HIGH POINT, N.C.—High Point University men's soccer opens the 2018 regular season this Friday, traveling to Spartanburg, S.C. to duel with hosts Wofford at 7 p.m.

The Panthers enter their opener with the Terriers as favorites to repeat as Big South champions after recording the program's second regular season championship in the previous campaign. HPU received seven first-place votes in this year's postseason poll, while rising senior defender Rashid Tetteh was designated the Big South Preseason Defensive Player of the Year earlier this month. 
 
High Point (0-0-0) at Wofford (0-0-0)
When: Friday, August 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Spartanburg, S.C. | Snyder Field
All-Time Series: Wofford leads, 5-4
Last Meeting: Loss 3-2, on Sept. 5, 2008 in Harrisonburg, Va.
Live Stats: SideArm
 
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On the Panthers
• HPU returns eight starters and 18 letterwinners from last year's championship squad, including four First Team All-Conference selections
• Keeper Keegan Meyer returns for 2018 after setting a program record in GAA (0.73), and recording eight clean sheets
• Leading goal scorer Jonathan Bolanos will suit up for his junior year after seven tallies in 2017
• First Team All-Conference selections Rashid Tetteh and Johnny Fenwick will anchor the back line for Big South Coach of the Year EJ O'Keeffe, as the pair logged a combined 3,525 minutes, while helping their team to hold opponents to a goal or less in 17 competitions last year
• The Panthers faced some top competition in this year's preseason, dropping a pair of 2-0 decisions to a Charlotte side that reached last year's C-USA final and a UNCW squad that advanced to the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship tournament
 
On the Terriers
• Wofford is coming off one of its worst seasons in the past decade, after producing just four wins in 2017
• With 25 returners and four of their top-five point-getters coming back for 2018, the Terriers were recently ranked fifth overall in this year's SoCon Preseason Coaches Poll
• With six goals and 13 points overall, junior midfielder Lucas Altman is Wofford's top offensive producer from last season, and was the lone Terrier to earn Preseason All-Conference nods
 
Series Notes:
• High Point currently trails its all-time series with Wofford with a 4-5 record, but has not played the Terriers in the regular season since 2008
• HPU has not lost a season opener since 2014, and has not lost a road opener since 2013
• The Panthers are 25-26-2 against current Southern Conference members, but see that record improve to 12-1-1 against those same teams when looking exclusively at the previous nine years  
 
Coming Up Next:
• The Panthers get back on the road this Monday to faceoff with Davidson at 7 p.m.
• HPU is 2-3-3 against the Bobcats all-time, but is unbeaten against the side in their last three meetings (1-0-2)
 
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