West Coast Trip Begins March 13 at No. 4 USC

New Hampshire (0-6, 0-0 America East) at #4 Southern Cal (4-1, 1-0 MPSF)
Monday, March 13 • 7 p.m. Eastern • McAlister Field • Los Angeles, Calif.
TV: Pac-12 Los Angeles • Stats

The Matchup

Monday's game at McAlister Field will mark the inaugural meeting between the UNH and USC women's lacrosse programs.

The State of New Hampshire

UNH travels to the west coast with an 0-6 record following last Friday's 13-4 loss to the University of Massachusetts.
The Wildcats have played three home games and three road games.
The 'Cats scored the game's first goal each of the first four games of the season. In the next two games, Fairfield University raced out to a 4-0 lead and UMass opened the game with five consecutive goals.
UNH is averaging 7.83 goals and 24.2 shots per game while allowing averages of 13.83 goals and 30.0 shots.
New Hampshire has scored double digits twice in six games and the opponent has reached double figures every game.

'Cat Nips

Junior attack Krissy Schafer (Longmeadow, Mass.) has scored a goal in 5 of 6 games this season. She has tallied multiple goals in those five games and that includes a career high of four at UConn (Feb. 26).
Senior attack Devon Croke (Norwell, Mass.) extended her goal and point streaks to three games with one goal last Friday vs. UMass. She has scored a goal in 5 of 6 games with a personal best of four goals in the season opener vs. Harvard University (Feb. 18).
Croke recorded a season-high nine shots in that game against the Minutewomen. That total matches the high by a Wildcat this season that was established by Carly Wooters at College of the Holy Cross (March 1).
Wooters (White Plains, N.Y.), a junior midfielder, recorded a goal and an assist vs. UMass to mark the third time this season she finished a game with those numbers. She has tallied a point in 5 of 6 games with four two-point efforts, including a two-goal effort at Holy Cross.
Senior defender and captain Hope Kissick (Cohasset, Mass.) recorded a career-high three caused turnovers March 10 vs. UMass. Kissick also matched her season high of two draw controls against the Minutewomen.
In her 2017 season debut, junior defender Lizzie Suschana (Somers, Conn.) recorded a career-high three ground balls and was also credited with two caused turnovers against UMass.
Junior goalie Kate Clancy (Barrington, R.I.) has started all 39 games since arriving at UNH. She has a 13.52 GAA and .414 save percentage in six games this season, and her 2017 highlights include a career-high 19-save effort in the season opener vs. Harvard.

The Leaderboard

Devan Miller (Bristol, R.I.), who did not play Friday vs. UMass, is atop the UNH leaderboard in assists (seven) and points (15), as well as shooting percentage (.571). Miller ranks third in goals (eight).
Krissy Schafer has scored a team-high 14 goals; she also ranks second in points (14), draw controls (12) and shooting percentage (.500), and is third in shots (28).
Devon Croke is second in goals (11) and shots (33), and third in points (12).
Hope Kissick is UNH's leader in ground balls (13) and is tied for the lead in caused turnovers (six).
Cat Sennott (Westford, Mass.) is tied with Kissick for No. 1 in caused turnovers (six) and is No. 2 in ground balls (12).
Carly Wooters has a team-high 36 shots and is atop the leaderboard in draw controls (14).

Conference Call (through March 9)

Hope Kissick ranks third in America East in ground balls per game.
Devan Miller is No. 10 in points per game and No. 6 in assists per game.
Krissy Schafer is tied for seventh in goals per game and Devon Croke is tied for 10^th in that stat.
Kate Clancy is No. 2 in saves per game.

Shoot

New Hampshire has been outshot in 4 of 6 games, but that total has been close the past two games – at Fairfield (23-20) and against UMass (24-23).
The bigger disparities are in shooting percentage (UNH 32.4% … Opponents 46.1%) and shots on goal percentage (UNH 69.7% … Opponents 78.3%).

Free and Clear

UNH has scored on 9 of 35 free position shots (25.7%) in comparison to 18-for-34 (52.9%) for the opposition.
The Wildcats struggled on clear attempts against Dartmouth College (15 of 24) but are a combined 82-for-93 (88.2%) in the other five games for a total of 97-117 (82.9%); in comparison, the opposition has 100 successful clears in 119 attempts (84.0%).

Up and Down

UNH has scored one player-up goal in five opportunities through six games.
Opponents have converted 9 of 12 player-up advantages into goals.
The Wildcats have scored one goal while serving a yellow card and have not allowed a player-down goal.

Possession Is Nine-Tenths The Law

The opposition has a 113-91 edge in ground balls, which calculates to 18.8 to 15.2 per game. UNH has recorded the edge in two games and opponents have had the edge three times; the total was also even one game.
The opponents also have the advantage in draw controls at 77-64, which is 12.8 – 10.7 per game.

Working Overtime

UNH was defeated 11-10 in overtime at Holy Cross on March 1 when Mary Patalita scored with 42.3 seconds remaining in the six-minute extra session.
It was UNH's first OT loss since 2013, when the 'Cats were defeated by Boston College and Navy, both of whom were nationally-ranked, in overtime.
The Wildcats were 1-0 in OT in both 2016 and 2015; we did not play an overtime game in 2014.

Scouting the Trojans

The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.) enters Monday's matchup with a 4-1 overall record that includes 2-0 at home and 1-0 in the MPSF.
USC is coming off a 15-4 victory against Boston University on March 8.
The Trojans have an 11-10 overtime win against then-No. 9 Northwestern University and a 15-10 loss to then-No. 4 University of Florida on their 2017 resume.
Michaela Michael leads six Women of Troy in double-digit points with 16; she is tied for the team lead in goals (11) and is second in assists (five).
Cynthia Del Core also has 11 goals and is tied with Gabby McMahon for second in points with 14; McMahon is the third USC player in double-digit goals with 10.
Gabbi Klein is atop the assist leaderboard (seven) and has 11 points.
Michael accounts for 38 of the team's 63 draw controls.
Goalkeeper Gussie Johns has a 7.74 GAA and .557 save percentage with a team-high 25 ground balls.
USC is averaging 14.80 goals and 29.2 shots per game while surrendering 6.80 goals and 20.2 shots per game.

What's the MPSF?

MPSF is an acronym for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
In addition to USC, members of the MPSF are Cal, UC Davis, Colorado, Fresno State, Oregon, Saint Mary's College, San Diego State and Stanford.

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Kate Clancy

Devon Croke

Hope Kissick

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Cat Sennott

Lizzie Suschana

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