ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany field hockey team heads on the road for its first America East game of the season
 
Masks are not required outdoors at Vermont.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Vermont
DATE: Sunday, September 26
TIME: 3:00 PM
SITE: Moulton Winder Field - Burlington, Vt.
RECORDS: UAlbany 3-5, 0-0 America East; Vermont 6-2, 0-0 America East
SERIES RECORD: 22-5, UAlbany leads
STREAM: AE.TV
STATS: UVMAthletics.com
 
*records as of 9/22
 
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).
• Most recently, the Great Danes beat Cornell, 1-0, on Sept. 17 before falling 4-1 against No. 1 Michigan (Sept. 18). 
• Senior Robyn Murray scored the first goal of the season on August 27.
• Alison Smisdom leads the team with 15 points from six goals and three assists. The freshman scored her first career hat trick at Wagner and has earned at least one point in all but one game on the season.
• Sophomore Lara Mortz followed with two goals and three assists for seven points.
• Senior Elaina Burchell and sophomore Charlotte Triggs follow in a close third with six points from two goals and two assists. 
• The Smisdom-Mortz duo has combined for four goals with Smisdom scoring three and Mortz tallying the fourth.
• 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 .667 save percentage and a 2.04 goals against average in 323:55. Senior Sheridan Messier and junior Hannah Mangan each spent 75 minutes in goal.
• The Great Danes have totaled 111 shots and 55 penalty corners in six games.

 
ABOUT VERMONT

• The Catamounts opened the season with a shutout victory against Sacred Heart (8/28).
• After falling in two straight games, against No. 14 Syracuse (8/29) and UMass (9/3), Vermont has won its last five games - Holy Cross (9/7), Hofstra (9/10), Brown (9/12), Dartmouth (9/18) and Bryant (9/19).
• The Catamounts will open AE play against Stanford on Friday (Sept. 24) before hosting the Great Danes.
• Clodagh Ferry leads the team with 12 points from five goals and two assists.
• Puck Kwaspen holds the team-high with six assists.
• Eleven Catamount players have tallied at least one point in the pre-conference season.
• Sierra Espeland has seen all 468 minutes in goal for Vermont. She owns a .717 save percentage and a 1.92 goals against average.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE CATAMOUNTS

• UAlbany holds a 22-5 lead over Vermont in the all-time series.
• The Great Danes currently hold a 12-game win streak that has lasted since 2009. 
• Charlotte Triggs, a current sophomore, scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win in Burlington for their last meeting during the 2020-21 season. 

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Monmouth held its position at number 20 in the latest NFHCA poll.
• UMass Lowell leads the America East with four wins and one loss for a .800 win percentage. 
• Vermont (.750) and Monmouth (.625) follow to close out the top-three with their respective win percentages.
• California and UC Davis round out the AE teams with winning records (4-3).
• Maine (3-5), UAlbany (3-5), Stanford (1-2), and New Hampshire (2-5) round out the conference.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEKEND
Friday

• California at New Hampshire, 3 pm
• Monmouth at Maine, 3 pm
• Stanford at Vermont, 3 pm
• UC Davis at UMass Lowell, 7 pm

Sunday

• California at UMass Lowell, 12 pm
• UC Davis at New Hampshire, 12 pm
• Stanford at Maine, 12 pm
• UAlbany at Vermont, 3 pm

 
UP NEXT

• The Great Danes host two games to open the month of October. Maine will visit for a Friday America East match before UNC will clash with UAlbany on Sunday.