Katie Maher
Katie Maher

Concord Hosts Regular Season Finale Against Charleston

10/26/2018 11:38:00 AM

Concord Stats - Charleston Stats - Live Stats - Live Video

ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University women's soccer team hosts Charleston for Mountain East Conference play at 1:00 p.m. Sunday for its Breast Cancer Awareness Day at Anderson Field. All fans are encouraged to wear pink.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The Concord University Sports Information Department provides live in-game statistics for the contest between the teams.
Video: Live streaming video will also be available from the Concord Sports Information Department.
 
RECORDS
Concord is 10-4-2 overall and 8-3-1 conference.

Charleston is 9-7-1 overall and 8-3-1 conference.

POSTSEASON SCENARIOS
CU has already secured a spot in the upcoming MEC Tournament that starts Tuesday. And it is also guaranteed that Concord will meet Charleston in the first round, but Sunday's game will determine location.

With a win or tie versus UC, the Mountain Lions would host Charleston in the MEC Tournament's First Round, but a loss on Sunday to the Golden Eagles would send Concord to Charleston for Tuesday's match up.

MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
Concord picked up its 10th win of the season Wednesday against Urbana after a 5-1 win. This is the second consecutive 10-win season for Concord since the seasons of 2008 and 2009.

Concord had five different players score each of the goals during the contest. Sophomore midfielder Yasmin Mosby tallied her second goal of the season. It was the second straight game in which Mosby has scored.

Freshman forward Maggie Hall rounded out the match with her fourth career goal.

Fellow freshman forward Leah Foster and sophomore midfielder Courtney Wallace both scored their seventh goal of the season during the contest.

Senior forward Pilar Elias scored her tenth goal of the season. Elias is the first Concord player since 2009 with ten goals in one season.

After the MEC contest against Urbana, Concord leads conference with 51 goals. West Virginia Wesleyan is close behind with 49. Additionally, the 51 goals are the most for the Maroon and Gray since they scored 67 in 2009. And the Mountain Lions are tied for eighth nationally in goals scored this season.

The last three games between the Mountain Lions and Charleston have resulted in a 1-0 scores. UC won last season at home, but Concord has won the last two games in double overtime. Elias has been responsible has been scored the lone goal in both instances. Wallace assisted on Elias' game winner in 2017 at Anderson Field while Foster set up the Elias score earlier this season on the road with less than 90 seconds left in the contest.

Sophomore goalkeeper Katie Maher has been responsible for two shutouts against Charleston in her career. Over that time, Maher has spent 211 minute in net for the Mountain Lions, making eight saves. The Blackburn, England native is on pace to become the first goaltender in program history to finish with a goals against average (GAA) below. Maher's current GAA is 0.91.

The closest any Concord goalkeeper came to recording a GAA below one for a season was Kimberly Chipps in 2002 with a 1.01 GAA.

 CHARLESTON AT A GLANCE
Keira Hill has nine goals in the MEC for the Golden Eagles.

Goalkeepers Kaylee Hensley and Carol Burgess have collectively made 74 saves for UC.

Six of the nine wins for Charleston have been shutouts.
 
 
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