ALBANY, N.Y. - The UAlbany field hockey team will continue conference play this weekend hosting Maine.
In honor of her induction into the UAlbany Hall of Fame, the Great Danes will be welcoming Corrine McConville with a small ceremony ahead of the contest.
GAME INFORMATION
Maine at #19 UAlbany
DATE: Friday, September 29
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: Alumni Turf - Albany, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 6-3, 2-0 America East; Maine 4-5, 2-1 America East
SERIES RECORD: 18-16, UAlbany leads
STREAM:
AE.TV
STATS:
UAlbanySports.com
*records as of 9.28
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW
- Winning 2-1 in overtime, the Great Danes hosted California on Friday.
- Assisted by junior Blanca Orsola, senior Charlotte Triggs scored the first goal of the contest.
- Junior Alison Smisdom notched the game-winning goal just over 90 seconds into overtime action. She was assisted by freshman Mara Küskes for the penalty-corner score.
- In its second match, UAlbany traveled to Bryant for a 4-2 victory (Sept. 24).
- Smisdom scored twice with graduate student Delphine Le Juene and redshirt-junior Jannelle Volk adding a goal. Küskes tallied two assists with Orsola adding a stick stop for a corner-goal assist.
GREAT DANE REWIND
- Starting the year with a 3-2 loss in double overtime to UMass, the Great Danes answered with a shutout win over Stonehill (Aug. 27).
- UAlbany fell to the current number-one team in the nation, Iowa (Sept. 3).
- The Great Danes won back-to-back games against Hofstra (Sept. 8) and Cornell (Sept. 10).
- UAlbany split the weekend defeating Towson (Sept. 16) before falling to Drexel in shootouts (Sept. 17).
- Most recently, the Great Danes won their first two conference games with an overtime victory against California (Sept. 22) and a two-goal win over Bryant (Sept. 24).
- Alison Smisdom leads the team with 25 points and 11 goals.
- Holding a team-high six assists, Mara Küskes trails Smisdom with one goal and eight points.
- Seeing a wide range of Great Danes contributing to the score, half of the field players have notched at least one goal or assist.
- In goal, junior Lara Behn leads with a 1.27 goals against average and a .737 save percentage in 472 minutes. Graduate student Hannah Mangan follows with 2.06 goals against average and a .556 save percentage in 117 minutes.
FIRST POINTS
- Jannelle Volk scored her first career goal against Bryant on Sunday.
ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
- The Great Danes have four student-athletes currently ranked in the national (NCAA Division I) stats:
- Alison Smisdom
- T3rd - 1.22 goals per game
- 5th - 2.78 points per game
- Mara Küskes
- T10th - 0.67 assists per game
- Lara Behn
- T1st - 1.000 goalie win-loss percentage
- 18th - 1.271 goals against average
- 27th - .737 save percentage
- Blanca Orsola
- T23rd - 0.56 assists per game
IN THE AMERICA EAST
- The Great Danes have leaders in each of the seven offensive and four goalie stat categories:
- Shots/Game
- Shots on Goal/Game
- Goals/Game
- Assists/Game
- Points/Game
- Game-Winning Goals/Game
- Defensive Saves
- Goals Against Average
- Save Percentage
- Shutouts/Game
- Saves Per Game
WORK AS A TEAM, WIN AS A TEAM
- In the nation, UAlbany ranks:
- 8th - 8.44 penalty corners per game
- T16th - 2.78 goals per game
- T17th - 7.56 points per game
- T18 - .677 win percentage
- 19th - 2.53 scoring average
- T21th - 2 defensive saves
- 21st - 1.01 scoring margin
- T22nd - 0.22 shutouts per game
- T28th - 2.00 assists per game
- T47th - .700 save percentage
- The Great Danes' rank in the conference:
- 2nd - 1.67 goals against average
- 2nd - 15.33 shots per game
- 2nd - 10.00 shots on goal per game
- 3rd - 2.778 - goals per game
- 3rd - 7.56 - points per game
- 3rd - 2.778 scoring average
ABOUT MAINE
- The Black Bears began the year with a 4-5 record and are 2-1 in conference.
- Maine started the season falling to #17 Boston College (Aug. 25) then shutting out Providence (Aug. 27).
- Splitting the weekend, the Black Bears fell to Boston U. (Sept. 1) before they defeated Ohio (Sept. 3).
- After Maine lost consecutive matches to #3 Northwestern (Sept. 8) and #20 UMass (Sept. 10), they defeated UC Davis (Sept. 15) and Stanford (Sept. 17) to begin conference play.
- Most recently, the Black Bears were shut out by UMass Lowell, 4-0 (Sept. 22).
- Mallory Mackesy leads the team with 10 goals and 23 points.
- Tereza Holubcova holds the team-high in assists with four.
- Mallory Drayer has started every game in goal for the Black Bears. She boasts a .641 save percentage and a 2.40 goals against average.
SERIES AGAINST THE BLACK BEARS
- UAlbany leads the all-time series, 18-16.
- In the most recent contest, UAlbany lost in shootouts, on September 25, 2022. Returning student-athlete Floor de Ruiter notched the only Great Dane goal in regulation.
- The Great Danes last beat Maine in the 2018 AE Championship title game.
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST
- New Hampshire, UMass Lowell, and UAlbany sit at the top of the table after remaining undefeated in conference play.
- Maine trails with a 2-1 conference record.
- Vermont sits with a .500 league record (1-1) while UC Davis follows with a 1-2 AE record.
- Bryant, California, and Stanford round out the league still looking for their first conference win.
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK
- Friday
- Bryant at New Hampshire, 2 pm
- Maine at UAlbany, 2 pm
- Vermont at UMass Lowell, 3 pm
- Stanford at California, 7 pm
- Sunday
- Vermont at Boston College, 12 pm
- Bucknell at UMass Lowell, 12 pm
- Maine at Hofstra, 12 pm
- New Hampshire at Dartmouth, 1 pm
- California at Stanford, 3 pm
UP NEXT: Taking on UC Davis (Oct. 6) and Stanford (Oct. 8), the Great Danes will host the entirety of next weekend.
For more information on the University at Albany field hockey team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanyfh
Instagram & Threads - @ualbanyfh
Facebook – facebook.com/UAlbanyFH
