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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University field hockey team will close out the 2019 season 4 p.m. Friday when it hosts No. 5 Shippensburg University in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference contest at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
 
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GAME 18 DETAILS
Opponent: Shippensburg University
Date: Friday, Nov. 1 – 4 p.m.
Location: Mihalik-Thompson Stadium | Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Live Video: Link
Live Stats: Link
In-game Updates: Twitter (@Rock_Athletics)
All-Time Series: Shippensburg leads 45-6-1
Last Played: Oct. 27, 2018 (Shippensburg won 3-0 at home)
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
Shippensburg holds a 45-6-1 record against The Rock in the all-time series which dates back to 1979. Slippery Rock's last win against the Raiders came in 1998.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
• Record: 5-12
• PSAC Record: 2-7
• PSAC Standings: Ninth
• Home Record: 3-5
• Away Record: 2-6
• Neutral Site Record: 0-1
• Streak: W1
• Last Five Games: 2-3
• Head Coach: Julie Swiney | 10th season (68-116)
 
SLIPPERY ROCK NOTES
Last Time Out: Slippery Rock earned a 4-3 victory on the road at Seton Hill.
 
• Kayla Ulrich produced one of the top offensive performances in program history against Seton Hill. Ulrich tallied six points on two goals and two assists. The six-point effort is tied for the second highest single-game output in Slippery Rock history.
 
• Ulrich is now tied for the team-lead this season in points with 16 to go with a Rock-high four assists and six goals. She has placed 16 of 23 shots on goal this year.
 
• Jessie Trube is tied with Ulrich for the team-lead in points at 16 on an SRU-best seven goals and two assists. Trube's 27 shots on goal are a team-high as well.
 
• Courtney Page continued what has been a career-year with an assist against Seton Hill. She now has nine points in 2019 via three goals and three assists in addition to ranking second in shots on goal with 19.
 
• Abby McKay and Lauren Marks also added goals against Seton Hill to move into a four-way tie for fourth on the team in goals scored this year along with Addy Ross and Emily Polakovsky with two. Ross also has a pair of assists.
 
• Madison Posivak has chipped in The Rock's other goal this season while Kalie Reed, Mikaela Hettel and Brenna McGovern-Lind round out SRU's point scorers so far this year at one assist each.
 
• Holly Stiller has accounted for four of The Rock's nation's best 11 defensive saves this year. Stiller is tied for seventh in NCAA Division II in defensive saves. Adding to The Rock's total has been Reed with three defensive saves, Jordan Barnes with two and McGovern-Lind and Lacy Bayley having accounted for one apiece.
 
• Hannah Nurse has started 12 of her 14 game's played this year. She is 3-8 with 78 saves, a .722 save percentage and a 3.33 goals against average. Nurse ranks second in the PSAC in total saves.
 
• Maddie Murphy has appeared in 13 games, five of which have been starts. She is 2-4 with 37 saves, a .725 save percentage and a 2.52 goals against average.
 
• 10 of The Rock's 25 goals this season have come in the second quarter. Overall, SRU ranks eighth in the PSAC in goals scored.
 
• A Rock victory over Shippensburg would not only snap SRU's 34-game losing streak to the Raiders, but it would also match The Rock's second-highest season win total over the last five years.
 
• Eight Rock players (Ulrich, Page, Polakovsky, McKay, Reed, Bayley, Stiller and Barnes) have started all 15 games this season. If that number holds through the end of the year it would mark the first time since 2012, and just the second time in the last 13 years overall, that eight position players (non-goalies) have started every game in a season.
 
RECORDS WATCH
• Ulrich's big game against Seton Hill bumped her career totals up to 58 points, 25 goals and eight assists. Entering the final game of her junior season, Ulrich ranks second in program history for points in a career, tied for second in goals scored and tied for seventh in assists.
 
• Ulrich is nine goals away from breaking Megan McKay's program record for goals in a career.
 
• Murphy currently ranks third for Slippery Rock in career wins (13), third in career goals against average (2.15), fourth in saves (192) and fifth in save percentage (.736).
 
THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY
• Oct. 30, 2015 – Megan McKay records a hat trick vs. Limestone.
 
SHIPPENSBURG PRIMER
• Record: 11-5
• NFHCA Top 10: Fifth
• PSAC Record: 7-2
• PSAC Standings: Third
• Home Record: 5-3
• Away Record: 5-2
• Neutral Site Record: 1-0
• Streak: W4
• Last Five Games: 4-1
• Head Coach: Tara Zollinger l Third season (47-13)
 
SHIPPENSBURG NOTES
Last Time Out: The Raiders cruised to a 6-1 non-conference victory at Frostburg State.
 
• Shippensburg enters its regular-season finale locked into the third seed of the upcoming PSAC Tournament.
 
• The reigning NCAA national champion Raiders are led by Jazmin Petrantonio, who leads all of Division II with 27 goals scored. Petrantonio also leads the nation in total points with 61.
 
• Jenna Sluymer (eight goals), Emily Stauffer (five) and Valen Alonso (three) round out the Shippensburg attack. Stauffer scored two goals in Shippensburg's 3-0 win against The Rock a year ago.
 
• Goalkeeper Megan Lay has recorded 68 saves and a .800 save percentage.
 
 
 
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