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Big Week for USL Championship Trio

Bradley Soccer's three former players in USL Championship are in the middle of a big week

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Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Soccer 6/11/2019 2:07:00 PM

While two former Bradley Soccer players helped their teams to noteworthy wins in the USL Championship league, a third is preparing to face a Major League Soccer squad in fourth-round action of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

Braves in the Pros

Player	Years at BU	Current Club	League
Brandon Barnes	2017	Forward Madison FC	USL League One
Bryan Gaul	2008-11	FSV Zwickau	3. Liga (Germany)
Jochen Graf	2009-12	Memphis 901 FC	USL Championship
Logan Ketterer	2012-16	El Paso Locomotive FC	USL Championship
Wojceich Wojcik	2010-13	Hartford Athletic	USL Championship

Former Bradley forward Jochen Graf will lead USL Championship squad Memphis 901 FC into a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup fourth-round home match against Major League Soccer's Orlando City SC Wednesday night at Mike Rose Soccer Complex. Graf played a key role in Memphis 901 FC advancing deep into the national championship event by scoring a pair of goals in a 4-0 win against former Bradley teammate Wojciech Wojcik's Hartford Athletic squad in the third round May 29.

Wednesday's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup game between Memphis 901 FC and Orlando City SC is slated for a 7:30 p.m. CT kickoff and will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Goalkeeper Logan Ketterer, a third-year pro, helped El Paso Locomotive FC extend its USL Championship unbeaten streak to eight games (5-0-3) by posting his sixth clean sheet of the season Saturday in a 3-0 victory against LA Galaxy II at El Paso's Southwest University Park. The former Bradley netminder now is tied for second in all of USL Championship with his six shutouts this season.

With Ketterer manning the pipes for all of its 13 league games to date, El Paso Locomotive FC (6-2-5, 23 points) has climbed into a second-place tie in the Western Conference standings, just two points behind conference-leading New Mexico United (6-2-7, 25 points), which has played two more matches than the three teams nipping at its heals. Locomotive also has climbed to 10th in the 36-team USL Championship power rankings. El Paso returns to action Saturday by visiting Tulsa Roughnecks FC, a 7:30 p.m. CT match available for viewing on ESPN+.

The 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, Wojcik helped Hartford Athletic rally for a 2-1 victory Saturday against Saint Louis FC by assisting the tying goal in the 27th minute.

After suffering through a 10-match winless streak (0-9-1) to start the season, Hartford Athletic (2-9-3, 9 points) now is unbeaten (2-0-2) in its last four games, climbing into the USL Championship playoffs race. Hartford is now just four points behind a trio of Eastern Conference teams tied for the 10th-place playoffs cutoff. Coming off the bench for each of the final nine games of Hartford Athletic's 10-game winless streak, Wojcik now has started each of the four games in the team's current league unbeaten streak.

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