POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Marist Women's Soccer continues non-conference play with the final leg of it season-opening, four-game road trip on Thursday, September 5 at New Hampshire, followed with its first home contest of 2019 against Loyola (MD) on Sunday, September 8.
 

HOW TO FOLLOW

• Kickoff in Durham, NH is tabbed for 7 p.m., with live video and statistics available to fans.
• Sunday's match will air on the Red Fox Network beginning at 1 p.m. and have live stats supplementing the coverage.

 

LAST WEEK

• Marist sustained its first loss of the year in a 3-1 setback at Drexel on August 30.
• However, the Red Foxes bounced back with a 5-0 triumph at Delaware State on September 1.

 

THROUGH THE FIRST THREE

• Marist sports a 2-1 record in 2019.
• In three games, the Red and White have scored nine goals, with an average of just under 16 shots per affair.
• Sixty-six percent of those 47 shots were on goal. That percentage is 10th-best across NCAA Division I soccer as of writing. Their 10.33 shots on goal per game ranks eighth.

 

NO HARM, NO FOUL

• The Red Foxes have yet to draw a yellow card on the young campaign.
• Marist sits 10th in the country with a measly five fouls per game.

 

COLATOSTI HEATS UP

• Sophomore Victoria Colatosti picked up her first-career MAAC Offensive Player of the Week award on September 2 after notching three goals and seven points against the Dragons and Hornets.
• On the season, the forward leads Marist and the MAAC with four goals and nine points.
• Individually, she is 11th in Division I in goals per game and points per game, and 17th in total goals.

 

SCOUTING NEW HAMPSHIRE

• The Wildcats enter Thursday's tilt at 2-2, with wins coming against Sacred Heart and Merrimack.
• Whitney Wiley paces the offense with three goals.
• In goal, Cat Sheppard has allowed three goals in over 361 minutes.
• This will mark the third all-time meeting between Marist and New Hampshire. The Red Foxes won the last matchup in 2017, 1-0.

 

SCOUTING LOYOLA (MD)

• The Greyhounds enter the week 1-2 after suffering a 3-1 defeat to MAAC-foe Quinnipiac. Loyola faces Yale on September 6 before Sunday's contest.
• Hannah Hoefs, Sarah Bayer, and Claire Smith have all scored for the Greyhounds.
• Lily Andres has played every minute between the pipes, making eight saves and allowing eight goals.
• Sunday will be the first meeting between these former MAAC rivals since 2012, Loyola's final year in the conference. Marist defeated the Greyhounds in the program's first MAAC Championship in 2011.

LOOKING AHEAD

After the next two games, Marist hosts Maine on Thursday, September 12 at 7 p.m.