DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica men's and women's soccer teams will travel to Crown College and Northwestern College this weekend to close out regular season play.

Game Times:
Friday vs. Crown – Men @ 1:30; Women @ 3:30 p.m.
Saturday vs. Northwestern – Men @ Noon; Women @ 2 p.m.

Men's Soccer

Last Action:
In their last game, the Saints clinched the UMAC regular season title as well as the top seed in the UMAC playoffs starting next week. All nine seniors started for the Saints for the first time all year. #Andrew Ndekwe# had a five-point game with two goals and one assist on the day. Goalkeeper #Sam Reed# registered his program-record 12th shutout of the season and 27th of his career.

St. Scholastica Saints (14-3-1, 11-0-1 UMAC)
CSS has won its last four games, and has won eight of its last nine games…The Saints have five players who have four goals or more on the year … Senior captain #Jermaine Dacres# is CSS's leading point getter with 13 goals and six assists to give him 32 points. Dacres is also tops in the UMAC in points and goals … #Cody Sveiven# has nine goals and eight assists for 24 points … Sveiven is second in the UMAC in points, and assists, and is in a tie for second with goals… #Brandon Stemwedel# is the conference leader in assists with nine … Goalkeeper Sam Reed (Eastbourne, England/Causeway School) has given up only six goals in 16 games played, and has a goals-against-average of 0.37 to put him first in the UMAC in that category... Reed has 12 shutouts on the year, which is the program record.

Crown Storm (6-10-2, 5-6-1 UMAC)
Crown has been on a roll as of late, knocking off the No.2 and No. 3 teams in the league in its last two outings … The Storm will be going for the trifecta on Friday against the Saints … The Storm have five players who have scored two goals or more on the year … Mark Matson has scored 12 goals on the year to lead the team and is second in the UMAC … Jon Schultz has six goals on the year … Matson and Schultz have the most points on the year with 26 and 17 respectively … Mark Jensen has stepped up as the primary goalkeeper so far this year after sharing time with Samuel Moua earlier in the year… Jensen has logged 1280 minutes in net and has a goals-against-average of 2.11.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Crown: 21-1-1)
The Saints defeated Crown in their last match-up by a score of 1-0 over the Storm. It was Homecoming for the Saints, and Cody Sveiven (Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids HS) netted the only goal of the game in the 30th minute.

Northwestern Eagles (8-8-2, 7-4-1 UMAC)
The Eagles have lost three of its last four and have fallen from second to fourth in the conference standings … Northwestern has already clinched a berth in the UMAC Postseason Tournament … Sam Mann is the team's leading scorer, and tops in the points category (10), with five goals on the year … Kellen Arey is leading the Eagles in assists with three … Josh Niedermayer, a junior, is the starting goalkeeper for the Eagles… Niedermayer has given up 20 goals through the season so far, for a 1.17 goals against average.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Northwestern: 36-11-3)
In an early October match-up between the Saints and the Eagles, CSS picked up the win in a hotly contested 1-0 overtime win. Jermaine Dacres (Nottingham, England/Haywood School) scored the goal for the Saints in the 93rd minute.


Women's Soccer

Last Action:
The Saints and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls played to a 2-2 tie in miserable conditions at River Falls. #Andrea Beatt# and #Claire Lubansky# each recorded goals for the Saints. The teams then played a shootout to determine the winner for the Chalice. The Falcons ended up winning the shootout 3-2.

St. Scholastica Saints (12-4-2, 11-0-1 UMAC)
The Saints are unbeaten in their last 14 games, since starting the season 0-4 … With one win this weekend the Saints can clinch the conference regular season championships… The Saints have allowed just four goals in conference matches this season … Andrea Beatt (Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) leads the team with eight goals and 19 points this season … Goalkeeper #Bailey Mahlum# leads the league with a 0.79 goals-against-average … #Shannon Carlson# is second in the conference with four game-winning goals this season.

Crown Storm (3-13-0, 2-10-0 UMAC)
Crown's two conference wins this season have come against Presentation College … The Storm only have four goal scorers on the year … Natalie Worrest and Miranda Baltzer have five and four goals respectively … The duo has combined for 22 points on the year … Worrest and Baltzer are leading the team in assists with two each… The Storm split goalkeeper time between Merissa Mosher and Alyssa Hiebert … The tandem is giving up over four goals per game.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Crown: 22-0-0)
On the Saints' Homecoming CSS defeated the Storm by a score of 7-0…Seven different players scored in the victory.

Northwestern Eagles (10-7-0, 10-2-0 UMAC)
The Eagles have won nine of their last 10 and outscoring their opponents in that stretch 43-8… Northwestern can still win the conference out-right with a pair of wins this weekend, coupled with two CSS non-victories … Rebekah Kirby and Kyrie Jorgensen are leading this year's Eagles offense with 17 and 11 goals, respectively, and are combining for 60 points so far this year … Kirby is first in the UMAC in goals and points…Heidi Anderson is leading the team in assists with six to give her a tie for fourth in the UMAC … Goalkeeper Tara Hanson has given up 24 goals so far this year for a 1.61 goals against average.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Northwestern: 26-8-1)
In an October 1st match-up the Saints defeated the Eagles by a score of 2-0…#Taylor Cunningham# and Shannon Carlson (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury HS) netted the goals for the Saints…Bailey Mahlum (Bismarck, N.D./Bismarck HS) earned the shutout for CSS.