Men's Soccer 11/10/2025 10:26:00 AM

(21) Men's Soccer in Wichita For KCAC Tournament Championship Against (1) Oklahoma Wesleyan

OTTAWA, Kan. - The Ottawa men's soccer looks looks for their first KCAC Tournament Championship in over twenty years as they take on (1) Oklahoma Wesleyan in Wichita.

Ottawa is 13-1-6 on the season and 10-0-3 in KCAC play.
The Braves are coming off a 3-0 win over Kansas Wesleyan in the semifinals on Friday in Wichita.
In that game, Jevan-Purcell Jackson scored first in the 24th minute to give Ottawa a 1-0 lead going into halftime. Alonso Basauri doubled that lead in the 78th minute off an assist by Sam Hatswell, and Purcell-Jackson brought the game home with an 87th minute goal via an assist from Basauri. David Martinez made six saves in goal for Ottawa.
Antonio Natalucci leads Ottawa in goals with fourteen, while Alonso Basauri leads the Braves in assists with seventeen.
Oklahoma Wesleyan comes into this contest with a 17-0-3 overall record and a 12-0-1 KCAC record.
The Eagles are coming off a 2-1 semifinal win over York at on Friday in Wichita.
In that game, Oklahoma Wesleyan took a lead in the 67th minute via a goal by Adrian Mejia assisted by Nemanja Vukovic. York tied the game up in the 74th minute, but the Eagles got the game back in the 85th as Vukovic assisted Biel Campo.
Biel Campo is Oklahoma Wesleyan's leading goalscorer with 20 goals. Campo also leads the Eagles in assists with thirteen, Nemanja Vukovic has made eleven.
Ottawa and Kansas Wesleyan have met 27 times, Oklahoma Wesleyan leads the series 18-4-5.
The regular season matchup between the two squads was a 1-1 tie in Ottawa.
In that game, then-fifth ranked Oklahoma Wesleyan scored almost instantly in the second minute off the foot of Biel Campo. After 85 more minutes including two saved penalties by Oklahoma Wesleyan goalkeeper Stefan Schenk, Ottawa tied the game up as Khalil Al Harthi's shot was deflected into the net by an Eagle defender, the assist coming from a corner by Alonso Basauri.
Ottawa is 13-0-3 in games where they have scored at least one goal.
The Braves are 13-0-1 when they have scored at least two goals.
Ottawa is 6-0-2 in shutouts, and 5-0-3 when allowing just one goal.
Ottawa is on a sixteen game unbeaten streak winning the last four and tying three in that stretch.
Both teams are 1-0-0 in neutral site games, Ottawa is 6-1-3 away from home, Oklahoma Wesleyan is 8-0-2 in such games.
Alonso Basauri's seventeen assists puts him second in the NAIA in that category.
Ottawa and Oklahoma Wesleyan have met three times in the KCAC Tournament: in the semifinals in 2015, and in the championship game in both 2023 and 2024. The Eagles have won all three, and all three have been played at neutral sites.
Ottawa has won the KCAC Tournament just once, doing so in 2004.
Ottawa is playing in their fifth overall and third consecutive KCAC Tournament championship.
Since the KCAC Tournament moved to the Stryker Sports Complex in 2018 for the semifinals and championship, Ottawa is 3-3-0 in those rounds, and 0-2-0 in the championship.
All three wins at Stryker for Ottawa have been over Kansas Wesleyan.
Ottawa is searching for their first win over Oklahoma Wesleyan since 2003, a 3-2 win at home for the Braves.
This is Ottawa's first ranked-vs.-ranked matchup since at least 1971.
Both Ottawa and Oklahoma Wesleyan have qualified for the NAIA National Tournament: Oklahoma Wesleyan as the KCAC regular season champion and Ottawa either by winning the KCAC Tournament or by being the regular season runners-up.
This will be Ottawa's fifth NAIA National Tournament appearance and the second in three years. Oklahoma Wesleyan has booked their ticket to the big dance for the fourteenth straight and fourteenth overall times, the Eagles earning a bid for the tournament in every season since 2011.