Liberty to Host SIUE for Final Home Game of the Season

LYNCHBURG, VA. – The Liberty Flames men's soccer team will welcome the SIUE Cougars to Osborne Stadium for an Ohio Valley Conference match on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. The contest will be Liberty's final regular-season home game of 2025 and the last home game for Flames head coach Kelly Findley, who is retiring from coaching at the end of the 2025 season.

Saturday's contest will match the current second and third-place teams in the OVC standings. Liberty enters the match in second place with a 3-1-3 conference record and 12 points, while SUIE, the two-time defending OVC champion, enters the contest in third place with a 3-2-2 league record and 11 points.

The Flames, 7-3-5 overall, return home after tying both of their OVC matches at Eastern Illinois 2-2 this past Thursday and Western Illinois 1-1 this past Sunday. Liberty is unbeaten in its previous four games, posting a 1-0-3 record during the stretch. Three of the four matches were on the road.

SIUE, 4-8-2 overall, is unbeaten in its last five games, recording a 3-0-2 over the span. Last weekend, the Cougars shut out both Houston Christian 1-0 on Thursday and Incarnate Word 2-0 on Sunday at home.

Liberty News & Notes

Liberty will play four of its last five OVC and regular-season games on the road. The Flames began the span by tying Eastern Illinois 2-2 last Thursday and Western Illinois 1-1 on Saturday.
Saturday's match will be Liberty's final home game of the 2025 regular season. The Flames are 6-2-1 at Osborne Stadium in 2025.
Saturday's match will be head coach Kelly Findley's final home game as head coach of the Flames. Findley, who is in his seventh season at Liberty, has announced his retirement from college coaching at the end of the 2025 season.
Flames Ben Carman, Ty Conley, Sam Farner, Berkley Fuller IV, Elijah John, Lucas Kelly, Zach Lifferth, Casey McCarthy and Carlos Trott will be playing in their final home games on Saturday.
The Flames have outscored their opponents, 33-21, this season. Liberty is sixth nationally and second in the OVC in goals.
Liberty enters Saturday's contest 16^th in the country in scoring offense, averaging 2.20 goals per game.
11 Flames have scored at least one goal this season and eight have scored at least two or more goals.
Zach Lifferth leads the OVC and the Flames with eight goals. In addition, the senior leads Liberty and the OVC with 18 points (8 goals, 2 assists). Lifferth scored his eighth goal of the season in Thursday's 2-2 tie at Eastern Illinois.
Leo Conneh scored the lone goal of the game in Liberty's 1-1 tie at Western Illinois on Sunday. The forward has scored a career-high five goals and has two assists for 12 points on the year. Conneh is currently seventh in the OVC in goals scored.
Midfielder Spencer Moler scored the first goal of the season and also recorded an assist in Liberty's 2-2 tie at Eastern Illinois on Thursday. The sophomore has been a fixture in the Flames' midfield this season, starting every game.
Defender Perry Blay leads the Flames with six assists. Blay is tied for second in the OVC in assists.
Tyler Beck has played every minute in goal this season for the Flames. The sophomore has posted a 1.40 goals-against average and has a 0.687 save percentage over 1,350 minutes
Head coach Kelly Findley is in his seventh season at Liberty. He has announced his retirement from coaching at the end of the 2025 season.

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Tyler Beck

Perry Blay

Ben Carman

Ty Conley

Leo Conneh

Sam Farner

Berkley Fuller IV

Elijah John

Lucas Kelly

Zach Lifferth

Casey McCarthy

Spencer Moler

Carlos Trott