West Coast Trip Continues at San Diego State (March 15)

Wednesday, March 15

San Diego, CA

6 PM Eastern

University of New Hampshire

San Diego State

Photo by: Joey Walker

3/14/2017 3:57:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

UNH Women's Lacrosse

New Hampshire (0-7, 0-0 America East) at San Diego State (4-2, 0-1 MPSF)
Tuesday, March 15 • 6 p.m. Eastern • Aztec Lacrosse Field • San Diego, Calif.
Video • Stats

The Matchup

Wednesday's game at Aztec Lacrosse Field will mark the inaugural meeting between the UNH and San Diego State University women's lacrosse programs.

The State of New Hampshire

UNH has an overall record of 0-7 that includes 0-4 on the road following Monday's 15-4 loss at fourth-ranked Southern California.
The 'Cats scored the game's first goal each of the first four games of the season. The past three games, Fairfield University raced out to a 4-0 lead, UMass opened the game with five consecutive goals and USC built a 7-0 advantage.
UNH is averaging 7.29 goals and 22.4 shots per game while allowing averages of 14.00 goals and 30.1 shots.
New Hampshire has scored double digits twice in seven games and the opponent has reached double figures every game.

'Cat Nips

Junior goalkeeper Kate Clancy (Barrington, R.I.) recorded her third double-digit save effort of the season with 12 stops at fourth-ranked USC on Monday. The 12 saves match her third-highest single-game total.
Clancy was also credited with a team-high four ground balls vs. the Trojans.
Clancy has started all 40 games since arriving at UNH. She has a 13.73 GAA and .419 save percentage in seven games this season, and her 2017 highlights include a career-high 19-save effort in the season opener vs. Harvard.
Junior midfielder Teagan Northrup (Longmeadow, Mass.) recorded her first career multiple-assist game with two at fourth-ranked USC. The two points matched her personal best.
Junior attack Krissy Schafer (Longmeadow, Mass.) scored a team-high two goals at #4 USC.
Schafer has scored a goal in 6 of 7 games this season with six multiple-goal games and that includes a career high of four at UConn (Feb. 26).
Sophomore attack Catherine Sexton (Niskayuna, N.Y.) recorded her first multiple-point game of the season with a goal and an assist at USC.
Carly Wooters (White Plains, N.Y.), a junior midfielder, scored a goal at Southern Cal. She has scored a goal in 6 of 7 games with four two-point efforts, including a two-goal effort at Holy Cross.

The Leaderboard

Krissy Schafer has scored a team-high 16 goals for a team-best 16 points; she also ranks second in draw controls (12) and shooting percentage (.485), and is third in shots (33).
Devon Croke (Norwell, Mass.) is second in goals (11) and shots (34), and third in points (12).
Despite missing the past two games, junior midfielder Devan Miller (Bristol, R.I.) is atop the UNH leaderboard in assists (seven), ranks second in points (15) and third in goals (eight).
Hope Kissick is UNH's leader in caused turnovers (seven) and is second in ground balls (13) as well as third in draw controls (10).
Cat Sennott (Westford, Mass.) is No. 1 in ground balls (14) and is tied for second in caused turnovers (six).
Carly Wooters has a team-high 39 shots and is atop the leaderboard in draw controls (18).

Conference Call (through March 12)

Devan Miller is tied at No. 5 in assists per game.
Krissy Schafer is ninth in goals per game.
Carly Wooters is eighth in shots per game and Devon Croke is ninth.
Kate Clancy is No. 2 in saves per game.

Shoot

New Hampshire has been outshot in 5 of 7 games, but that total was close in consecutive games at Fairfield (23-20) and against UMass (24-23). At the other end of the spectrum, Harvard was +20 (43-23), and both Dartmouth and Southern California were +19.
The bigger disparities are in shooting percentage (UNH 32.5% … Opponents 46.4%) and shots on goal percentage (UNH 71.3% … Opponents 79.6%).

Free and Clear

UNH has scored on 9 of 36 free position shots (25.0%) in comparison to 19-for-36 (52.8%) for the opposition.
The Wildcats struggled on clear attempts against Dartmouth College (15 of 24) and at USC (particularly in the second half; 5x10) but are a combined 82-for-93 (88.2%) in the other five games for a total of 109-136 (80.1%); in comparison, the opposition has 119 successful clears in 139 attempts (85.6%).

Up and Down

UNH has scored two player-up goals in six opportunities through seven games. They were 1-for-1 Monday at USC, but did allow two player-down goals by the Women of Troy before that tally.
Opponents have converted 10 of 13 player-up advantages into goals.
The Wildcats have scored one goal while serving a yellow card and allowed two player-down goals – both scored this past Monday by fourth-ranked Southern California.

Possession Is Nine-Tenths The Law

The opposition has a 134-104 edge in ground balls, which calculates to 19.1 to 14.9 per game. UNH has recorded the edge in two games and opponents have had the edge four times; the total was also even one game.
The opponents also have the advantage in draw controls at 89-73, which is 12.7 – 10.4 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 Aztecs

San Diego State University has a 4-2 overall record that includes 0-1 in the MPSF and 2-1 at home. The Aztecs increased their win streak to four games with last Friday's 13-12 home win against Saint Joseph's.
Vickie Porter (16g), Kristen Hickey (12g, 3a) and Alex Watson (11g, 3a) are SDSU's top three point producers.
Kayla Deitz (9g) and Natalie Peel (8g, 1a) give the Aztecs a balanced attack.
Hickey is also tied for second in ground balls and is second in caused turnovers.
Katrina Reeves leads SDSU in both of those stats with 23 GB and 15 CTO.
Reeves has started all six games in goal and has a 10.46 GAA with a .459 save percentage.
SDSU is averaging 12.50 goals and 30.8 shots per game while surrendering 10.00 goals and 26.8 shots per game.

What's the MPSF?

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