ALBANY, N.Y. - The UAlbany field hockey team readies for a split weekend, hosting Hofstra and visiting Cornell.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
Hofstra at UAlbany
DATE: Friday, September 8
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: Alumni Turf - Albany, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 1-2, 0-0 America East; Hofstra 2-2, 0-0 CAA
SERIES RECORD: 10-1, UAlbany leads
STREAM: AE.TV
STATS: UAlbanySports.com
 
UAlbany at Cornell
DATE: Sunday, September 10
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: Dodson Field - Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 1-2, 0-0 America East; Cornell 0-0, 0-0 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: 9-3, UAlbany leads
STREAM: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
 
*records as of 9.2
 
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

• The Great Danes hosted #7 Iowa for a Sunday afternoon contest on September 3.
• Despite possession being close with a slight advantage in shots for the Hawkeyes (9-7), the top-10 team took a 3-0 win.
• In the most recent NFHCA poll (released on Tuesday, September 5), the Hawkeyes have been voted as the number one team in the nation.

 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• UAlbany opened the season with a tough schedule and are 1-2 on the season.
• After starting with a 3-2 loss in double overtime to UMass, currently ranked 20th on the NFHCA poll, the Great Danes tallied a 5-0 shutout over Stonehill (Aug. 27).
• Most recently, UAlbany fell to the current number one team in the country - Iowa - on Sunday (Sept. 3).
• Four Great Danes lead with four points - senior Charlotte Triggs, sophomore Sophia Schoonmaker, and junior Blanca Orsola and Alison Smisdom.
• Triggs and Schoonmaker hold a team-high two goals each while Smisdom and Orsola have worked for two assists and one goal each.
• In goal, graduate student Hannah Mangan and junior Lara Behn have shared time with Mangan getting all three starts. Mangan holds the slight lead in time in net with 101 minutes to Behn's 85.

 
ON THE NATIONAL STAGE

• The Great Danes have three student-athletes currently ranked in the national (NCAA Division I) stats:
  1. Blanca Orsola
     1. T37th - 0.67 assists per game
  2. Alison Smisdom
     1. T37th - 0.67 assists per game
  3. Hannah Mangan
     1. 38th - 1.768 goals against average

 
IN THE AMERICA EAST

• The Great Danes have leaders in each of the six offensive and two goalie stat categories:
  1. Shots/Game
     1. 5th - 4.33 - Alison Smisdom
     2. T17th - 1.67 - Charlotte Triggs
  2. Shots on Goal/Game
     1. 9th - 2.33 - Alison Smisdom
     2. 22nd - 1.33 - Sophia Schoonmaker
  3. Goals/Game
     1. T17th - 0.667 - Sophia Schoonmaker, Charlotte Triggs
  4. Assists/Game
     1. T10th - 1.0 - Alison Smisdom, Blanca Orsola
  5. Points/Game
     1. T10th - 1.33 - Sophia Schoonmaker, Blanca Orsola, Charlotte Triggs, Alison Smisdom
     2. T13th - 1.5 - Axelle Werbrouck
  6. Game-Winning Goals
     1. T2nd - 1 - Blanca Orsola
  7. Goals Against Average
     1. 1st - 1.768 - Hannah Mangan
  8. Save Percentage
     1. 5th - .625 - Hannah Mangan

 
WORK AS A TEAM, WIN AS A TEAM

• In the nation, UAlbany ranks:
  1. T21st - 2.33 assists per game
  2. T24th - 7.00 points per game
  3. T28th - 2.33 goals per game
  4. 38th - 0.31 scoring margin
• The Great Danes' rank in the conference:
  1. 2nd - 1.88 goals against average
  2. T3rd - 7.0 points per game
  3. 4th - 2.3 assists per game

 
ABOUT HOFSTRA

• The Pride opened the season with two split weekends for a 2-2 record.
• Starting with Merrimack (Aug. 26), Hofstra tallied an 8-0 shutout before falling 4-0 to Fairfield (Aug. 29).
• Most recently, the Pride defeated Wagner (Sept.1) in a 2-0 shutout and fell to Lehigh (Sept. 3).
• Five Pride members are tied with a team-high four points - McNally, Penaloza, Richardson, Spera, Vetter.
• Of the above five, all but Richardson own two goals each.
• Richardson leads the team with four assists.
• Teresa Karoff has tallied the team's lone defensive save.
• Both goalkeepers have shared time in net with two starts each - Hella Vorpagel leads with 135 minutes while Pieke Roos owns 105. Vorpagel played for the entirety of one shutout while the goalies share the second.

SERIES AGAINST THE PRIDE

• The Great Danes hold a 10-1 lead in the all-time series.
• Most recently having met in the delayed spring 2021 season, UAlbany notched a two-goal shutout on March 14, 2021 (opening week).
• Current Great Danes Hannah Mangan and Charlotte Triggs were in the starting lineup with Jannelle Volk seeing time as a substitute.
• The contest was Mangan's first career shutout.

 
ABOUT CORNELL

• The Big Red opened the 2023 campaign against Syracuse on Wednesday, September 6 with a 4-2 loss.
• Caroline Ramsey scored both Cornell goals with Julia Ramsey assisting on both.
• Claire Wolfe and Sarah Rogalski each added as an assist on the stick-stop goals.
• The Orange outshot the Big Red, 19-4, with just three goals. In what proved to be the game-winning goal, Syracuse made a successful penalty stroke attempt.

SERIES AGAINST THE BIG RED

• UAlbany leads the all-time series, 9-3.
• The two teams have gone head-to-head twice in the last two years with the Great Danes taking both one-goal victories.
• In 2021, Charlotte Triggs was the lone goal-scorer in the 1-0 decision.
• Former Great Dane Elaina Burchell and Blanca Orsola combined for the first goal against the Big Red in 2022. Alison Smisdom made a successful penalty stroke goal for the go-ahead, and eventual game-winning, goal on September 11, 2022.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• New Hampshire leads the conference with a 3-1 record while UMass Lowell follows with one less win.
• Three teams sit at an even .500 (2-2) - Bryant, Maine, and Vermont.
• UAlbany, California, and UC Davis are tied with one win but the Great Danes hold the edge with two losses to the Golden Bears' three and the Aggies' five.
• Stanford rounds out the conference on the hunt for its first win (0-3).

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Friday
  1. California at LIU Brooklyn, 2 pm
  2. Hofstra at UAlbany, 2 pm
  3. Northwestern at Maine, 2 pm
  4. Richmond at Stanford, 2 pm
  5. Merrimack at Bryant, 3 pm
  6. New Hampshire at Providence, 4 pm
• Saturday
  1. UMass Lowell at Central Michigan, 2 pm
  2. California at Stonehill, 2 pm
• Sunday
  1. Boston U at Vermont, 12 pm
  2. Bryant at Quinnipiac, 12 pm
  3. UMass Lowell at Iowa, 12:30 pm
  4. UMass at Maine, 1 pm
  5. Stanford at Ohio State, 1 pm
  6. UAlbany at Cornell, 2 pm
  7. Richmond at UC Davis, 3 pm
• Tuesday
  1. Stanford at Michigan State, 1 pm

 
UP NEXT: The Great Danes will head out of town and head south for a contest against Towson (Sept. 16) and Drexel (Sept. 17).
 
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