Oct. 23, 2006

DAYTON, Ohio - A complicated set of circumstances and tiebreakers stand between Dayton and the Atlantic 10 tournament.

Here are the basics. UD and St. Joseph's need to win both of their games this weekend. Five other teams need to lose all of their games this weekend. The rest is up to the A-10 handbook and its tiebreaker procedures.

Dayton plays Richmond at 7 p.m. Friday and Charlotte at 1 p.m. Sunday. Richmond is tied for first place after beating George Washington, 1-0, Tuesday in a makeup game. Charlotte is in third place, a game behind Richmond and Saint Louis.

Oliver Condell, Antti Arst, goalie Nick Tarkany and captain Ian Mulligan will be playing their last home games as Flyers. They have, in part, helped Dayton to a 39-26-8 record during the past four seasons. The program is on pace for the best decade in school history.

The Flyers have a bit of momentum and the nation's 14th-best goalie, by save percentage, on their side. They finished a four-game, two-weekend road swing last weekend with a tie at George Washington and a win at LaSalle. Tarkany, from Miamisburg, stopped 12 of 13 shots this past weekend to jump from 30th to 14th in the NCAA's weekly rankings.

UD-Richmond Game Notes
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