the 2019 season this weekend with its last regular season trip to Colorado as members of the RMAC. DSU opens the trip on Friday in Alamosa for a match at Adams State (1-10-1/1-8-1 RMAC) beginning at 4 p.m., followed by a date at CSU-Pueblo (5-9-0/5-5-0 RMAC) on Sunday afternoon at 12 noon. Live stats and streaming video information for both matches can be found HERE.

DIXIE STATE VS. THIS WEEK'S OPPONENTS: Dixie State is 1-0-1 against both Adams State and CSU-Pueblo all-time, which includes victories over each opponent at Trailblazer Stadium last season. DSU came away with a 3-1 result vs. ASU (10/21), which came after a 3-2 double-overtime triumph over CSU-P (10/19) two days earlier.
    Prior to last season's RMAC matches, DSU posted draws against both sides, including a 1-1 tie vs. ASU in St. George (9/14/09) during the 2009 season, and a matching 1-1 draw vs. CSU-P (9/4/11) in a match played in Phoenix in 2011.

COACHING STAFF: Head Coach Jonny Broadhead (Colorado State-Pueblo, 2004; 25-21-3 overall) is in his third season on the Trailblazer sideline after guiding DSU to a 7-9-2 mark last season, which included an eighth-place 5-7-2 mark (17 pts) in their RMAC debut.
    Broadhead came to DSU from Utah Valley University, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach for two years before being elevated to a full-time assistant position prior to the start of the 2016 season. Before his time at UVU, Broadhead served a two-year stint as assistant coach at Colorado Mesa, where he helped lead the Mavericks to an RMAC Tournament championship in 2013.
    Broadhead is joined on the sideline again this season by former DSU standout netminder Bradley Trella, who is in his third season as an assistant coach and will work with the goalkeepers.

LAST TIME OUT: Dixie State closed out its final long homestand of the 2019 season on a sour note as the Trailblazers found themselves on the short end of two results last weekend. DSU saw a two-goal second half lead disappear in a disappointing 4-3 2OT loss to Fort Lewis this past Friday night, which was followed by a 1-0 setback vs. Colorado Mesa last Sunday afternoon.

THINGS TIGHTENING UP IN RMAC RACE: Dixie State enters the penultimate weekend of the 2019 season tied with CSU-Pueblo for the sixth and final spot in the 2019 RMAC Tournament at 5-5-0. No. 18 Colorado School of Mines (8-0-2) owns a one-game lead on No. 25 Westminster College (7-1-2) on the RMAC table, followed by Regis (7-3-0) in third, Colorado Mesa (6-2-2) in fourth and Fort Lewis (5-4-1) in fifth.
    The top-six teams advance on to the 2019 RMAC Tournament, which will be held Nov. 7-15, with the winner of the tourney earning the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA South Central Regionals.

LAST SEASON IN THE RMAC: After joining the RMAC in 2018, the 2019 season will mark the second and final season the Trailblazers will be a competing member of the conference. In 2020, Dixie State will begin its transition to NCAA Division I status and will become a new member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

2019 TEAM NOTES: Freshman MF Guglielmo Bianchi scored his team-leading sixth goal of the season, and his fifth goal in the last nine matches overall, just 11:17 into play in last Friday's loss vs. Fort Lewis ... fellow freshman John Joseph has also found the back of the net in five of his last nine starts, including his fifth goal of the year that came five-plus minutes after the Bianchi goal vs. FLC ... Joseph, who was named RMAC OPOW this past Sept. 30, netted his first collegiate GWG in the Regis road win (9/27), and scored one goal and assisted on another in the road win at UCCS (9/29).
    Senior forward Moises Medina had his boot on all three goals in the FLC loss, including his team-leading fourth and fifth assists of the year on the Bianchi and Joseph goals ... Medina then collected his fifth goal of the season, and the 28th goal of his storied four-year career, on a penalty kick right at the 68:00 mark of the match ... Medina pulled into a tie atop DSU's career goals list with Jordan Roylance, who also scored 28 goals over his four years in a DSU kit from 2009-12.
    Medina is already DSU's career leader in assists (21) and points (77, 28G/21A), and he pulled into a tie with Roylance atop the program's game-winning goal list with his 11th-career GWG in the 3-1 win at UCCS (9/29) ... Medina's five goals this season have come over his last nine matches, including his third-career hat trick in DSU's 5-2 result over MSU Denver (9/22) ... his hat trick was just the fifth in program history and the first since the senior achieved the feat twice in the 2017 season (at UCCS 9/11/17, vs. Point Loma 10/21/17) ... Roylance accounted for DSU's other two hat tricks, both of which came during the 2009 season.
    Sophomores Daniel Brubaker and Matt Lockwood and freshman Logan Beus have three assists apiece through 14 matches, with Beus joining the group after he recorded his third dime on the Joseph goal vs. FLC last Friday.  
    In fact, you could say there is equal distribution in goals and assists (20 assists total on 22 goals) on this year's club as nine different players have at least one dime ... coincidentally, nine different players have also scored goals through 14 matches as well.
     Senior netminder Zach Nielson collected win #27 in the SDM shutout result (10/11) - his ninth-career clean sheet overall, which pulled him to within three shutouts away from passing former DSU keeper Tyler Walters (11, 2010-13) for second place all-time on that list ... Nielson has 210 career saves to his credit over his four years at DSU and he is just the second GK in program history with 200-plus career saves (Walters, 298, 2010-13) ... Nielson stopped a career-high 10 shots in the FLC road win (10/6), which tied him with former DSU keeper Spencer Anderson (10 vs. Cal Poly Pomona, 2014) for the second-most saves in a single match in program history ... Nielson leads the RMAC in both saves (78 - 3rd-nationally) and saves/match (5.57 spm - 24th nationally) ... Dixie State is also ranked 30th-nationally in save percentage (.804)

UP NEXT: Dixie State will wrap up the 2019 regular season next weekend with a pair of matches, the first coming at on the road at in-state rival No. 25 Westminster College in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. DSU will then return home for a "Senior Day" match vs. Colorado Christian inside Trailblazer Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 1:30 p.m.