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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University women's soccer team begins NCAA Tournament play against West Chester on the campus of Slippery Rock in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania 1:00 p.m. Thursday at Egli Field.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The Slippery Rock University Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics
Video: Live streaming video will be available for the NCAA Tournament game courtesy of SRU.
RECORDS
The Mountain Lions enter the NCAA Atlantic Regional Tournament as the three seed and a record of 19-1 overall.
West Chester is seeded sixth in this year's field with a mark of 12-5-2.
HIGH HONORS
On Wednesday, Concord had six players named to the D2CCA All-Atlantic Region Team with four players landing on the first team and two more on the second team. Sophomore forward
Leah Foster became the program's first ever regional player of the year as she enters the NCAA Tournament tied for 11
th in Division II in points with 44. Freshman forward
Rachel Bell, junior defender
Morgan Carmichael and junior midfielder
Mira Kontio made the All-Atlantic Region First Team along with Foster. Junior defender
Alyssa Mahar and junior midfielder
Yasmin Mosby made the All-Atlantic Region Second Team. The six all-region selections for Concord are the most in program history for a single season.
Carmichael is the only repeat all-region selection from last season as she was voted second team all-region in 2019.
LATE HEROICS
In three of the last four games, Concord has scored the game-winning goal in the 64
th minute of later. Two of the goals have come by Mosby as she has fired the game-winning shots against Fairmont State in the Mountain East Conference Championship Game in the 64
th while also tallying a goal in the 103
rd minute against Notre Dame in the final home game of the regular season. Kontio had a game-winning goal in the 73
rd minute versus NDC in the MEC Semifinals. Meanwhile, Bell enters the tournament with five game-winning goals this season which is tied for 23
rd in Division II.
LET'S GET DEFENSIVE
Concord's defense will be put to the test on Thursday, having allowed just seven goals in 20 games, the Mountain Lions face a West Chester team that has scored 40 goals in 19 games. CU ranks third in Division II in goals-against average at 0.34 with two all-region defenders in Carmichael and Mahar. Sophomore defender
Leigh Wightman and junior goalkeeper
Katie Maher make up the rest of the CU defense that did not give up a goal in the MEC Tournament and only allowed nine total shots to Notre Dame and Fairmont State. Concord goes up against WCU's Jenny Bail who was named to the All-Atlantic First Team as a forward as well as Hannah Zach who enters the NCAA Tournament with 11 goals.
THE TOUGHEST DIVISION
Entering the NCAA Tournament with a 14-game winning streak, CU faces a West Chester team that played in the rugged PSAC East that features four of the six teams in this year's NCAA Tournament including top-seeded Bloomsburg as well as East Stroudsburg and Millersville. The Golden Rams upended Bloomsburg in the PSAC Quarterfinals to help them advance to the NCAA Tournament. West Chester also tied Bloomsburg during the regular season. Meanwhile, the Mountain Lions and their 19-1 record is the best in the Atlantic Region entering the tournament.
WEST CHESTER AT A GLANCE
Head coach Betty Ann Kempf Townsley has made the NCAA Tournament in all 13 of her seasons in charge of the WCU program. Along with Bail and Zach, Katie Crouthamel also poses a scoring threat as she has tallied six goals to match Bail. West Chester fell in the PSAC Semifinals to eventual runner-up Edinboro. However, the Golden Rams are returning to Slippery Rock for the second time in as many weeks as SRU hosted the PSAC Semifinals. WCU is 6-4 away from home this season.
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