There’s no place like home, especially when home is a multimillion-dollar stadium filled with soccer fans.

On Saturday evening, Binghamton’s men’s soccer team (10-3-0, 2-1-0 AE) will count on its home field advantage in a league contest against Maine (3-9-1, 1-2-1 AE).

Just how pronounced is Binghamton’s home field advantage?

In the new Bearcats Sports Complex, the team is a perfect 4-0. At the BSC, Binghamton has scored eight goals and allowed only one. Away, the Bearcats are 6-3, having scored nine and allowing seven. And in a streak dating back to 2005, Binghamton has not lost in its last 18 home games.

Maine has struggled in 2007, but has played a strong schedule. However, the Black Bears have been nowhere near as bad as in 2006. Last year they posted a 0-17 record and were the only NCAA D-I team to lose every game.

Maine has had trouble on both sides of the ball; the Bears have only scored nine goals but allowed 30 so far. Junior Dimitri Anastasiou has scored four of those goals, and only four players have scored at all.

Binghamton sits in second place in the America East standings, behind UMBC (2-1-1). However, the Bearcats own the tiebreaker with the Retrievers and have played one fewer game. UMBC is in first place because it has an extra point from tying Vermont this week, whereas Binghamton played a non-league game.

The Bearcats have found that every AE contest is a dogfight. Last Saturday, Binghamton lost to a middle-of-the-pack AE team, Hartford, for its first league loss in the last 10 AE games.

‘It was a bad day and we’ve moved on from it,’ BU head coach Paul Marco said.

Binghamton will try to reclaim first place at 7 p.m. Saturday at the BSC.