PREVIEW: Women's Soccer Travels to #2 UNH for AE Semifinal Game
11/2/2022 12:00:00 PM | Women's Soccer
ORONO, Maine - The University of Maine women's soccer team will travel to the University of New Hampshire to take on the Wildcats in the semi-final round of the America East playoffs. Kickoff on November 3rd in Durham, New Hampshire is scheduled for 6:00 pm.
GAME INFORMATION
DATE: Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
SITE: Wildcat Stadium - Durham, N.H.
2022 RECORDS: Maine 9-2-5, 4-0-4 AE, UNH 8-2-5, 5-1-2 AE
VIDEO: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: unhwildcats.com
TWITTER: @MaineWSoccer
TICKETS: UNH Ticket Office
PRICES: $10 Adult/$8 Youth/$5 Group/$2 Students
The Series
Since 2006, the Black Bears are 5-9-3 against UNH. The two squads tied, 1-1, earlier in the season in Durham.
UMaine defeated the University of New Hampshire in penalty kicks, 4-3, in the first round of the 2015 America East tournament.
Black Bears Notes and Notables
GAME INFORMATION
DATE: Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
SITE: Wildcat Stadium - Durham, N.H.
2022 RECORDS: Maine 9-2-5, 4-0-4 AE, UNH 8-2-5, 5-1-2 AE
VIDEO: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: unhwildcats.com
TWITTER: @MaineWSoccer
TICKETS: UNH Ticket Office
PRICES: $10 Adult/$8 Youth/$5 Group/$2 Students
The Series
Since 2006, the Black Bears are 5-9-3 against UNH. The two squads tied, 1-1, earlier in the season in Durham.
UMaine defeated the University of New Hampshire in penalty kicks, 4-3, in the first round of the 2015 America East tournament.
Black Bears Notes and Notables
- Maine won its first America East playoff game since 2015 with a 4-1 victory over #6 NJIT. The last victory came by the way of a shootout (4-3) over UNH.
- The Black Bears now hold a 9-5-2 record on the season with the AE Quarterfinal win over the Highlanders.
- Emma Donovan, Saylor Clark, Julie Lossius, and Abby Kraemer, in that order, scored in the postseason victory. Donovan, Clark, and Kraemer also dished out assists under the lights on Mahaney Diamond.
- Halle Rogers, Kira Kutzinski, and Myla Schneider have all earned America East Defensive Player of the Week honors. Madison Michaud and Jordane Pinette both were named Rookie of the Week earlier in the season by the league during their first season in Orono, while Birte Speck was named Player of the Week after the Merrimack tie.
- Kira Kutzinski was named America East Goaltender of the Year, and Halle Rogers was named the league's Defender of the Year. These are the first major awards for the Black Bears since the 2015 season.
- UNH is coming off a 6-9-4 season, which saw them fall in the America East championship game to Vermont, 1-0.
- Four of the Wildcats top five scorers - Meghan Guarente, Emily Bini, Ella Dudley, and Anna Hewlett - from 2021 return in 2022.
- Cat Sheppard returns in net after posting a 0.90 GAA and 0.825 save percentage over her 19 appearances last season.
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