Soccer | 9/23/2015 6:36:00 PM
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Live Video (When available)MOORHEAD, Minn. — For the second straight week, the Minnesota State University Moorhead women's soccer team will hit the road for a pair of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference matches. The Dragons will play at Augustana (S.D.) for an 11 a.m. game on Saturday and then will conclude the weekend with a 1 p.m. game Sunday at Wayne State.
MSUM and Augustana will meet for a 15th time with the Vikings holding a 13-1 series lead. The Dragons will meet Wayne State for an 18th time with the Wildcats holding an 11-6-1 series lead. MSUM won the latest meeting, 2-1 in 2014.
The Dragons (1-2-2, 1-2 NSIC) dropped a pair of road games last weekend, falling 1-0 at Minnesota Duluth on Saturday and falling 4-0 at St. Cloud State on Sunday. opened NSIC play with a 1-0 win over Northern State on Sept. 13.
Junior forwards
Sienna Rebollozo and
Jessica Johnson each have scored goals this season for MSUM while senior forward
Lindsey Micheletti has two assists. Johnson leads with 18 shots while sophomore
Mackenzie Carlson has 12.
Senior goalkeeper
Ashley Leintz has 49 saves in five games and has a 0.96 goals allowed average. Leintz has a .907 save percentage and two shutouts.
Rollie Bulock is in his 17th season as MSUM's head coach.
About AugustanaAugustana is 4-1-1 overall and 2-0-1 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Vikings went 1-0-1 on the road last weekend, tying Upper Iowa, 1-1 before beating Winona State, 1-0. Samanta Tymkowicz leads the Vikings with five goals and 11 points, while Stephanie Stevens has two goals, a team-high three assists and seven points. Seven different Viking players have scored goals this season. At goalkeeper, Taylor Machacek is 4-1-1 and has 27 saves in six games. She has three shutouts. Brandon Barkus is in his 10th season as Augustana's head coach with a record of 85-76-16 at the school.
About Wayne StateWayne State is 0-4-2 overall and 0-3-0 in the NSIC. The Wildcats, who will face Northern State prior to facing MSUM, opened the season with back-to-back ties before dropping four games in a row. Four different Wildcats have scored goals this season: Josie Brown, Christina Stasi, Carys Hund and Bryana Garcia. Brown leads with three points and also leads the team in shots (29) and shots on goal (15). Goalkeeper Kylie Comba has 49 saves in six games; she has a 1.86 goals allowed average. Bruce Erickson, the former head coach at Division I Creighton, is in his first season as Wayne State's head coach.
Leintz Climbing the ChartsSenior goalkeeper
Ashley Leintz continues to climb the charts in career saves. Entering this week, she had registered 294 career saves and trails all-time leader Alison Wanner by 104 with 12 regular-season games remaining this season. Her 8.9 saves per game are the most of any goalkeeper in MSUM history.
