Final Score: VCU 0, George Mason 0 
Location: Richmond, Va. (Sports Backers Stadium) 
Records: VCU 2-1-2 (1-0-1 A-10), George Mason 0-3-3 (0-0-3 A-10)
 
 
The Short Story: The VCU freshman pair of William Hitchcock and Johnathan Kanagwa made the first starts of their careers, but the team was unable to find a winning goal against George Mason on Saturday afternoon. 
 
 
QUICK FACTS 
 

• Mario Sequeira recorded a season-high three saves for the second game in a row
• Simon Fitch, Jonathan Kanagwa and Nolan Coetzee all fired shots on target 
• Oquin Robinson, and Elton Quintanilla tallied shots, but both missed the mark
• VCU managed five shots in total compared to George Mason's 11
• The Rams kept their second clean sheet in a row

 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: 
 

• In the 19^th minute Kent Harrison placed a shot directly in the upper left corner of the net, but Sequeira was equal to it, and kept the game scoreless.
• VCU's best chance of the game came off of a free kick played short to Quintanilla in the 34^th minute. The freshman turned and fired a shot that was denied only be the crossbar and deflected out of play. 
• Seconds later, Kanagwa rifled a shot low and on target that was saved by George Mason's Jackson Lee. 

 
 
HEAD COACH DAVID GIFFARD 
 
"Each time we seem to find a way for us to play, we lose some key pieces that allow us to do what we were having some success with. We gutted through the other night at Davidson and found a goal and that was a really good result for us. Today we subtracted a few more guys and tried to adjust accordingly with a walk through training session in a downpour in standing water yesterday and I have to take the blame for not preparing is well enough to do so. I was proud of the guys for trying their best to make those adjustments on the fly today, but we were obviously not as comfortable do doing as we would have liked. Mason is a well-organized and well coached team, they forced us to try and break them down and carry the game and quite honestly we just weren't able to do so effectively enough without the types of players who function well in those spaces between the lines. It will be important for us to continue to learn and work together to solve how we can play in order to take advantage of the number of good players that we do have.
 
 
UP NEXT:
 
The Rams will return to Sports Backers Stadium on Wednesday, March 24 for a matchup with George Washington at 7 p.m.