PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women’s soccer team is off to another hot start this current year, going 4-1-0 aided by the only blemish a one-goal loss on the way against a team ranked 11th in this week’s National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) nationwide poll. The Quakers desire to keep the positive energy going on the weekend, as they host VCU on Friday evening before planing a trip to Towson for a Sunday matinee.
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The Series with VCU
The Quakers in addition to Rams opened up their show this past year in Richmond, Va., and completed in a 0-0 draw.
About VCU
The Rams (1-6-0) launched the season with a 4-2 win over Old Dominion, but they are winless since then and also have maybe not scored in this stretch. Four associated with six losses have-been 1-0 choices, with two of the going overtime. Kelly Graves had a target and an assist because orifice win, while Megan Dell, Maddi Santo and Sharon Wojcik additionally scored. In-goal, Emma Kruse has actually played every minute and boasts a 1.56 goals-against average and a .796 save percentage.
The Series with Towson
The Quakers and also the Tigers have played two times before - when in 1992, and most recently this season. Penn won that 1992 meeting in Maryland, 3-1, while Towson leveled the series at Rhodes Field in 2010, 1-0.
About Towson
The Tigers (5-2-1) are a reversal of VCU; after losing two right to start the summer season, obtained claimed five consecutively (all shutouts) and generally are unbeaten in six. Final week-end, Towson overcome Mount St. Mary’s 4-0 and Loyola (Md.) 1-0. Seven different women have actually scored the Tigers in 2010, led by Natalia Pinkney (3) and Katie Fullerton (2). In-goal, Taylor Sebolao has started all eight suits; she's a 0.50 GAA and a .922 save yourself portion.
About Penn
*Using the normal soccer formula of three points for a victory, one for a tie and zero for a reduction, Penn has actually 12 things from its five suits thus far in 2010. The only real other times the Quakers had 12 or maybe more things as of this juncture had been 1998 and 2011 (5-0-0 for a full 15 points); 2001, 2006 and 2013 (4-0-1, 13 points); and 1997 (4-1-0, 12 things).
*Those quick begins were harbingers of solid periods. The 1998 team finished 11-5-1; the 2001 squad went 13-2-3; the 2011 staff moved 14-2-1; as well as the 2013 club moved 12-1-4. The 2001 group tied up for program’s very first Ivy League subject, although the 2011 and 2013 teams finished second when you look at the Ancient Eight standings.
*Penn returned just four players who scored last period. None of them have scored yet this year, but eight OTHER players have previously scored.
*The caveat here's senior defender Paige Lombard; she scored in consecutive games, against Mount St. Mary’s and final Friday at Clemson. These were the woman first objectives at Penn, but her 3rd and fourth as a collegian - she additionally scored two times in the University of Miami.
*Senior goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli ended up being upended and injured at the beginning of Friday’s match at Clemson, which left Carrie Crook to grab the pieces - which she performed, posting the shutout in her first collegiate start Sunday after allowing simply two objectives (one on a PK) up against the ranked Tigers.
*Sophomore Natasha Davenport and freshman Allie Trzaska - just who made her very first collegiate start - had the goals inside Quakers’ 2-1 win against formerly unbeaten Temple.
*Penn exposed its 2015 period - plus the Nicole Van Dyke coaching era - with a 3-1 win over Seton Hall on August 30. It marked the fifth-straight 12 months the Quakers have obtained their particular opener, and sixth time in seven years.
*Sophomore move Lauren Petite also scored in her own collegiate first; she was on TCU’s roster a year ago but did not see any match activity. Petite’s goal emerged significantly less than four moments in to the contest.
*By diary date, this year’s season opener was the first in program history - in both 2007 and 2012 the Quakers exposed the growing season on August 31. That 2007 game finished as a 1-0 conquer Saint-Louis, whilst the 2012 match had been a 2-1 win over James Madison.
*Penn’s strength lately happens to be its protection, and therefore numbers to stay intact this season. That defense begins in the really back, in which Kalijah Terilli was the mainstay in goal going back couple of years. She's been a third-team NSCAA All-Region choose each of the final 2 yrs, and had been first-team All-Ivy in 2013.
*Terilli - who shared last Sunday’s shutout with junior Carrie Crook - owns 12 career solo shutouts, that is one shy for the system record held by Vanessa Scotto. Terilli’s career goals-against average is 0.78, next behind Sarah Banks (0.75 from 2010-12).
*The defense should once more be shored up by senior Caroline Dwyer. She ended up being shut down after 11 suits just last year as a result of damage, but as a sophomore she ended up being Ivy League Defensive Player of the season; first-team All-Ivy; first-team NSCAA All-Region; and third-team NSCAA All-America (just the 2nd player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America recognition, after Katy Cross).
Freya Rinaldi