ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany field hockey team is set to host another game-filled weekend against Stanford and New Hampshire.
 
Masks are required for all fans not fully vaccinated.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
Stanford at UAlbany
DATE: Friday, October 8
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: Alumni Turf - Albany, NY
RECORDS: UAlbany 4-7, 1-1 America East; Stanford 3-3, 2-1 America East
SERIES RECORD: 6-2, Stanford leads
STREAM: AE.TV
STATS: UAlbanySports.com
 
New Hampshire at UAlbany
DATE: Sunday, October 10
TIME: 1:00 PM
SITE: Alumni Turf - Albany, NY
RECORDS: UAlbany 4-7, 1-1 America East; UNH 3-8, 1-2 America East
SERIES RECORD: 16-13, UAlbany leads
STREAM: AE.TV
STATS: UAlbanySports.com   
 
*records as of 10/5
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• The Great Danes opened the season with a 5-1 win over Colgate (8/27) before falling 2-1 against Fairfield (8/29).
• UAlbany beat Wagner (9/3), 4-1, for its first road game of the season but followed it up with three losses to UMass (9/5), No. 9 Penn State (9/10), and Columbia (9/12). During the final weekend of pre-conference games, the Great Danes earned a victory over Cornell (9/17) and a loss against No. 1 Michigan (9/18).
• To open America East play, UAlbany bested Vermont in a 3-2 overtime win on September 26.
• Senior Robyn Murray scored the first goal of the season on August 27.
• After scoring the game-winning goal against Vermont, freshman Alison Smisdom was named the America East Rookie of the Week on September 28.
• Smisdom leads the team with 20 points from eight goals and four assists. The freshman scored her first career hat trick at Wagner.
• Senior Elaina Burchell follows, scoring her third goal of the season against Vermont, totaling 8 points, with three goals and two assists.
• Half of the field players (nine student-athletes) have contributed at least one point, with eight different goal scorers.
• In net, freshman Lara Behn leads the goalies with a .704 save percentage and a 2.00 goals against average in 478:55.
• The Great Danes have totaled 141 shots and 80 penalty corners in 11 games.

 
ABOUT STANFORD

• To open the season the Cardinals fell to California (1-0, 8/27), playing without a goalkeeper.
• Stanford rallied against No. 10 Liberty (8/30), eventually falling, 5-1.
• The Cardinals continued to play without a goalkeeper against Dartmouth (9/6), winning 4-1.
• Two of four Stanford goals against the Big Green came from junior Lynn Vanderstichele.
• Stanford began America East play on the road with a 1-0 win against Vermont (9/24).
• Scoring early in the first quarter, the Cardinals fell against Maine (9/26) after the Black Bears came back to win, 3-2. This was Stanford's first conference loss.
• Stanford returned home to play UC Davis (10/1), winning 3-1.
• Haley Mossmer leads the Cardinals with 14 points from seven goals. She scored the game-winning goal against Vermont and UC Davis. Mossmer owns a five-game scoring streak, tallying a goal in all games this season but the first.
• The Cardinals have tallied 11 goals this season with a .635 shot on goal percentage.
• Playing the entirety of the season without a goalkeeper on the roster, Stanford has accumulated 10 saves in 6 games. 

 
SERIES AGAINST THE CARDINALS

• Stanford holds a 6-2 lead over UAlbany in the all-time series.
• Their last meeting resulted in a 3-2 overtime loss at home to close the 2020 season in the spring of 2021. Prior to the Cardinals' game-winning goal, Elaina Burchell scored to tie the game and bring it to overtime.
• Former Great Danes, Katie MacCallum and Cosima Rocktaeschel scored for UAlbany.
• UAlbany last beat the Cardinals, 1-0, on the road in 2014.. 

 
ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE

• The Wildcats opened their season beating Ohio University, 1-0 (8/28), but followed with four-straight losses - No. 5 Louisville (8/29), Boston U. (9/3), No. 3 Iowa (9/4), and Providence College (9/10).
• New Hampshire clinched a 2-1 overtime win against Bryant (9/17) to break the losing streak.
• The Wildcats followed their overtime with two three-straight losses - No. 3 Boston College (9/19), California (9/24), and UC Davis (9/26) - including the first two games of America East play.
• Most recently, New Hampshire tallied its first conference win at UMass Lowell (10/1) before falling at No. 12 Harvard (10/3).
• Sophomore Lindsey Lee scored two goals to lead UNH to a victory against UMass Lowell. 
• Lindsay Lee leads the Wildcats with nine points from three goals and three assists.
• Bloem van den Brekel follows closely with eight points from a team-high four goals.
• Jemma Woods has been in goal for all 687:46 of play. She owns a .701 save percentage and a 2.27 goals against average with 61 saves and 26 goals against.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE WILDCATS

• UAlbany holds a 16-13 lead over New Hampshire in the all-time series.
• Their last meeting resulted in a 1-0 victory at New Hampshire in the spring of 2021. Former Great Dane Hanna Zarrilli scored the lone goal, unassisted.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Maine leads the America East with a 3-0 record, followed closely by California at 2-0. The two will face off on October 8 in Orono, Maine.
• Stanford currently sits third in the conference with a 2-1 record.
• UAlbany in fourth with a 1-1 record.
• UMass Lowell, UC Davis, New Hampshire and Vermont opened the conference season 1-2.
• Monmouth is still looking for an America East win.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEKEND
Friday

• UMass Lowell at Monmouth, 2 pm
• UC Davis at Vermont, 2pm
• Stanford at UAlbany, 2pm
• California at Maine, 3pm

Sunday

• Stanford at Monmouth, 11am
• California at Vermont, 12pm
• New Hampshire at UAlbany, 1pm
• UC Davis at Maine, 1pm

 
UP NEXT

• The Great Danes will head on the road for the next two weeks, heading to Massachusetts to face UMass Lowell first on October 15.

For more information on the University at Albany field hockey team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanyfh
Instagram - @ualbanyfh
Facebook – facebook.com/UAlbanyFH