Game 13: Western Oregon at #25 Concordia (10-2-1, 7-0-1 GNAC)
Thursday, Oct. 19 / 7 pm
Portland, Ore.
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Game 14: Western Oregon vs. Saint Martin's (1-11-1, 1-6-1 GNAC)
Saturday, Oct. 21 / 1 pm
Monmouth, Ore.
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THINK PINK: Saturday's home match against Saint Martin's will be a Pink Out game for the Wolves in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the match while the WOU players will wear pink socks and headbands throughout the contest. Over a quarter of a million new breast cancer cases occur in men and women across the United States each year. To learn about how early screening, detection and research can help save lives, please visit the Susan G. Koman web site at
komen.org or the American Cancer Society at
cancer.org
MONMOUTH, Ore.—The Western Oregon University (2-8-2, 1-5-2 GNAC) women's soccer team will split time on the road and at home this week by traveling to face Concordia on Thursday before hosting Saint Martin's on Saturday. Kick off against Concordia will happen under the lights at Tuominen Yard with a 7 p.m. start while the home match agains Saint Martin's is set to begin at 1 p.m.
ABOUT CONCORDIA (10-2-1, 7-0-1 GNAC): The Cavaliers will enter Thursday's match sporting a seven-match winning streak and have climbed to No. 4 in the latest United Soccer Coaches' West Region Rankings and to No. 25 in NCAA DII… The Cavaliers have posted four straight shutout wins and have allowed just a single goal over their last eight matches… In eight GNAC contests, the Cavs have outscored their league opponents 15-to-1… Kyra Radcliffe, Sydney Van Steenberge and Gabrielle Ewing share the team lead with five goals each… Ewing also holds the team high with five assists… Anna Miller holds a 0.60 goals against average and a 8-0-1 record as the CU netminder.
ABOUT SAINT MARTIN'S (1-11-1, 1-6-1 GNAC): The Saints begin the week with back-to-back-losses to No. 3-ranked Western Washington and Seattle Pacific by a combined score of 10-0… SMU's lone win on the year was a 2-0 victory at Montana State Billings on Oct. 7… The Saints opened the year with eight straight losses before tying Central Washington, 1-1, on Sept. 30… Overall, SMU has been outscored 48-6 on the season… Lauren Allison has half of the team's goals while Tiare Kahalewai posted the lone game-winner for the club.
LAST WEEK: The Wolves allowed just one goal in over 200 minutes of action last week, but could only muster a 0-1-1 record with a 0-0 tie at Montana State Billings and a 1-0 setback at Northwest Nazarene… NNU's Hannah Holm scored in the 98th minute for the Nighthawk's win on Oct. 13
LOOKING AHEAD: The Wolves will close out the regular season next week with a road match at Seattle Pacific on Oct. 26 before hosting Simon Fraser for the season finale on Oct. 28.
OVERTIME: The Wolves have participated in overtime matches in four of their last six outings and have now gone to extra sessions in five of its 12 contests in 2017… Four of the five overtime games have advanced to the second overtime period… WOU is 0-3-2 in overtime affairs.
TOMASINO NAMED GNAC POW: With two goals in the second half against Chaminade, freshman
Alyssa Tomasini was named the GNAC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 11… Tomasini broke the stalemate in the 64th minute against the Silverswords and returned with her second goal of the day in the 81st minute to preserve the first win of the season for the Wolves.
WOU ATTACK: Seven different WOU players have scored a goal so far this season with freshman
Alyssa Tomasini and junior
Meli Cortez tied for the team lead with two goals each… The team's six assists have come from five different players…
Alexie Morris has the team lead with two assists… Tomasini, junior defender
Dana Jacobs and freshman forward
Kennedy Clay have all notched at least one goal and one assist for the Wolves this season.
IN GOAL: Sophomore
Caitlin Kastelic has played all 1153:2 minutes for the Wolves between the pipes… Kastelic holds a 1.95 goals allowed per match average and a .719 save percentage… Kastelic is fourth in the GNAC with 5.33 saves per game and third in the league with 64 total saves this season… With 1,540 minutes logged a year ago, Kastelic played all but 10 minutes in goal during her freshman campaign for the Wolves in 2016.
YOUTH MOVEMENT: The Wolves feature eight freshmen and six sophomores on the roster… Defender
Kai Mahuka represents the lone senior on the squad… Four players are in their third season in the program in
Dacia Alexander,
Chelsea Hartnett,
Morgan Roan and
Sydney Thomas.
RETURNERS: The Wolves return eight players that started at least one match a year ago, including senior defender
Kai Mahuka, who got the starting nod in 15 contests in 2016… In the midfield,
Meli Cortez made eight starts,
Dacia Alexander six and
Selene Konyn five… Defender
Kaitlin Poe started four contests on the back line... The Wolves graduated players that scored 13 of the team's 16 goals a year ago, including
Taylor Higa, who led the squad with seven goals and four assists.
GNAC PRESASON POLL: With 23 points in the poll of the nine head coaches, the Wolves were picked to finish eighth in the GNAC Preseason Coaches' Poll… The Wolves ranked higher than Saint Martin's (11 points) while being edged in points by Northwest Nazarene (26 points)… Defending national champion Western Washington earned all nine first-place votes for 91 points and was followed by Central Washington (62 points) and Concordia (58 points).
2016 RECAP: The Wolves went 5-11-1 overall in 2016… With a 2-9-1 record in GNAC play, WOU placed seventh in the league standings… WOU opened the year with back-to-back wins against George Fox and the Academy of Art… The Wolves experienced two overtime games a year ago, taking a loss at Saint Martin's on Oct. 6 and returning with a double-overtime win at Concordia on Oct. 18.
