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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – After two non-conference games to start the season, the Slippery Rock University women's soccer team will begin its quest for a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship with a pair of league games against Millersville University and Shippensburg University Friday and Saturday at James Egli Field.
 
MATCH 3 DETAILS
Opponent: Millersville University
Date: Friday, Sept. 11 – 1 p.m.
Location: James Egli Field  |  Slippery Rock, Pa.
Live Stats: www.sidearmstats.com/sru/wsoc
In-game Updates: Twitter (@Rock_Athletics)
All-Time Series: Slippery Rock leads 16-4
Last Played: 2014 (Millersville won 2-0 at Millersville)
 
MATCH 4 DETAILS
Opponent: Shippensburg University
Date: Saturday, Sept. 12 – 1 p.m.
Location: James Egli Field  |  Slippery Rock, Pa.
Live Stats: www.sidearmstats.com/sru/wsoc
In-game Updates: Twitter (@Rock_Athletics)
All-Time Series: Slippery Rock leads 10-6-4
Last Played: 2014 (0-0 tie at Slippery Rock)
 
NEW TO THE PSAC
Friday's match will feature two of the newest PSAC head coaches in SRU's Jessica Griggs and Millersville's Matt Procopio. Griggs, Procopio and Bloomsburg's Matt Haney are all new to the league's head coaching ranks this season.
 
FAMILIAR FACES
Griggs and assistant coach Mark Sappington are no strangers to Shippensburg; Griggs spent four seasons on Shippensburg head coach Rob Fulton's staff from 2010-13 while Sappington was with the Red Raiders during the 2012 and 2013 campaigns.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
Record: 1-1
PSAC Record: 0-0
Home Record: 1-0
Away Record: 0-1
League Standings: 14th
Streak: Won one
Head Coach: Jessica Griggs | First season at SRU (1-1-0) | Second season overall (12-10-1)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
• Last time out: Slippery Rock's offense came alive to produce one of the highest scoring games in program history in a 7-1 win against Daemen College. The seven goals were the second most scored by a Rock team in a single game in the last 11 years.
 
• Slippery Rock has won nine out of its last 10 matches against Millersville.
 
• Slippery Rock is 18-3 in PSAC openers all-time.
 
• SRU's history with Shippensburg has been much closer; since 2010 The Rock and SU have played six times with four of the games having been decided in overtime.
 
• Just six of the 20 all-time matches between SRU and Shippensburg have been decided by more than one goal.
 
• Entering the weekend, Slippery Rock ranks first in the PSAC in goals per game (4.0) and ninth in goals allowed per game (1.5).
 
• Juniors Dara Demich and Andrea Felix exploded for two goals and one assist each in SRU's win vs. Daemen.
 
• Senior Caitlin Binder has scored goals in each of The Rock's first two games. Binder is the fourth Rock player since 2008 with at least one goal in each of the first two games of a season. Felix (2013), Ashley Paganie (2010) and Alison Hindley (2008) have also accomplished the feat.

• Junior defender Ariana Daukss, freshman forward Brooke Testa and sophomore midfielder Tess Keeley round out The Rock's top scorers with one assist each.
 
• Through two games, Slippery Rock is the only team in the PSAC to have three players with at least two goals on the season.
 
• Freshmen Mariah Varner and Julianna Esposito scored the first goals of the collegiate careers against Daemen. The record for goals by a freshmen class is 22 by the rookie groups in both 1999 and 2013.
 
• Slippery Rock is 19-4-1 at Egli Field since 2010.
 
MILLERSVILLE PRIMER
Record: 1-1
PSAC Record: 0-2
Home Record: 0-1
Away Record: 0-1
League Standings: 16th
Streak: Lost two
Head Coach: Matt Procopio | First season (0-2-0)
 
• The Marauders have lost a pair of overtime games to start the year. Before a 3-2 defeat at Bloomsburg, Millersville was bested 2-1 in overtime by No. 25 Kutztown.
 
• Junior Halie Parker has scored two of MU's three goals this season. Junior Victoria Kramer has the Marauders' other score.
 
• Junior goalie Samantha Wolfe has stopped 18 shots (.783), but has allowed five goals in 190 minutes.
 
SHIPPENSBURG PRIMER
Record: 1-0-1
PSAC Record: 1-0-1
Home Record: 1-0-0
Away Record: 0-0-1
League Standings: tied for sixth
Streak: Won one
Head Coach: Rob Fulton | 10th season (75-78-20)
 
• Shippensburg will play at Edinboro Friday prior to its contest at Slippery Rock.
 
• Shippensburg has had a balanced scoring attack early on with all four of its goals coming from different players (Jenny Litz, Ashley Weaver, Kat Hartner and Bailey Bzdak).
 
• Litz and Weaver have also been credited for one assist each and our tied for the team lead in points with three apiece.
 
• Goalie Leah Roy has stopped 14 shots (.824) and allowed three goals for a 1.56 goals against average.
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock hosts California (Pa.) 3:30 p.m. Sept. 15 for another installment in what has quickly become one of the premiere rivalries in the PSAC.