CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rounding out a season-opening five-match road swing, the Oakland Golden Grizzlies will begin Horizon League play by squaring off with the Cleveland State Vikings at the Krenzler Soccer Field on Saturday, September 9 at 7 p.m.

Narrowly dropping a 1-0 decision to the Loyola Chicago Ramblers in their last action on September 4, the Golden Grizzlies will enter play at 0-3-1 in 2023, while Cleveland State, the defending Horizon League champion, is 1-2-1.

Oakland was picked to finish third in the 2023 Under Armour Horizon League Preseason Poll and the Vikings were projected to make it back-to-back titles by the conference's head coaches.

Through the first four matches on the young season, freshman Donavan Phillip leads the Golden Grizzlies with three points and junior Luke Benford and fellow freshman Andrew Darakdjian have both chipped in two.

Senior Alex Flowers has drawn three starts in goal and tallied 22 saves, with graduate student Finn Jurak receiving the nod in the other contest against the UIC Flames on September 1.

For Cleveland State, seniors Bojan Kolevski and Albert Portas are tied for the team lead with six points apiece and classmate Pablo Kawecki has registered three.

Junior goalkeeper Ryan Poling, who hails from Avon just outside Cleveland, has started two of the Vikings' first four matches and will enter Saturday with five saves on the year.

Saturday's action will not be streamed on ESPN+, but Live Stats are available here.