April 5, 2018
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| INSIDE THE NUMBERS | ||
| PSU | UVA | |
| 8-4 | Overall Record | 8-4 |
| 3-0 | Conference Record | 3-2 |
| 189 | Goals Scored | 173 |
| 140 | Goals Allowed | 130 |
| 15.69 | Goals Scored/gm. | 14.42 |
| 11.62 | Goals Allowed/gm. | 10.83 |
| 412 | Shots | 407 |
| 34.3 | Shots/gm. | 33.9 |
| 60 | Assists | 49 |
| 63-118 | Free Position Shots | 39-73 |
| 111 | Saves | 69 |
| 15.00 | Ground Balls/gm. | 19.08 |
| 15.42 | Draw Controls/gm. | 14.00 |
| 12.33 | Turnovers/gm. | 14.17 |
| 10.08 | Caused Turnovers/gm. | 9.33 |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The 19th-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions will travel to Virginia to battle the No. 6 Cavaliers in a non-conference match-up on Friday evening.
ABOUT THE MATCHUP
- This marks the 40th meeting between the two schools in the all-time series with Virginia holding the 21-18 advantage including a 17-5 mark since 1997. However, Penn State has won two of the last three meetings including a 12-8 victory last season in Happy Valley.
- The series dates back to 1983 and the teams have met at least once each season since that inaugural meeting where Penn State secured the 16-8 victory. Penn State won the first 10 meetings, but have only eight wins in the series since 1991.
- Senior Katie O'Donnell has registered 10 career goals against Virginia while adding three assists for 13 points in four career games registering multi-goal games in three of those four contests.
SCOUTING THE CAVALIERS
- Virginia is coming off a 15-8 setback at Maryland on Wednesday and have now lost two straight games and sit at 8-4 overall and are ranked No. 6 in the nation. The Cavaliers finished the 2017 season at 12-9 bowing out to UNV in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
- The Cavaliers are paced by three goal scorers with over 30 goals as Avery Shoemaker leads the team with 34 goals followed by Kasey Behr and Sammy Mueller with 32 and 31, respectively. Maggie Jackson has chipped in with 23 goals and a team-high 15 assists while Ana Hagerup has added 12 goals.
- Rachel Vander Kolk has started all 12 games between the pipes for Virginia posting an 8-3 record with a 10.95 goals against average and a 3.43 save percentage.
- As a team Virginia has just 69 saves and a .347 save percentage over the first 12 games this season to rank 105th out of 115 Division I teams.
- Virginia averages 14.42 goals per game and 19.27 groundballs per game.
FAST START
- Penn State has jumped out to early leads often this season and have lead at halftime in 10 of 12 games posting an 8-2 record in those contests.
- The Nittany Lions are outscoring their opponents 108-70 in the first half this season. Penn State's goal differential of 38 in the first half is second in the Big Ten only behind the 59 of Maryland who is outscoring opponents 110-51 over the opening 30 minutes.
- Even though Penn State has lead at the half in 10 games this season they have only scored the first goal of a game in 6-of-12 games holding records of 4-2 when scoring the first goal and also when allowing the first goal.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
- Penn State will be playing in its seventh road game of the 2018 season on Friday and after a slow start on the road going 1-2 the Nittany Lions are 3-0 in their last three road games.
- Penn State is averaging 15.33 goals per game on the road this season, but have scored 17.67 over its last three road games while only allowing 10 goals per game by the opposing team.
- The Nittany Lions are outscoring teams 92-71 on the road this season including a 53-30 mark over the last three.
MATURING DEFENSE
- Penn State is 5-1 over its last six games with its only loss coming by a single goal to Princeton, 13-12. In those six games Penn State is allowing just 10.83 goals per game after allowing 12.67 per game over the first six.
- The Nittany Lions also lead the Big Ten in caused turnovers per game averaging 10.1 while only turning the ball over 12.3 times per game themselves which also paces the conference.
- Junior Kelly Daggett's 22 caused turnovers are tied for the Big Ten lead and rank tied for 23rd nationally.
B1G OFFENSE
- Penn State is averaging 15.80 goals per game to rank second in the Big Ten behind Maryland and ninth in the nation while its 34.3 shots per game average also ranks second behind the Terrapins in the Big Ten and is good for tenth in the nation.
- The Nittany Lions have scored 189 goals this season to lead the Big Ten and rank fourth in the nation while their 63 free-position goals lead the entire nation and their .534 free-position percentage is good for seventh nationally and second in the Big Ten.
- Penn State's 26.8 shots on goal per game is good for tops in the Big Ten and fourth in the nation.
CONTROLLING THE DRAW
- Penn State ranks second in the Big Ten averaging 15.42 draws per game which is good for tied 13th nationally.
- Junior Madison Carter leads the conference averaging 6.92 draws per game to rank tenth in the nation. Carter had a career-high 15 draw controls two weeks ago against Princeton and ranks fifth in the nation with 83 total draw controls this season.
- Junior Kayla Brisolari ranks second on the team with 43 draws on the season.
200-POINT CLUB
- Senior Katie O'Donnell is just three points shy of 200 for her career as she would become the 14th player in program history to hit that mark. O'Donnell currently ranks 15th on the all-time points list.
- O'Donnell's 176 career goals are also good for fourth all-time and she has a chance at becoming just the fourth Nittany Lion ever to reach 200 career goals.
- O'Donnell's 34 goals this season are good for fourth in the Big Ten and she has scored at least one goal in 35-straight games dating back to her sophomore campaign.
MOVIN' ON UP
- Junior Madison Carter jumped into fifth on the Penn State all-time goals list after scoring five times last week at Ohio State. Carter sits just 18 goals behind O'Donnell with 158 for her career.
- Carter's 40 goals this season are good for second in the Big Ten and tied for 12th in the nation.
- Carter's 5-goal game marked the 11th of her career with at least five goals. Carter is currently riding a 15-game goal streak and has multiple-goals in 11 of 12 games so far this season.
MY MARIA
- Auth leads the team with 42 points to rank fifth in the Big Ten while her 36 goals are third in the Big Ten. Auth has also scored at least one goal in 15 straight games with multiple goals in all, but one of those contests.
NEXT UP
- Penn State has another week off as they return home to battle Northwestern in a crucial Big Ten Conference match-up next Saturday at 6 p.m.