DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's soccer team will get the 2022-23 athletic calendar underway Thursday night when it opens its season at Hardin-Simmons University (Texas).
Where:
HSU Soccer Complex – Abilene, Texas
When:
Thursday vs. Hardin-Simmons – 8 p.m.
Saturday vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor – 5:30 p.m.
Live Video: https://www.hsuathletics.com/broadcasts
Live Stats: https://csssaints.com/sidearmstats/wsoc/
St. Scholastica Saints
Record: 0-0-0, 0-0-0 MIAC
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Standings | Stats
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-St. Scholastica enters the 2022 season after qualifying for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) playoffs in its inaugural season.
-The Saints finished with four wins last season and three of those victories came away from Duluth.
-The Saints finished the regular season with a losing record for the first time since 2016.
-St. Scholastica will have to replace 67% of its goal scoring from a season ago.
-Much of those numbers came from
Morgan Friday (Duluth, Minn./Shattuck St. Mary's HS), who finished second in program history with 81 career goals and 180 career points.
-Sophomore
Abigail Shrode (Hamilton, Mich./Hamilton HS) is the only returning Saint who scored multiple goals (2) last season.
-Sophomore
Payton Kolles (Elk River, Minn./Elk River HS) is the only returning Saint who recorded multiple assists (2) last season.
-The Saints return experience at the back as
Hunter Zamzow (Duluth, Minn./Shattuck St. Mary's School),
Ellie Keillor (Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS),
Karissa Beaston (Madera, Calif./Shattuck St. Mary's HS (Minn.)) and
Ella Stritesky (Rogers, Minn./Rogers HS) are all back after all played in over 1,400 minutes of action last season.
-Also back is
Alexa Ickert (Minnetrista, Minn./Waconia HS) in the midfield after earning Honorable Mention All-MIAC accolades last season.
-Junior goalkeeper
Brianna Jorgenson (Columbia Heights, Minn./Columbia Heights HS) started 10 games a season ago and recorded three shutouts.
-Head Coach
Dave Reyelts, in his 23
rd season, is two wins shy of 300 for his career.
No More Regular Season OT in 2022
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP) approved a major rule change for men's and women's soccer in April with the elimination of overtime for regular season games. If a game is tied after the regulation 90 minutes, it will now end in a tie. Previously, teams played two 10-minute overtime periods in a sudden-victory (golden goal) format, and if neither team scored, the game ended in a tie. In conference tournaments and NCAA postseason games, the sudden-victory component has also been eliminated, and teams will play two 10-minute overtime periods instead. Also, when a substitution is made by the winning team in the last five minutes of the second overtime, the game clock will stop. If the game remains tied, a penalty-kick shootout will be held to determine the winner.
What You Need to Know about Hardin-Simmons:
Record: 0-0-0, 0-0-0 ASC
-The Cowgirls went 14-4-1 a season ago and finished 9-1-0 in the American Southwest Conference (ASC).
-Hardin-Simmons captured its 19
th straight ASC Tournament title over Mary-Hardin Baylor University by way of penalty kicks.
-The Cowgirls fell 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Trinity University (Texas).
-Hardin-Simmons is picked to win the ASC once again, according to the league's preseason poll.
-Junior Mercy Mummert was named the conference's preseason Defensive Player of the Year.
-The Cowgirls allowed only nine goals all last season.
-Sophomore midfielder Gabby Aviles and senior goalkeeper Haley Foley are on the ASC's Players to Watch list.
Series Record: HSU leads 1-0-0
(Last Meeting: 5-0 HSU – 8/30/2014)
Series History: The Saints and Cowgirls met early in the 2014 season down in San Antonio. Hardin-Simmons scored three goals in the first 45 minutes en route to victory.
What You Need to Know about Mary Hardin-Baylor:
Record: 0-0-0, 0-0-0 ASC
-The Cru open their season also on Thursday against the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
-The Cru went 14-3-2 last season with two of the three losses coming in overtime.
-UMHB lost in penalty kicks to Hardin-Simmons to finish runner-up in the ASC.
-UMHB is picked to finish second again in the ASC this season, according to the league's preseason poll.
-Senior Maria Rico was named the conference's preseason Offensive Player of the Year.
-Rico was a Third Team All-America selection last season and is the reigning ASC Offensive Player of the Year.
-She led the Cru in in goals (13), assists (five), points (31) in 2021.
-Seniors Kristen Burdick and Shay Taylor were also named to the ASC's Players to Watch List.
Series Record: First Meeting
Series History: First Meeting
Looking Ahead: The Saints will be at home next weekend as they welcome the team they are sharing this Texas trip with in UW-Whitewater next Friday.
