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A brief game preview is posted below.

Live Coverage: The Shippensburg University sports information office will provide a live statistics feed of the game at the link above.

Scouting The Rock: Slippery Rock has opened its season 3-0 for the first time since 1995 and was well on its way to 4-0 for only the second time ever before Mother Nature intervened. The Rock was up 4-0 over Mercy last Friday when lightning in the area forced the game to be called with just over 13 minutes left in the first half. Mercy had not registered a single shot.

Slippery Rock is outscoring opponents 10-2 and outshooting the opposition 64-28. Kaitlin McGinnis, last week's PSAC-West Player of the Week, leads the team with four goals. Freshman Courtney Bradshaw has two goals and one assist and Kelsey Gustafson has a goal and one assist. Lauren Geiser, Allison Shade and Rebecca Williams have all scored once and Ally Banks has two assists to cap the multiple point scorers. Four other players have tallied at least one assist.

Courtney Lee has started all three games in goal for SRU and is 3-0 with one shutout. She has allowed just one goal for a 0.36 goals against average and has made 11 saves for a .917 save percentage.

Scouting the Lady Raiders: Shippensburg jumped to No. 1 in the Division II rankings, as released by the NFHCA Tuesday afternoon just before game time. The Lady Raiders shut out then No. 1 and defending national champion West Chester, 3-0, last weekend and are unbeaten at 4-0 overall.

The Raiders are outscoring opponents 18-1 and outshooting the opposition 95-26. Bre White leads the team with eight goals and one assist, while Taylor Bender has four goals and one assist and Sam Langone has one goal and four assists. Brittany Jett has found the cage twice and Taylor Jones has a goal and one assist to cap the top scorers.

Ciarra Delost has started three games and played the majority of the minutes in goal, posting a 3-0 record with one shutout. She has allowed one goal for a 0.36 goals against average and has made eight saves for a .889 save percentage. Carenna Neely has started one game and is 1-0, allowing no goals and recording six saves.

Head Coaches: Julie Swiney is in her third season at the helm for SRU. She has led The Rock to back-to-back six-win seasons and their first PSAC playoff appearance since 1987. Swiney joined Slippery Rock after serving four years as American International's head coach from 2006-2009. A 2003 graduate of The College of William and Mary, Swiney was a three-year starter for the Tribe.

Bertie Landes is in her 14th season as the head coach at Shippensburg, where she has led the team to a record of 221-60-1. She has more wins than any other active Division II head coach and reached her 400th career coaching win last season. Prior to her time at Ship, she spent 19 seasons as the coach at the Philadelphia Biblical University. In 2011, she was inducted into the NFHCA Hall of Fame. Landes is a 1970 graduate of Lock Haven University.

Series History: This will be the 41st all-time meeting between the two teams in a series that has been dominated by Shippensburg. The Raiders own a 33-6-1 advantage in the series, with the last Rock win coming in 1998.  Ship has won the last 22 straight meetings.

Last Meeting: (Box Score) Shippensburg posted a 4-1 win over Slippery Rock Oct. 8, 2011 in Shippensburg.

The Raiders posted a 10-3 advantage in total shots, a 6-2 edge in shots on goal and a 16-1 advantage in penalty corners.

Sam Langone scored two goals off the bench to lead Shippensburg, which also got goals from Lauren Taylor and Bre White, with assists going to White and Taylor Jones.

Slippery Rock's goal came from Lindsay Brown off an assist from Gabrielle Malishchak that made the score 3-1 in the 42nd minute. The final tally of the game was a penalty stroke for White in the 54th minute.

Courtney Lee recorded two saves in goal for Slippery Rock, while Alyssa Stefandis allowed one goal and recorded one save in net for Ship.