| THE LEAD |
| The Daemen College women's soccer team continues its season-opening string of road games by visiting Le Moyne College in Syracuse for a non-conference clash on Monday...it'll mark the third straight season that the Wildcats and Dolphins have met. |
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| GAME INFORMATION |
| Daemen at Le Moyne |
| Date: Monday, September 5 |
Time:Â 11:00 a.m. |
Location: Ted Grant Field, Syracuse, N.Y. |
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Daemen Twitter:Â |
@DaemenAthletics, @DaemenWSOC |
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#DCWildcatNation, #WNYsD2Team, #LiveBreatheDaemen, #beFIERCE |
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@LeMoyneDolphins, @LeMoyneWSOC |
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| ON THE SIDELINES |
Daemen: Dan Dolan enters his eighth season as the head coach at Daemen where he's led the program to an average of nearly 10 wins per season...from 2010 through 2013, Dolan led the Wildcats to four straight double-figure win seasons, winning 62-percent of their contests in that span...last season was the program's most successful since transitioning to NCAA Division II, as Dolan led the Wildcats to a team-record four ECC wins to finish in fifth place in the final league standings, just one spot back of a conference tournament berth...during the Wildcats' transition period, Dolan led the program to three straight appearances in the USCAA national championship game, winning the title in 2012.
Le Moyne: Carrie Bonus is in her first season as the head coach at Le Moyne...with over 20 years of coaching experience, Bonus came to Le Moyne after serving as the head coach at Onondaga Community College...she also holds previous head coaching experience at Cayuga Community College and Division III Frostburg State...Bonus has also made assistant coaching stops at Division I Brown, Division III Allegheny, Frostburg State and Ithaca. |
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| DAEMEN SCOUTING REPORT (0-1-0, 0-0-0ECC) |
| Daemen returns 15 players from last year's team that finished 7-10-1 overall and 4-5-0 in the East Coast Conference…eighth-year head coach Dan Dolan has his team coming off its most successful season since making the transition to NCAA Division II and the East Coast Conference...the returning core is led by junior back Rose Carboni who anchors the Wildcat defense...she was a third-team All-ECC selection last season...also back are six off the team's top seven point-producers from 2015, including junior forward Stephanie Zurales (6 gls, 5 asts, 17 pts) and senior midfielder Alexis Koral (5 gls, 2 asts, 12 pts) who produced double-figure points...Zurales' point total tied her for 11th among all ECC players...starting goalkeeper Meaghan O'Leary also returns after starting all 18 games last season as a true freshman...she finished third among all ECC net-minders with 87 saves last season...Daemen was picked to finish seventh in the ECC preseason poll...the Wildcats opened the 2016 season with a 2-1 loss at Lake Erie last Thursday...Zurales netted her eighth career goal to even the score at 1-1 just over three minutes into the second half, but Lake Erie went ahead when Ashley Pryce scored her second marker of the game in the 74th minute...Jackie Wescott got the start between the pipes, the first of her career, as O'Leary works her way back from an injury. |
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| LE MOYNE SCOUTING REPORT (1-0-0, 0-0-0 NE-10) |
| Le Moyne returns 11 players from last year's team that finished 4-12-1 overall and 3-10-1 in the Northeast-10 Conference...new head coach Carrie Bonus'Â team was picked 13th in the NE-10Â preseason poll...the Dolphins will be without its leading scorer from last season after graduating Kelly Ristoff, a second-team All-NE-10 pick who posted nine goals and 18 points...LC does return a pair of players who recorded double-figure points last season in junior forward Kristen Colegrove (4 gls, 3 asts, 11 pts) and senior forward Rachel Terry (4 gls, 2 asts, 10 pts)...the Dolphins are coming off a 1-0 shutout of Roberts Wesleyan in their season opener last Thursday...junior forward Stephanie Liberati scored in the 85th minute to snap the scoreless tie and deliver LC's first win in a season opener since 2012...sophomore Cumika Anastasija got the call between the pipes, making three saves to record the shutout. |
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| THE HISTORY |
| All-Time: Lemoyne leads series 2-0 |
| Previous Meetings: |
| Sept. 9, 2014 - Le Moyne 1, Daemen 0 (2OT) |
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| Sept. 7, 2015 - Le Moyne 2, Daemen 1 |
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| THIS DAY IN DAEMEN WOMEN'S SOCCER HISTORY |
| Sept. 5: Daemen opened the 2015 season with a 7-1 loss at Slippery Rock...Lindsay Stoddard scored a first-half goal and Emily Ward put home the game-winner in overtime in a 2-1 defeat of Maine-Fort Kent in 2014...Rachael Banasik and Kelsey O'Leary both scored twice in a 5-0 win over Paul Smith's College in 2010...Daemen scored a 3-2 win over Nyack at the Roberts Wesleyan Tournament in 2003. |
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| ON THE HORIZON |
| Daemen concludes a stretch of four straight road games to open the season by visiting Findlay (Saturday, Sept. 10) and Tiffin (Sunday, Sept. 11) this weekend. |
